Not to mention Permit Hell and dealing with the Texas Secretary of State who sent our Certificate of Assumed Name to Jim's work....because that's where he faxed it from. Even though I filled everything out with our shop location address etc etc etc. Because he didn't fill in "ship to shop location" in the Special Instructions box on Form 807 (form to pay via credit card when faxing application) they sent it to the location where it was faxed from. And then the guy acted like I was stupid because we didn't put a note in the Special Instructions box stating that we wanted the Certificate to be sent to either our home address or our shop location. Um....yeah!
So I called them back and got a different operator who said that happens all the time and that they have talked about changing how the form is written and what the instructions are. Then The Nice Lady said that she would send me out another copy to our home address..........which arrived the very next day!
Thank you, Nice Lady!
Last Sunday we drove to Lago Vista (BEAUTIFUL!!!!!) to buy a Tea Cart and then to Cedar Park where we got a heavy duty steel cash drawer for $50 and the receipt printer for $50. YEA!!! Now I have a working POS...........that I can't get to work yet. I am pretty sure that I installed the printer on the wrong port after Jim and I talked about it. I'll have to set it back up and work with it some more. BUT, that's kind of moot point as we have decided to go with a desktop for the shop computer, so we have to get an OS installed etc etc on one of the skeletons that we have laying around here.
So after the guy came to install the internet/phone I went to Automax Ford to get some things looked at/fixed on our 2008 Escape. It has started to make some icky noises lately and, although Jim can fix almost anything, he really can't work on the Hybrid at all. Besides, we wouldn't want to void the warranty. The Service Guy suggested that I buy an extended warranty from Ford......and you can only buy them if you are still under warranty. Now, we were under the impression that we had a 3yr/30,000 mile warranty and my mileage was 29992.8 miles when I arrived at the dealership.
While I was waiting for the person to discuss the warranty I saw a GORGEOUS Metallic Steel Blue SUV sitting in the showroom.......my FAVORITE car color. Our Escape Hybrid was white.......because it was the only one in Texas when we bought it and we were lucky to get that! Of course, the salesman suggested I get it etc etc etc......I just laughed....yeah, right! I was on the phone with Jim and he told me to tell the salesman to go ahead and see what it looked like. Well, it turns out that we were way NOT upside-down on our Hybrid........and they gave us quite a good deal on the trade in (several thousand above Kelly Blue Book) and we got a great deal on it. So, when Jim got off work I picked him up in our old one, we signed the paperwork and now have a GORGEOUS 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid!
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