Foiled!

I think that the gods of transportation must be trying to tell me something. Either that, or I am truly not destined to be successful in my quest to own a car. This afternoon, I finally managed to get myself to the car dealer before it closed, with the intention of test driving a model or two. The sun was shining. I left work on time. Even the employee who deals solely with diplomatic sales was there. What could possibly go wrong? The computer crashed once, but it was successfully rebooted.

Well ... after checking out all the different models available, the pros, the cons, and the price, the salesman told me that it would not be possible to go for a test drive. There just weren't any test-drive models that had been liberated by the factory. It's not that a particular model was out being driven around. It simply did not exist. Added to the situation was the fact that the dealership was having a promotional blitz today with music and dancing teenagers. I imagined that this effort to increase traffic [no pun intended] would at least mean that there would be a model to take for a spin. Ah well! Perhaps next week!