“Now This is Exciting"

"Now This is Exciting"

…I said to Brad as I sat in this Brand new 2017 Chevy Malibu. Brad is my guy (or salesman as some people would say) who got me into my first brand new Chevrolet Malibu back in December of 2015. You can read about it in this link   

http://5billdice.blogspot.com/2015/12/somehow-everything-seems-to-work-out.html 

It has been a Year and a half since and I only have 6 months left until I had to return my leased 2016 Chevy Malibu. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I was sure it would cost more than I could afford this coming Dec but the last time they had a lot of incentives and discounts so maybe they would have the same thing. I didn’t know what I was going to do. Then Brad called this June and told me that they had a great deal on the new 2017 Chevy Malibu. It sounded good but I already had a new 2016 Malibu and I didn’t want to turn it in early and end up paying more. So I told him I didn’t know what I was going to do. I wondered if I could buy my 2016 Malibu at the end of the lease. 

 About a week later I get this ad about the deals they had. In the meantime I got a call from my son on Fathers Day. He told me that he had just leased a brand new Chevy Malibu. “It’s blue Dad with Black leather interior.” He was all excited and told me all the new features it had on it. “Yeah I just got a call from my guy at Wickstrom Chevrolet and he sent me an ad telling me that I could trade in my leased Malibu early and get a new one. I’m not sure though,” I told my son. “Well there’s a coupon at the bottom of that ad. They will give you $50 for test driving a new car. Why don’t you just test drive it,” my son told me. “Alright, I’ll do it,” I replied.

 

So this past Thursday I went over to talk to Brad at Wickstrom Chevrolet and take a test drive in the new 2017 Malibu. When I walked in the showroom I asked for Brad. The salesman manager said. “It’s his day off can I help you?” I gave him the ad that I brought with me and explained that I wanted to take a test drive. We talked and I told him all about myself. I told him what I wanted. “I’d like to test drive the new Malibu. Do you have any in white?” He looked on the computer and found a white one with all the same things I had in my present Malibu. One of the other salesmen got the keys and I got behind the wheel. It was nice. “On a scale of 1 thru 10 what would you give this car,” he asked me. I thought about it and told him, “I give it a 9.” I liked it but there was something about it.

  When we got back the sales manager went over the price of the lease. He ended up giving me such a great deal that it was almost hard to walk away from but there was still something I couldn’t put my finger on. I went back and forth in my mind whether or not to go thru with this or not. I ended up walking away. “Call me Tuesday,” the manager said. 

 When I got home I was so confused. “Should I wait until December or lease this new Malibu now. Since my son had just gotten his new Malibu, I called him. We were talking it over and suddenly I realized, “It’s the interior. I don’t like the interior of the car I test drove. It had a light interior” I told my son. My present 2016 is white on the outside with black interior. “I love my car,” I said to my son. That night I couldn’t go to sleep. I kept going back and forth in my mind. I didn’t want to lease something I wasn’t 100% sure I liked. I think I slept about 3 hours. The next morning I went over to see Brad at the dealership. I saw that he was with a customer so I went back home. The following day Brad called and said, “I saw you yesterday.” “I know but you were with a customer.” “Bill, you are never going to get a better than the one the sales manager gave you.” “I know. I like the car but I wish it had a black interior just like the one I have now. I loved my car,” I told him. “We Have a White Malibu with Black interior Bill,” he said excitedly. I was still in bed when he called me but now I was wide awake. “Give me an hour and I’ll be right over. I brought my down payment with me just in case. I met Brad and we got in the same car I test drove the other day and drove over to where the other Malibu was with the black interior. I wanted to see both Malibu’s next to each other. Well hell when I saw the Malibu with the black interior there was no comparison. This Malibu even had these fancy ninja looking wheels that really set it off. We got in the car and Brad sat next to me while he explained a few things about the car to me. “I looked around the inside of the car and said, “Now this is exciting. YOU GOT a DEAL,” I said to Brad. I was thrilled.

    

Second Presidental Debate warning

Tonight is the second presidential debate. So before it starts, I want to give them a warning. We don't want to hear about your sexual lives. We want to hear the two of you discuss the issues our country. 

"Hey Hillery and Trump, while you two are arguing about who screwed who, our country is going up in flames. STOP IT!!! And get on with discussing and solving the issues of this country."

Electing a US President in Plain English

Someone asked me about this today so I thought I would post this 3:42 minute video that explains how a president is elected.

The Veterans Hospital are Getting Me New Hearing Aids

 I went to Hines Veterans hospital today to have a hearing test. They gave me hearing aids back 5 years ago. They said that I get new hearing aids every 5 years. This time I am getting the kind with Bluetooth technology. Now the sound on my TV and Cell phone will be directly sent to my new hearing aids. Is that cool or what? I get them in 2 weeks. I can’t wait to try them out. 

Here is the report I sent in to the VA explaining everything so I could get disability for hearing loss.

Reg: Hearing loss disability claim

I was assigned to the USS Constellation CVA 64 on Nov 23, 1963. I worked on the flight deck on catapult #1 as a hookup man launching jet aircraft until a plane ran over my leg crushing it sometime in June of 1966.

While I was launching the jet aircraft on the flight deck off the coast of Vietnam in 1965 our officer in charge told us that we had to wear a pilot’s helmet instead of the “Protective Ears” that we had been wearing.

The first time we tried them out on our next launch we found out that the pilots helmets we were wearing gave NO HEARING PROTECTION from the 140 to 150 disables coming from the Jet Engines. The pain was so great. It’s hard to describe how much pain we were in. After the launch we told our superiors about the problem but they said we had to wear the pilot’s helmet to protect the head.

On the next launch we stuffed rags and cotton into our ears underneath our Helmets. There was no change when the launch began. The pain was unbearable. I knew I couldn’t go on like this, so after the launch we threw our pilot helmets away and put our “Regular Protective Ears” back on. We didn’t care what the officer in charge would do to us. We had to keep from going deaf.

From that day forward my ears never stopped ringing. I found out later after I got out of the service that I had lost some hearing. I kept trying to get help from the Veterans Hospital for my hearing loss but it took until 2011 before they supplied me with a set of hearing aids.

“I hereby certify that the information I have given is true to the best of my knowledge and belief,”

Mile Pence Rebulican National Convention Speech

If you didn’t see tonight’s Republican National Convention then you really missed it. 

I never knew who Mike Pence was. The only thing I knew about him was that Donald Trump picked him for his Vice President. When he came on stage I had no idea that this guy was going to totally blow me away with his speech. Now I know why Donald Trump picked him. I have come out of my shell and I am really enthusiastic about those two as a great team. I have no doubt that they will put our country back together again. 

The “Do Not Call List” is a Joke

The “Do Not Call List” is a Joke

What ever happened to the telephone? People trying to sell you stuff or trying to get you to donate money or even your car. Most of the calls are just computers calling. No people on the other end, just a recording. You cannot even take a nap and at night you get calls from the other side of the world in India, something about windows on my computer. The phone never stops ringing. I counted up the last 100 calls I got and 77 of them were pure crap calls. The “Do Not Call List” is a joke. I just want to hear from my friends and have all the rest of it go away.