My sister has been looking for a good used car for a while and we thought we found one that would suit her purposes but some troubles with the concept of haggling led to us letting the car go.  You see, it’s in my parents’ blood to bargain and to ‘talk price’ back and forth with someone.  When buying from a person and not a store, you must haggle…if you ever want to sell something to my mom, please mark the price up or you’ll ruin her fun.  Anyway, after losing that car, my sister was livid.  Irate.  Sulky.

After some false re-starts in the used car buying domain, we found another car that looked good, even better than the first.  Again it came down to haggling and again my mom made an offer that made my sister gnash her teeth.  She actually called me at a party to shriek in dismay that we were losing yet another car [granted it had never been ours to begin with].  Anyhow, we decided it was too good to let go and behold, our oldenew auto:

 

and my sister with said auto:

I think the plan is for all four of us children to learn to drive in the car and for it to be a secondary auto.  I’m sort of interested in seeing how it’ll all work out [four siblings, one automobile, different ideas of what constitutes "clean" or "full tank"].  I’m looking forward to getting my license, maybe even before the snow comes, in the car.  We’ll see.

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