I had a crappy day yesterday, a really crappy day and all I really wanted was tequila shots and Sofia's company(sofia is my ex-blond, now kinda brunette, knows one too many secrets about me friend) and the best company ever for tequila shots because she doesn't drink.
She was also having a rough day, we have been having a rough week just for different reasons, her main reason was that she could not for the love of herself find a car, a cheap car to buy and her vacation was passing by and time was not on her side.
Yesterday I decided to help so while she searched online and gave me phone numbers and info, I called, amen to conference calls and free hands kit,I searched and called and finally came upon an unrefusable offer.
A little black car that kinda looked like a lady bug for only a few hundred dollars more than her budget, but the ad said those few hundred dollars more would be negotiable.
When you look at an ad to buy a car you already assume whoever posted that ad already overpriced the stupid thing because of course people will try to negotiate, we live in a world which is on a crisis the cheaper you can get something the better. When I called again I asked if the price was negotiable and the lady said yes, so far so good, we arranged a meeting and off Sofia went in ecstatic happiness to see this little car that could end her bitter days of bus riding.
She loved the car! I received a call later saying the deal was made and that she was going to get the car the next day. We wanted to celebrate, I wanted to celebrate, well I just needed an excuse to go out for tequila shots and that was a very good one.
It turns out now days spoken agreements do not have the power they used to have back in the day, if I recall correctly back in the day you could get killed if you broke a verbal agreement, because 45 min later the ladie's husband called saying he was not going to sell the car for the price Sofia had agreed with his wife because he had someone else interested who was stupid and wanted to pay full price. If you asked me that's bullshit, but hey there was really nothing she could do she liked the car so she agreed to pay full price, she was upset, we were all upset, we all wanted a piece of that man.
No one likes to be made a fool of. We went to Cascais anyway for our tequila shots, that never happened because Sofia's mom called saying the whole situation was bothering her and she was coming to meet us so we could discuss it and find a solution.
So instead of tequila shots we sat at the mall at 10pm at night looking at car ads in the newspaper. That alone was a sight to be seen. We finally found a car that Sofia liked by 11pm and we called, the thing is she had to make a decision right then because today was the day she had to give answers, but we also needed to see the car from the newspaper, and the car was in Lisbon in a place no one knew how to get to, I knew where it was, just not exactely how to get there, but we managed between ex-boyfriends who are kind enough to pick up the phone at odd hours to give directions, and not so secret admireres who live in Lisbon an are just too eager to help, and actual friends, we got there, and there my friends was the Guetto!!!!!!!!!
I think our friend who was driving wanted to kill us, literally kill us, besides yelling all the different directions, telling him to turn right on top of the exits, we also took him to the guetto to see a car at midnight, oh we are good, we are awesome, we got lost, in the guetto:D
We had no idea where we were neither had the car guy any idea where we were, we just kept missing eachother, after almost 45 min he finally found us and the car was beautiful.
The car was even better than the other one Sofia had seen and he dropped a hundred dollars from the price and the guy seemed honest, and let me say he was also very patient, and Sofia loved the car, she loved it. Sofia is not really the kind of person who gives happiness away, her happiness is saved for really special moments and by her face this was her moment, after so many months of waiting and saving up money and working odd hours, and taking up with all kinds of crap from the boss and other stupid people she finally had got her pay, a nice beautiful shiny car:D
We were in a guetto in the middle of nowhere in Lisbon, Sofia, me, Sofia's mom, the friend and little Sara(Sofia's sister) at 12am with a stranger (that for all we knew could be a crazy killer waiting to slash us open and sell our organs in the black market)staring at a car happier than we can ever describe...tell me that does not beat tequila shots?????
I think it does. There is nothing better than seeing a friend whom you know sacrificed for something getting that sacrifice repaid.
My crappy day ended on a high note with no tequila shots, but with a lot of smiles and laughter and one big kick ass adventure:D
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