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While Victoria was at the BYU football game in Austin, Ron and I did the one thing in life, we dislike the most...we were busy car shopping. We can't stand going into car dealerships and being lied to by salesmen. We much prefer purchasing vehicles off of Craigslist. Unfortunately, we couldn't find anything we liked on CL, but we did find many cars on the dealership websites, and finally narrowed it down to about 8 cars/SUVs. Of course when we went to the dealership, none of the cars they had online {to suck you in} were available. We then spent about two hours listening to sales pitches and "what they can do for us, because they want us to walk out a happy customer". {Barf}. We found two cars we liked, and then we needed to leave. Brianne and Tiffany were participating in the Lest We Forget concert in the children's choir and it was getting late. Of course the salesman was begging us not to leave. I told him if he had a better deal for us, possibly we would come back later or next week.
Well, he immediately pulled the old trick, "well, if you want this car, you'd better buy it now. See that couple over there, they really want the car, and are going to buy it, if you walk out now." Whatever! Then the sales guy even went to the extent of having one of his partners walk in and ask for the car keys and he apprehensively handed them over to the guy. HAHA! It was great acting! Anyway, we still left.
About 8:45pm we received a phone call from the salesman asking if we were going to come back and look at the cars again. I told him probably not. Well, really we were, but I didn't want to come across desperate. We knew the dealership closed on Saturday at 9pm, so we walked in at 8:55pm. They were desperate to go home, but were also desperate to make a deal. So, to say the least, we walked out of the dealership with a car for Tori, and paid what we wanted to pay, not their rip-off price! I love negotiating with desperate car salesman after closing hours on a Saturday night! {evil laugh here.}
We knew Tori was going to be home around 1:00am from the game. So we quickly made a hot pink glitterized poster and printed letters to say "Happy Sweet 16 Tori!". We then tried a big purple bow around the car! It looked so cute!
We then sat and waited! Oh, that clock moved so slow! We did pass the time by watching the BYU game we had DVR'd! What a great game! Too bad we lost.
About 1:15am we saw head lights out front of our home. Of course we all leaped up and ran outside to watch Tori's surprise!
She had been asleep on the way home from Austin, and was still a little sleepy when they pulled up. Then her friend said,"Oh my gosh Tori you got a car!!!". Well that woke Tori up, and she jumped out of the vehicle and just had a huge smile on her face and ran towards her new car! She stood next to it and stared, in unbelief! It was just awesome to see how shocked she was!
What a fun family memory! Happy Sweet 16 Tori!
Tori running to her new car!
2008 Nissan Altima - Black
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