The Honda Place Sold Me the WRONG Car!

We had a weird situation this week. George got a call from Music City Honda. They had my new car on their lot. I was driving a different (VIN) number than what was on the paperwork.

Of course they really wrote the paperwork up wrong. I had gone home with the correct car that I test drove, and fell in love with.

So George did not tell me about the call. I had brought work home and he was going to let me finish with that and then tell me that we that we had to go redo paperwork on the car I had the next night.

But while I worked, his phone rang and it was Honda wanting to bring the other car over and swap. George had to tell me right then.

I was taken aback. I had bonded with the new car I thought was mine. My stuff was in it. I was already 300 or so miles in.

They said the easiest thing was to swap the cars out instead of redoing paperwork. I’d get a full tank a gas and start over on mileage.

But…. This was my car, the one I test drove.

It’s exactly the same they said. Just a different VIN.

We agreed it really would be the easiest thing. But I was very matter of fact. It was storming and i wasn’t coming out in a storm if it was storming when they got here.

George pulled my original car out of the garage after we got my very few things out of it.

I cried when it left the garage. I’m not sure why it upset me so. I had attached my feelings to the car and my heart went out the door with it.

The new one came in and I made sure the color, the inside, the features were all the same.

The next morning I got in the new car and drove off. I apologized to the new car for not entirely embracing it, or making it feel rejected.

Yes. I know it’s silly. It’s just a car that doesn’t have feelings. But I did.

I had told the salesman when he was in my garage and giving me the keys, that this was like a pet adoption service coming to get your dog because they gave you the wrong one, after you’d had it a while. I told him I hadn’t even test drove this one.

So, i wasn’t rude to the person but i did let him know this made me uneasy and disappointed. He offered another free tank of gas, which I won’t collect. We all can make mistakes. I’m sure someone got in trouble with them. And I’ll be ok. The new car and I are doing fine. And George had enrolled the correct 2nd car on insurance as he used the paperwork and not the actual car for the VIN number. So we were good there.

I was worried something would be different that I wasn’t going to be happy with and then have to live with it for a long time. It made me feel very insecure doing the swap.

I guess it will be ok. I know it’s silly but I grieved the other car for two days. I was surprised. It should not be that big of a deal when it’s the same model. Only the headrest is different on the back seat and I actually like it better.

So, I had a little prayer ceremony over the new car on the way to work. We are bonding a little now.

There’s a few other things that weirded me out this week and/or made me laugh. But I’ll save those for later.

I’m just glad it’s Friday. I’m waiting at the doc office for mom to get her eye injection. We’re going out to eat after this.

We rode in my new car so I could continue bonding lol!

TTYL!