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Sep. 1st, 2009 01:23 pmI might freak out. I just sent my dad some more car stuff, and called him to make sure he'd gotten it, and to ask him what he thought. He heard the prices and freaked, and was like, "What happened to our original number?"
And I freaked and was like, "Remember, weeks ago, when you said, 'Well, if we can get a used one for that price, why not just get a new one?'"
So I started looking at new ones, which were a few thousand dollars more, and now he's like, "That's way too expensive! Why don't you look at this car that you've never even thought about and hits none of your main points?"
I want a hatchback with really good gas mileage. And I went and looked, and the car he mentioned starts $3000 more expensive than he named, which means he's back to looking at used cars, even though I know he told me to look at new ones, because there were all sorts of incentive deals and such.
So now I don't know what we're going to do. He said he'd call me tonight, but he never actually follows through on that sort of stuff. I guess I'm going to start looking hard at used versions of the cars I've been looking at again.
I just... I fucking HATE not knowing what I'm doing. And he keeps changing the game on me, so I've never felt good about this decision, pretty much since he offered. Part of me almost wishes I'd just bought a clunker at the beginning of the summer, so I could have gone out to the lake a bunch of times, or gone anywhere this summer. And then I wouldn't have gotten my hopes dashed a dozen times over.
I have to buy a car next week, or I don't have a way home again. He kept saying, "Find the car you want, and we'll make it happen. It's your car, it should be something you really like, don't get something you're not going to like driving." Which... fine, but I also understand working with a budget. Except he kept talking like that, so I assumed as long as I didn't get too out of hand, he was fine for budget. And now... apparently not?
And he also was hinting that I should go car shopping with him this weekend, which I do not have time for. I have plans for the entire weekend, and considering I'm only home for a week, I refuse to scrap any of them. We have plans to car shop during the week. He agreed that was the plan. And now it looks like he wants to change that, too, and I'm honestly a little scared he might just buy me a car on Saturday, without my knowledge. And he'll think it's so cool of him, to just drive up and give me the keys and say, "Hey! It's yours!"
Which, in other circumstances, it totally would be. But not when he asked what I wanted, I told him, and he went and got something completely different because it's what he liked. It's his money, yes. But he's never going to drive it.
I keep trying to tell myself that either way, I'm getting a car out of this deal, and I should just be happy for that. And eventually, I will be. Once I have keys in my hand. But right now, I mostly want to try to do an interpretive dance for my dad, who seems to be confusing, "good gas mileage, hatchback, reliable," with "anything that's kind of small and cute."
And I freaked and was like, "Remember, weeks ago, when you said, 'Well, if we can get a used one for that price, why not just get a new one?'"
So I started looking at new ones, which were a few thousand dollars more, and now he's like, "That's way too expensive! Why don't you look at this car that you've never even thought about and hits none of your main points?"
I want a hatchback with really good gas mileage. And I went and looked, and the car he mentioned starts $3000 more expensive than he named, which means he's back to looking at used cars, even though I know he told me to look at new ones, because there were all sorts of incentive deals and such.
So now I don't know what we're going to do. He said he'd call me tonight, but he never actually follows through on that sort of stuff. I guess I'm going to start looking hard at used versions of the cars I've been looking at again.
I just... I fucking HATE not knowing what I'm doing. And he keeps changing the game on me, so I've never felt good about this decision, pretty much since he offered. Part of me almost wishes I'd just bought a clunker at the beginning of the summer, so I could have gone out to the lake a bunch of times, or gone anywhere this summer. And then I wouldn't have gotten my hopes dashed a dozen times over.
I have to buy a car next week, or I don't have a way home again. He kept saying, "Find the car you want, and we'll make it happen. It's your car, it should be something you really like, don't get something you're not going to like driving." Which... fine, but I also understand working with a budget. Except he kept talking like that, so I assumed as long as I didn't get too out of hand, he was fine for budget. And now... apparently not?
And he also was hinting that I should go car shopping with him this weekend, which I do not have time for. I have plans for the entire weekend, and considering I'm only home for a week, I refuse to scrap any of them. We have plans to car shop during the week. He agreed that was the plan. And now it looks like he wants to change that, too, and I'm honestly a little scared he might just buy me a car on Saturday, without my knowledge. And he'll think it's so cool of him, to just drive up and give me the keys and say, "Hey! It's yours!"
Which, in other circumstances, it totally would be. But not when he asked what I wanted, I told him, and he went and got something completely different because it's what he liked. It's his money, yes. But he's never going to drive it.
I keep trying to tell myself that either way, I'm getting a car out of this deal, and I should just be happy for that. And eventually, I will be. Once I have keys in my hand. But right now, I mostly want to try to do an interpretive dance for my dad, who seems to be confusing, "good gas mileage, hatchback, reliable," with "anything that's kind of small and cute."
