I Have a One-Track Mind.

I'm kind of relentless.  It's one of my less awesome qualities.  I'm sure it annoys my husband to death.  

I love, love, LOVE new cars.  A year or two in a car and I'm already scheming ways to invent a "need" for a new one.  Lease programs were created for people just like me.  Who in the hell cares if you have any equity in the car when it's time to trade it back in?  Not me!  As soon as the free oil changes expire, I'm over it and ready for the next best thing.  I know.  Dave Ramsay shakes his head at me.  I blame my Grandpa for this trait, along with my stubborn streak.

My husband, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite.  He loves his cars as much as he loves me and our dogs.  He loves them and babies them and takes care of them to the point of obsession.  When something breaks, he fixes it.  He will drive a car into the ground, and then keep it in the garage because he's going to fix it up later. 

Recently, my car, which I've had FOREVER (like, 5 years) started acting weird.  Gordon swears it's probably a simple fix.  But I'm way ahead of him.  Yesterday, I "surprised" him by doing a little car shopping.  I'm sure he rolled his eyes when I called him to tell him that I was at a dealership with a very nice car sales person and they had already found the perfect car in the right color with a sunroof and some type of engine that would drive fast.  Also, it has a camera on the back to help me avoid backing into things.  What more could a girl want?  By the way, I'm pretty much any car salesperson's dream.  The concept of a poker-face completely escapes me.  I literally jumped up and down when he showed me the auxiliary plug where I can connect my iPod Shuffle to the stereo!

Bless his patient heart, Gordon went along with it.  No, he did not drop everything and come to the dealership immediately so that I could arrange financing and DRIVE IT OFF THE LOT TODAY as I wanted him to do.  But he did promise that he would come with me to look at it.  Yippee!  I'm so excited that I can hardly concentrate!  Maybe I should just take a quick break from work to drive over and look at the car, just to make sure it's still there...