Christian Author Laura Davis

On Saturday, my husband went to bring our daughter home from college for a week. On the way there, his car started to give out - $400 and many hours later, they made it safely home again. Because of what happened, we thought it prudent to begin searching for a new car before we sank any more money into our 10 year old van.

We wanted another van because I find it difficult to get down into a "normal" car (I can't bend my leg). We looked at a lot of cars too. But, unfortunately my legs were too short for most of them (even with the seat all the way up!). I even managed to set off a car alarm in one of the vehicles -  unfortunately, it did not draw the attention of anyone inside the dealership and so we left. *Note to Oxford Dodge - if a car alarm is going off for 15 minutes, you might want to check it out!*

We had more luck at the Ford Dealership. Our salesman was very helpful and went out of his way to help us find a car and he found us a great one, with adjustable pedals. Take that Randy Newman! Short people do have a reason to live! Unfortunately, the car was out of our price range. Dejected, we decided to take our clunker to the service department and get it fixed. But, Luae (our salesman) said, "Don't give up yet! Come back tomorrow, give me time to find you that same car in your price range." We shrugged and agreed to give him the chance.

The next morning, Jim set out to take the car in for it's repairs, but first he went to meet Luae. About two hours later, Jim came back home. "So how much did it take to get the car fixed?" I asked. He looked rather sheepish and to make a long story short - Luae came through. He took about $8000 off of the ticket price and our new car should arrive in about eight weeks. Did you know Ford will take $1000 off if you belong to Costco? Who knew that Sam's closing would be such a blessing?

Today we went to see Alice in Wonderland. We had a two for one ticket. We stood in line for a while until we discovered we couldn't use it on 3D movies. So, we jumped out of the line and went to the self-serve ticket machines, only to have it take our money and not give us tickets. We found a manager who fixed everything. We got some drinks and headed into the theatre. Unfortunately, when Jim went to sit in his seat he sat on my son's blue slushie instead. It fell out of the cup holder and plopped all over the floor, but not before it soaked the side of Jim's leg and went down his sock and into his shoe. He sat for two hours with blue slushie in his shoe!

The movie? Umm...well...save your money.

The moral? Expect the unexpected and watch where you sit!