So this is our strategy right now. I contacted a sales rep. at the competing dealership just up the road from the one where we weren’t able to get financing. We’re going to meet with the new salesman Wed. evening to see where we stand. If we get financed, it means we’re settling for a fifth wheel that is a year older, two feet shorter, and two thousand dollars more expensive than the one we were turned down for. Lex would also contend that it is ugly because the interior is Williamsburg blue. Sexy, right? But it’s got a KILLER kitchen (galley-style with a bigger oven than the other, corian counters, and a countertop extension. But it doesn’t have the built-in desk or the fireplace that the other one has. But hey, if we can get it, I’m down with it. It’s comfortable, and it’s the same make and model as our first choice.
Lex says that if financing doesn’t work out on the second attempt, she’d rather stay here another year and try again later when we’re in a better place financially. She doesn’t want to get into some fifteen year old trailer with no warranty only to find us stuck in the middle of winter with a furnace that has gone out. Yes, that’s all rational and stuff, but I have really had it with this complex.
I’ve gotten her to agree that if this deal doesn’t work out, she’ll let me spend my downpayment money on a little micro-camper like this one or this one or even this one. These are so light I can pull them with my car! It would just need a hitch, and U-Haul can hook me up with that for a couple hundred bucks. This would allow us to pack up, grab the dogs, and get out of town whenever we wanted to. The kicker with these is that these itty bitty trailers are usually not plumbed for a toilet. Some of them do have room for a porta-potty, though. The newer ones have A/C, heat, fridge, stove, interior lights, and electric brakes. The older ones usually don’t have the heating or the cooling, and the REALLY old ones sometimes have ice boxes instead of refrigerators. But they are cute. Like fluffy bunny in a pink tutu cute. What can I say? I’m a big woman with a fetish for tiny vehicles. My dream cars are a classic VW Beetle and a Smart Car ForTwo. It stands to reason that a 10′ long, 1000 lb. travel trailer that looks like a canned ham on wheels would appeal to me.
So now we wait until Wednesday to hear about whether or not we’ll be able to buy our second choice of RV. Gods but I hate waiting. It’s what I do worst.
Tomorrow is the White Elephant sale at school, and I’m ready. I have bag upon bag of books, vhs tapes, CDs, and DVDs ready to sell CHEAP! I’ve decided to donate 1/4th of whatever I earn tomorrow to the CCBC Scholarship Foundation. That way I don’t feel like such a greasy heel for pimping out all my old stuff at school. It’s for a good cause after all…or something.
