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Dress for the fall

by Mary Anne

There is a website that my sister told me about that I just checked out that sells motorcycle safety equipment. The business is run by motorcycle riders who know just important motorcycle safety is. I think that riders should always dress for the fall, not for the ride, so I was glad to learn about this site.

I’m thinking about buying my hubby a new set of leather chaps. I can remember a time when I was dating a guy who took a spill on his bike and he was only wearing jeans. He had a really bad case of road rash! I think chaps are silly looking, but I think that they are an important safety item for bike riding.


Took my hubby biker gear shopping today

by Mary Anne

Dean has never been to Orange, VA, and there is a Harley Shop there.  I’d heard that they were having a sale today and a promotion where you signed up for a drawing to win a new Harley, so I offered to go there with him.  So we left home around noon, got there around one.  Looked at all the Harleys, bought a pair of chaps, signed up for the drawing to win a new Harley, ate a free hot dog, looked at the detachable windshields and then came home.  He was happy we went.  As for me, well, I was glad he went so that he could learn his way around a little bit more.  It is hard to get him to go places he hasn’t been before.


She’s Moving to Chicago

by Mary Anne

This morning I got a surprise phone call from my sister. She had good news and couldn’t wait to share it with everyone – she has a new job in Chicago! I am shocked! I can’t believe that she accepted a job up north!

She is going to be busy packing up everything in her house and getting ready to move up there. Thank goodness the new company is helping with moving expenses. But she says that she is selling her old car and leaving it behind so she can buy something new from a Chicago Honda Dealer when she gets to the Windy City. She sent me this link to check it out: http://www.ednapletonhonda.com

I’m so excited for her – she deserves a great job for a good company. This will give her a chance at a new life since her divorce. She can get a new apartment, that new Honda Accord she’s been wanting, and she’ll be meeting all new people.

I remember when she went up there for the interview last month. She was so sure she was going to get this job that she spent the rest of the afternoon at a Honda Dealer In Chicago, looking at new cars. She even reads the dealership’s blog now, to read up on all things Honda, I guess.

I wish I could get a new car. It sure would be nice to have something that wouldn’t be breaking down all the time. I could just call the dealer and bring it in for service instead of constantly searching for a mechanic that can do the work and can be trusted. Knock on wood, my car will hold out the rest of this year, and then after Christmas maybe I can shop around for my own new car next year.


Interesting job

by Mary Anne

I was interviewing today for a new job with a company that specializes in buying used luxury cars for their clients and then using an Auto Transport company to get the car to their client. This was my first peek inside the world of buying and selling used cars.

These folks had several people around the country that would go to local automobile auctions in search of a specific car, and bid on it. If they won the auction then they would arrange for Car Shipping to take the car to an auto detailing and repair place to make sure it was in good working condition and looking as new as possible. Then the buyer would come look at the car and determine if they want it or not. If they decide to actually buy it then they pay for it and either drive it home themselves or have a Car Transport company deliver it to their own homes.

I could not believe that in this economically troubled time how many people are in the market for luxury cars right now! I’ve never been a big fan of status symbols, and I consider luxury cars to be one of the biggest status symbols ever invented.  I don’t know how I would feel working for a company like that.  I have a certain amount of disdain for people who drive status symbols.  Is that weird, or what!?


Bait and switch

by Mary Anne

I would like to think that companies know that bait and switch is illegal and would take care not to practice it. And yet when my hubby took the truck to the local tire company to get new tires, that is exactly what they tried to do. He was quoted one price for the new tires and he agreed to buy them. They took the truck into the garage and went ahead and mounted and balanced the tires.

When he was presented with the bill, it was for almost double the amount he was quoted! When he questioned the amount, they claimed that the price he was quoted was a mistake and that they could not possibly sell the tires to him for that price. So what would you do in a situation like that? I’ll tell you what he did; he told them to take the tires back off of the truck and put the old tires back on it. They sure didn’t like hearing that! But that’s exactly what happened.


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