So I bought another car.........

Since our friends in the middle east have made it damn near impossible to enjoy my SUV that I so dearly loved for 3 years, I've had to step back and re-evaluate my transportation needs.

I bought my Mercury Mountaineer ('99) back in 2000 due to the fact that I needed reliable transporation in the foothills of the Aleghany mountains over in western Pennsylvania. Now that I'm back in Ohio where it's not all that important to have said transporation, I have become just enamored with the costs that I have been putting into my beloved truck.

So last week I started searching around to find something more reliable and more economical. I searched around and I just really didn't have the monies to put down on a really nice car. Side note, divorce can really kill a guy!!! So I test drove several 'economy class' cars.

After 2 days of himming and hawwing over the crappy vehicles I was about to put myself in to, I test drove a Kia Sephia.......Now wait, before you say anything, I laughed at the dealer too when he mentioned it. C'mon, the name alone is just over the top effiminate for me.

So I did the guy the favor and took the car for a test drive. I was pretty impressed! It was a nice comfy ride and who can beat 35-40 miles to the gallon???

Im driving about 90 miles, round trip, daily back and forth to work and was averaging about 100$ a week in gas to and fro......On top of it, the Kia was a '98 with, get this, 16000 miles on it! 1 6 0 0 0 miles everyone! This car was damn near mint conditon.

So I broke down and, lets see, cut my cost for vehicle payments damn near in half, I'm gonna end up paying about $20 a week in gas now! It's just a win win situation.

So just remember as your poking and making fun of me as you roll by me, that I may look out of place, but my wallet feels a whole hell of a lot better!