Are you looking for a Car?

Recently my roomie n'I was in the market looking for an used car. It was an interesting experience ,though at times taxing, over all it was actually fun and enjoyable. I got to learn a lot of things I did not know about cars.

The search criterion were simple and strait forward,

a. The car has got to have a good re-sale value (for us to be able to sell it back)
b. Clear Title.
c. Decent running condition for it's age.
d. Preferably less than a 100K miles.
e. As cheap as possible

With the above in mind we set out to look for the cars. We searched some of the local listings on the popular classifieds web pages made calls and set times to go see the cars.

Here starts the fun part,

Our first outing, if you will...

It was a Red honda civic cost about $2500,don't know if it was manual or automatic trany. Don't know the milage, don't know the year, the call was made and we were out to see this car, it had snowed heavily the previous day and was still very cold outside. This place was about a 30 mile drive we went there and realized that we did not even have a proper address, we drove by his house for like 3 times before we realized that was the house we were looking for. Actually we realized that only after seeing a guy cleaing his red Honda civic coup.

We approach him introduce ourselves and ask a couple of questions about the car etc. My roomie was like in a deep shock or state of disappointment right form the moment he saw the small civic and it's condition. Anyways we test drive the car and found it gives out a lot of vibration and excused ourselves from there.

Call it the first experience or a lesson, to not look for very cheap cars.

After that we saw quite a few cars but did not like any one of them until finally we came up to this guys house where we saw a Infinity.

We felt like our search has come to an end, we were almost in love with this cars looks. We even likes the small ride we had in this car. So we fixed up a price and wanted to get it to a mechanic for a pre-purchase inspection.

There start our troubles again the owner of this car was in love with his plates and he had removed them for this car and had got the same number transfered to his new car. So with out plates we can not drive this car to a Mechanic. AAA or the dealership guys wouldn't even toe a car with out plates.

Since we couldn't get anyone to at-least go to the car and inspect it we had to drop that car. Luckly we got a camry soon after and my roomie was convinced that this was the car with our names on it. We happily took it to a mechanic who happily inspected it and happily told us that this car was probably not at all maintained in the past 8000 miles or so. Even the oil was not changed. And gave us a big list of what needs attentions and categorized the repairs as

a. required to pass state inspection.
b. required for the car immediately.
c. Need to get attention with in a couple of months.
d. Good to get it done.

And told us it would cost around 2k + to get things in a and b done.

:( not very happy out come after all I and my roomie was devastated, well almost.

Then there came a Turkish Angle, in fact he literally came done himself to show us the car. (as opposed to we going and seeing the car) and we finally bought the car from him after all the checks.

At this time I would be very tempted to say that all is well that ends well but unfortunately I know too much to call this a end. 3 weeks from the date of sale, the car starts to give out a rattling noise and at almost the same time the engine check light come up....

(more about what happens next...to be continued)

Should I care!

As usual, I am late again for my next blog but to me the important thing is that I am writing again. Boy! I love to write as much as I hate to talk ;)... In a way that sentence gives an introduction to the what I am planning to write about today.

I am sure any one reading this bolg already knows and agrees that it is important to have friends in life. Make new friends on hold on to the old ones. That said, how does one make friends in life and for life... What is it that makes a person call another person his/her friend? It is faith? Is it Trust? or is it the comfort that comes from knowing that no matter what, I can depend on this person.

What ever it is, the more important question here is, how does one establish this faith or trust or belief or comfort? I guess the obvious answer is my talking with each other people establish these bond between them. So does that mean that a dumb person can not have any friends?

or was it too dumb a question to ask!!

Anyways I want to say here is that talking to each other is not the only way one can establish these bonds! yes talking is important and if you can talk it probably makes these things happen much faster! If a person doesn't talk a lot or can not talk at all that doesn't mean to say that he/she can not have friends. There are many other forms of communication other than talking.

Sometimes actions speak louder than words!

Personally I feel trusting people is the most difficult thing to do. But when you do decide to trust some one, you will change your thoughts about the person's actions even though he/she doesn't say or explain them in words. Once you start trusting a person your will believe in them and you will try to justify for them and these actions I believe seal the bond of friendship!!

So, SHOULD I CARE what my actions are speaking or how other people are interpreting them. May be or may be not. As I said above, if they trust you then they would want to believe you and they will try to look for a reason to do so and not the other way round.

Come lets be friends!!

you only die once, until them have fun!! :)