i spent today doing repair work. i had an "incident" last night in a ice covered parking lot. i slid into a curb cause the whole parking lot was ice. bent part of the rim, and bent a steering arm, and the alignments off. steering arms fixed, but the alignments still f-ed. when i left i got sideways cause i have no weight in the bed. there was 3 cops across the street, and when i talked to them on the phone, 1 asked if i was the truck doin donuts. i may be dumb, but im not stupid enough to do donuts in a well lit parking lot across the street from 3 cop cars. ugh.

 

Brian:

My condolences on your truck.

Long ago, my old Crown Vic was totaled by the insurance company for just grazing the curb, when another drive made gentle contact with the car and shoulder her off the road.

The tweak actually pushed the nose over so you could see it in the hood gap as not being parallel.

And a few days later the radiator crack from the stress.

 

thanks. im more pissed about what the cop said. tomm mornin ill get her aligned and try to go to the gtg after. if i can get ahold of you folks lol.

 

Sorry to hear Brian.

Are you sure the cop wasn't just busting chops?

 

pete- giant joke hasnt done anything wrong by me. its just to easy to call them "giant joke" so most people around here do!

looks like im good for breakfast only tomorrow, but ill be riding in the stang.

 

Ok. Just making sure they're A-ok before I drop 7 grand on one of their mowers.

Speaking of that. Anyone wanna lend me 3 grand?

 

Good evening Aaron.

Sorry Pete, I'm trying to buy a place to call home.

 

If dad's credit wasn't **** then we could go through ExMark financing and get 6 months no payments deferred interest so by the time payment 1 was due I'd have paid it off in full.

Too bad dad's credit stinks and I'm not legally old enough to sign off on stuff like that.

 

You can always get someone else to cosign.. An Uncle, Brother, Grandfather....

 

Ya Pete:

Its tough.

Many decent people get behind because the work isn't there anymore to cover all the bills.

Over the years I had cashed in my 401K retirement account to payoff debt that I wasn't making enough to cover.

I had essentially nothing left (this is before the stock crash) until I landed this job just last May.

 

That's interesting. I'm not to savvy about money lending so that's something I wouldn't have thought of.

In all honesty I really just need 3 or 4 thousand. I can come up with the other 3 or 4 thousand.

The base price is 6999, but I want to add a few little extras like a striping kit and seat isolators and a full suspension seat.

 

Co-signing is a very personal relationship.

Because its almost like posting a Bail Bond.

If the lead person defaults, it will tarnish the co-signers credit rating.

As you likely know, in today's economy every point in the score really matters.

 

Well I have 3,000 a month guaranteed as long as I keep up my end of the contract which I will be able to do if I can get a mower. That means in 3 months I'm guaranteed to have all my equipment investments back.

So it's not really a matter of getting the mower and then not having work.

If I hadn't gotten a contract I wouldn't have even considered buying a brand new mower.

 

Pete:

Would it make a significant price difference if you waited till mid-summer to upgrade with the striping kit and seat isolators and a full suspension seat?

 

thanks. somehow i doubt he was. Pete. good luck. you should be fine. what about retrofitting the mower with a suspension seat?