#edit: wait im realizing now that that implies he exploded the car

[hell0mega]

it's so funny to be in an environment that typically hosts people with money when you are not and haven't ever been someone with money. because the people there really do treat you better.

i needed a new car and thankfully my grandfather was willing to help by giving us the 3k for the deposit. that's the only reason why i was able to get a decent (used) car. while we were doing the final paperwork, our salesman and his supervisor rushed over to us and told us something happened to the car and he needed to make sure we were okay with it before we finished signing

so we were expecting the worst, obviously, because he looked terrified (because he thought he was about to lose his commission, surely). we walk up to the car in the garage and he explains that the garage door has been faulty and so it closed on top of the back of the car. and we were like oh no! thinking this thing got crushed

but then he shows us that the back light and a little bit of the roof got cracked. and we were like oh. and he was like, we can fix it don't worry, and we were like oh! and then he said it may take an hour and we went OH.

we went from thinking we weren't going to get my perfect car at all, to thinking the body got damaged, to thinking we'd have to wait a few days, to knowing there'd be some superficial patching and a light replacement and we'd be driving out of there in 90 minutes.

for comparison, we drove there in a 2000 vw with water damage, a rotted sunroof visor (from the water damage), completely replaced electrical system (from the water damage), torn seats, duct tape holding the bumper on, and a broken radio system. we got a quote from the place in case we wanted to offset the cost by trading it in, and when the salesman pulled up the "$1.00" in the system, he thought there was a mistake. and we were like actually no that seems about right. a dollar.