Here’s something fun. I have to turn in my Explorer. The Ford dealership I bought my car from has been calling and leaving messages telling me to get ahold of them to figure out what it is I’m going to get into, after I turn in my truck. Yesterday, they called and I was home. When I got on the phone, the lady I was speaking to wasn’t very friendly. She actually seemed annoyed. She said that she was calling about my truck. I told her that I would like to make an appointment to turn it in on Thursday. She told me that they were really busy, and Thursday didn’t look good. I said fine, when would be good then. After a “sigh” she said she would check. While she was looking through her book, she muttered “you already have a new car right?”

I said “no I don’t”.

“Oh, really?” she says. “Oh, well what were you thinking about getting?” All of a sudden, she was a friggin ray of sunshine. Not only did her demeanor do a 180, but miraculously an opening on thursday popped up! Go fucking figure. Take some advice from me, if you’re turning in a car and you have a new one already, don’t tell them that. Tell them you have no idea what to get, and will see your salesman after you turn your car in, and you should get treated like you should have been to begin with.