Capricious Me

It’s at the dealership. My dad will drive it around for a week before I retrieve it and make the drive back home to Davis… YAY!!!!

Oh yes, so this is sort of old news, but Toyota has issued a recall for something like 38 million vehicles because they contain floor mats which could jam the accelerator and lead to fatal crashes. The 2010 Prius is not in that list, but I’m paranoid enough to think that that’s merely because not enough people have the vehicle yet.

They want me to pay 200 on top of MSRP for pieces of rubber which could lead to my demise? Thank you, but I’d rather die from a bacon overdose if you don’t mind.

And here’s hoping I made the right call in waiting for the dark gray prius instead of settling for a dark blue one today…

placed a deposit for a 2010 winter grey metallic prius II with misty grey interior this weekend.

No more, hopefully, dealing with car salesmen! I can’t stand it when they blatantly lie. Come on dude, don’t you think I know how to google and look things up??

Who the hell do these asshats think they are, charging 200 dollars for floormats? It’s a piece of rubber that you step on. $200. Really?? REALLY? I mean, do these floor mats massage your feet and self clean or something? Are they perhaps coated in teflon and, in an emergency or accident, magically protect you from harm?

No. They’re ordinary pieces of rubber that are meant to catch the dirt. So why… WHY IN THE NAME OF ANYTHING REASONABLE would I pay $200???

Ooooook. It’s getting closer to the time when I have to make my final decision on a color for the 2010 Prius. The color I had in mind initially was dark metallic gray, but on further consideration, the red and blue don’t look too shabby either. The prob. with the red is that I can’t remember if it’s a darker, richer red or if it’s closer to primary red (which I would not want.) The blue is nice, but somehow it doesn’t seem like… me. It’s just too sports-car-wanna-be.

The nicest thing with the dark metallic gray is that it hides dirt well. Living in Davis, one thing you realize is that your car collects a LOT of dirt.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

I thought I had my heart set on Winter Metallic Gray for the 2010 Prius, but now I’m having second thoughts and considering the Barcelona Red…

Why don’t they have one that’s mostly gray or white with lime green accents? (Because I’d probably regret it in a few years, but in my love for all things lime green phase, I am blind to sense.)

And traffic was awful today. A commute that should have taken me 10 min at most took more than half an hour. Most of the hold up was due to the fact that they shut down one lane of Page Mill, really close to where the Alma traffic merges on to it… (That area’s already a bottleneck for traffic.) I should have just WALKED.