Basically it's the concept behind the phrase, "You may not find this funny now, but you'll laugh about this later."
It's like this:
When we were buying a car over the weekend (more on that tomorrow, I think), we were seeing what we could get for our '98 Honda as a trade-in.
We were hoping for a few grand as the car is under 150k miles and we kept it up pretty well and, well, its still running!
Then the dealers all showed us how we'd never be able to sell it for a couple grand...
because the odometer had "potentially" been rolled back.
Why potentially? It was so obvious that it had because the Carfax report showed it having lower mileage in 2004 than when we bought it in 2011.
Either someone rolled it back generously or the car was driven backwards and Ferris Bueller was totally right!
Fast forward to today and we were potentially driving a 200k mile death wagon. I mean, the car would just slow down sometimes for no reason.
Not to mention it rattled over every
Not to mention that the check engine light was on for so long that it eventually went off... like when you're telling a story in a crowded room, everyone sips their drink and looks away, so you eventually stop the futile story mid-sentence.
So the questions that we're all asking can be answered the same way.
Why did we think we were getting any money for this car?
Why didn't we run a Carfax ourselves? (The dealers told us that every yahoo buyer runs a Carfax*)
Why didn't we just ask someone to fit it for a pair of cement tires?
Why were we still driving the Honda death-ccord?
And why didn't we get so mad at the prospect of this car being a total waste of money?
Because it would make a great story for the blog!
And twitter.
One of my favorite tweets from the whole ordeal was when the dealer told us that it would cost them more to take the car to auction than it was worth. Basically, they wanted us to pay them extra just to take the Murder Accord off of our hands.
*Learned our lesson
