July 30, 2004

New Car!

Wow! My parents got me a new car!

I knew that they were shopping for a car for me, and I knew that I was going to have one ready for me when I got home from Southwestern, but I was completely shocked when I found out what they got. They got me a new 2004 Chrysler Pacifica. I have only seen this car a few times before in person.
I am shocked that they did this, because I was totally wanting and expecting a used car. That is pretty much the family policy, in fact. Also, I was thinking we’d get something more affordable like a Hyundai Sante Fe. Finally, I was thinking that they would purchase something that was cheap and easy to insure considering that I have had two wrecks and a ticket in the last month.

This is shocking.

I guess a lot of it had to do with the following considerations that they discussed with me –
1. They are proud of me for graduating
2. I kept my Jeep alive and running longer than anyone in the family has kept a car since the 80’s.
3. I am doing Southwestern, and they realize that it is hard. They are pleased wtih my work ethic out here, and the fact that I was willing to take on and stick with such a huge undertaking.
4. I am going into seminary and they are excited about the prospect of me becoming a pastor.
5. They feel that I may get married sometime soon, and they want me to have a nice car that (knowing how I like to hang onto cars) would last a long time and be useful to someone with a family and (grand)kids.
6. My dad got the car for $22K and only needed to pay about $17K because the insurance on the Jeep.
7. They’ve noticed that in the past three years or so (ever since I started living with Mike Bonestroo, basically) I’ve been taking much better care of the Jeep. So, they feel that I will continue to do that with this new car — especially since I am going to have the title to it in three years.

Final Notes.
OK, I still don’t know much about this car. I know that it is “champagne colored.” I know that my dad didn’t have much choice in the coloring (I told them that I didn’t care about color at all but prefer green, silver, and white) or the options package so it has weird options like a 6-CD changer in the console. (I never listened to CDs until about two weeks ago when I started listening to sermons and Audiobooks in the car.)
That is about all I know about the car at this point. I also know some details that I’ve gleened from the website, but I don’t know what specifications my Pacifica has vs. the others.
Anyway, this is totally cool, totally undeserved, and frankly, it all makes me uncomfortable because I’d prefer to have something more economical and low-key. I guess a minivan/SUV crossover is kinda lowkey, but it is still a $30K car…
Whoa!

Posted by David under Personal News |

2 Comments

  1. Hey - did you notice that the Pacifica has this cool feature:

    LATCH-Ready Child Seat Anchor System
    MSRP: Included
    LATCH-ready child seat anchor system that includes user-ready child seat lower anchors and top tether anchors to minimize the movement of aftermarket child seats for both second-row seating positions and the driver’s side seat in the third row

    Pretty cool eh?? Now you’re all ready to have up to three kids in car seats at a time ;) !

    Comment by Joy — July 31, 2004 @ 12:06 am

  2. There’ll be no talk of kids on this blog! I’m just kidding…lol. That’s interesting…i would have never thought of that quality. Or, if you ever have to transport drunk people then you won’t have to worry about them jumping out of a moving car. That happened to Clarissa when her drunk aunts tried to get out of the car while it was moving. She had to turn the child locks on. So you have that for all the doors. Looks like you’re the designated driver.

    Comment by Jelly Bean — August 1, 2004 @ 3:54 am

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