Honorable Honda at 31,000
Today is a big day for my car, seen here when I bought it in April of 2006. Then it had 35 miles on it. Today it has 31,160 more.The name of my representative at the Honda dealership is Charlie Chan.
I am typing on my ancient PowerBook in the dealership's Internet Lounge when he walks in to tell me that the cost of my 30,000-mile tuneup will be $713.
"Wow," I said. "We just had a child for that much money."
"Ha ha ha," said Charlie Chan.
He explains why everything is necessary and I know that everything is necessary. I put 30,000 miles on that car in 18 months. Still...
He asks me what I do for a living and I tell him I am a writer.
"Did you hear about that writer from New York that Yahoo paid a million dollars to if he could spend it in one day?" he asked.
"No," I said, "but he could probably have spent it all here."
"Ha ha ha," said Charlie Chan.
"Ha ha Ha," I said.
There are not enough free creamers at the coffee station to make me feel better.
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by Marty Barrett at Monday, October 08, 2007
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