The eagle has landed
So today I went to pick up my new car; while I was walking home from work I got a call from Mum to say "I'm just leaving now, I had to go to another meeting!" so we were about 10 minutes behind schedule before we started. Not a major problem, nothing was time critical this afternoon.
We arrived at the dealership in good time and went to find the guy who sold me the car, he looked a little confused. It would seem that the company arranging my 7-day free insurance had got the wrong date to start my policy and set it all up for tomorrow, which meant that no one at the dealership was expecting me until then... no tax or paperwork and the car wasn't quite ready.
I wasn't too impressed and rang up the insurance people who offered to change the cover and email the new one through to the dealer; once the dealer got the e-mail they set to work to get me some tax, paperwork and finish getting the car ready. No other problems followed that other than a missing badge from one of my wheels for which the replacement was due to arrive in the morning; they're gonna post that out to me when it arrives.
In the end we were there for a couple of hours longer and both Mum and I hit rush hour traffic trying to leave Leicester, but at least I have my car now! And it would seem they were nice enough to throw some fuel in the car and the cool "Manager's Special" sign that was on the car when it was on the lot. Any ideas what I can do with it?
Woo! Aquila!
Fri 31st August, 2007