Car Chronicles: Part Six: Someday Our Yaris Will Come

So we thought we were picking up the Yaris on Friday, after Wednesday’s cancellation when they discovered that they were missing air conditioning parts. We had our fingers crossed, but alas. Still no Yaris. Hubby is getting a bit antsy in the pantsy.

So we wait, and wait. We are moving into week three now. On Friday, my hubby was like, “Hey, let’s go to Mazda!” I was a bit tired from laying cement sidewalk blocks and was like, “Groan.”

So, we went to Mazda. And we drooled over the sexy Mazda 3 sedan. Sexy, baby! And then we test drove it. Humuna, humuna. Very cool car! I LOVE the way it drives. We seriously contemplated dropping the Yaris (they haven’t even taken our deposit over at Toyota). But, it comes down to money. Do we want to spend $21,000 (plus 6% GST) on a new car? No. That’s why we went with the Yaris, because you got a new car for a used price. So, to spend an extra 5-6 grand for a nicer car is tempting, but then you think, well, this is actually a third of another Yaris and the Yaris is more economical and the government will give us a grand back when we buy it because of its ‘greenness’. And well, we are cheap buggers.

So, life lesson: don’t go test a nicer car when you’ve already decided on a basic, economical one. Especially when the little things that we weren’t thrilled about in the Yaris, the Mazda had.

Oh well. Maybe next week we’ll get the Yaris. (Hope so, dad takes his car back so we’ll be back down to one.) And did I mention that irony of ironies…the Shadow seems to have a gasket leak? (The Golf had one too.) Argh! It never ends! (And dad’s car seems to have developed a tire leak.) I think I am cursed.

Side note: Dad is at Grandma’s cottage and just set up his webcam (and high speed Internet) on his laptop down at the dock. That’s not all. He called us on our computer so we could see him go jump in the river. Just to rub in the fact that he is there and we are here. :)