I'm getting a new car! Well, newish, anyway. My current car is dying. It's an '88 Toyota Corolla wagon.

The air conditioning is almost dead. And having had the thing sieze up 2 or 3 times, we're not touching it again! And last week the thermometre hit 45 degrees C. So what happens? My car stalls. Three times. Autos are not suppose to stall! It doesn't like having the AC on when it's very hot. Very useful, huh? And when it's main driver and passenger are prone to carsickness in the heat...

And it's a gutless wonder. It can't go faster than 30kph up hills. Time for a replacement, methinks.

But we went to look at a car today. A 2000 model Toyota Rav 4. I'm a farmer's daughter. My grandfather lives at the end of a track that is 4WD only. But the guy at the car yard was very rude. He didn't seem to want to sell the car at all. It was basically:

Car dude: "Well, what do you want?"

Alacaeriel and Celebfinwen: "We want to look at the Rav 4"

Car dude: *points* "Well, there it is."

Hmph! We aren't getting that car. But there'll be other cars. Hopefully I'll find one before my current thing dies completely.

I think he was suffering from menoporche in a Mazda car yard.