Neanderpundit

I’d love to have one in a little truck but I’m also trying to downgrade the amount of BS I carry withme on a daily basis. So a car would be OK, and I’m SO over changing spark plugs. Trouble is I’m pretty well limited to the offerings of VW, and I am utterly invisible to VW sales staff.

I went to three dealers last night, and in each one there were clearly salesmen, many of them could be seen walking around talking to tye-dyed patchouli scented dirtbags, but despite my size I was apparently impossible to see.

Oh, there was the time in the one dealership that a manager came out and said “Is there something I can help you with?” in the general tone of “The tradesman’s entrance is out back” with a soupçon of “Why do you smell like deodorant?”. When I asked about Jetta and Passat diesels he said “We don’t have any used ones in stock and we usually carry newer cars anyway” like I could somehow not afford a new one, then hurried off. Wasn’t like I was dressed like a bum, or anything. Maybe only well dressed wealthy parents buy them for their trustafarian kids, I dunno. Anyway, I may get one, if I can get a salesman to talk to me.

The company requested we all get phones. They would pay for x amount of usage, and we would pay the balance of the bill. This allowed us to get cool phones. and the company took care of enough of the bill that the cost to us was very minimal.

These days the company provides phones, otherwise I wouldn’t even have one- but back then, having a phone was the hotness- my first phone was a bagphone, which I used a lot, but when the company instituted this policy I went out and got me one of them fancy new Microtac phones. With the extended battery, you could get twenty or thirty minutes of talk time!

And you could store- If memory serves- ten phone numbers!

Alternately, lest anyone laugh at the crudeness of these phones, you could use them in a pinch to hammer in tent pegs and as a close combat weapon.

We had to turn the phones in when we got done with them, so I imagine they’re using them to hammer in tent pegs in China now.

A very interesting video about how doubles are regulated.