Car salesman are not exaggerated in movies. Oh my goodness. I nearly burst out laughing in the back of the car when the salesman turned to Neil and said "Tell me what I need to do to earn your business, sir?" I mean, seriously???? So we move on to another dealership and find something we really like....FORD.....need to stick with the American thing here. Get back to the office and ask the salesman what we need to bring on Monday to arrange the deal, when he tells us that we first need to pay a license fee! Ok, I can handle that, same like back home. But that's not all............. need to pay GST (General Sales Tax for those of us who forgot what that is).......but that's not all ......................... a property tax on any asset purchased by residents in the US, ................but that's not all.................. a compulsory insurance for vehicles before they are purchased!!!! So the very reasonable price we were going to pay for our car is no longer so reasonable.....And we need to visit the local DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) to make application before we can buy one! So here goes our first visit with a government department in US.
It has been sunny the last 2 days but still very cold, although most of the snow has melted now. Temps range between 0 and -7!!! Next week should be warmer though, we will be getting up to 9 on some days......Yeah can't wait.
Mondays are going to be cleaning days......already have the boys on a schedule of cleaning the kitchen....wait til they get their chores to do tomorrow! A shock to their system I am sure, but they have been really good about it so far, let's see how Day 1 of "The Big House Clean" goes.
Will chat soon. Lots of Love
Oh Di, you are hilarious !! Quite hectic buying a car there it seems. Lots of love always xxxx
ReplyDeleteI love little Ben, standing at the front door in the first photo. Get on with the photo people, it's cold out here.
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