Bright shiny new red

Kris and I stopped by the Honda dealership this evening to pick up his car. I had taken it in this morning for an oil change, and realized it was time for a major tune-up. Instead of a two hour appointment, the car was in all day.

Since we arrived after the parts and service department had closed, we went over to the sales department to pick up the keys. The woman had to walk across the dealership to retrieve the keys, so we had to wait.

Instead of sitting to wait for her to return, I wandered around the showroom floor, looking at the cars. Since I'm thinking of purchasing a new car, and like Hondas, a short tour was a reasonable use of time.

In the showroom was an Accord and a bright shiny new red S2000, top down. Of course, try as I might to be engrossed in the two door, four seater Accord family car, I kept looking back at the bright shiny new red S2000. After a few minutes, I gave up and went to go look at the bright shiny new red S2000 up close.

Kris wandered over to me after a few minutes, and also started looking at the bright shiny new red S2000. He wasn't there in front of the bright shiny new red S2000 more than 10 seconds before a salesman spoke up from behind us.

"You know, that car is faster than you realise, just looking at it."

We pulled our eyes away from the bright shiny new red S2000, to see him seated at a desk.

"Yeah, those cars are fast. More power than you'd think."

I looked at Kris, suppressed a smirk, and looked back at the bright shiny new red S2000.

"They're fast!" the salesman continued. "I finally got to test drive one last week and that thing could move. You get you one of those and you can expect a lot of speeding tickets."

Kris' eyes locked with mine, and the two of us couldn't contain ourselves any longer, my contested speeding ticket fresh in our minds. We burst out laughing.

The salesman had no clue. He stood up and walked to the bright shiny new red S2000.

"But, I'm too big for this car. I don't fit. When I got in it, and I ripped my pants."

Kris had to walk away, unable not to laugh directly in the guy's face.

I looked back to the bright shiny new red S2000, then at the sales guy, and back to the bright shiny new red S2000.

He continued, "Yeah, I guess I'm just a truck guy."

"Yeah," I answered, "but I'm still a Honda girl."