A Brief Thought for Monday
Monday 19 May 2008
Sometime in the future, I’d like to walk into a car dealership wearing my typical getup and announce that I to buy a car. It’s important that I wear what I usually do for this, because I want to see the look on the dealer’s face when he goes to check my credit. More precisely, I want to watch his face go from swarmy grin to a look of sheer confusion and terror as he realizes that the person sitting across from him (That’s me), who looks like he couldn’t land a job at McDonald’s, has good enough credit to not only buy a car, but the entire flippin’ dealership, if he were so inclined.
Discuss.
Oh my, what got you so upset?
Believe it or not, nothing at all! I’m just thinking back to a story my former neighbor (Tony) told years ago where he did more or less the same thing. I don’t know if it was precisely what he was going for or not, but the dealer supposedly told him “Are you *&^*#ing me?!” when he checked Tony’s credit and found it to be in the top percentile in the entire country.
Speaking of which, I should probably check my credit report sometime soon. I hope it’s as good as Vegeta’s (Even if his understanding of mathematical ranges needs some work).
OK. Maybe your former neighbor did that when he certainly (shall we say) wasn’t dehydrated.
I bet unless you go to a really shady car dealership place, they’d probably treat you fairly well no matter what. A friend I had who worked in a dealership mentioned that they tend to focus more on how well-spoken you (a sign of being educated) than how you dress when assessing a possible sale. Also what kind of cars you’re looking for; if you’re hunting for say a Ford Taurus, it’s no where as suspicious as if you were looking at Hummers.
Plus at this point, with our awful economy they’d be happy to sell you a pencil!