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Beck is hiring a couple of new nurses. Beck is going to give one of them her company car. Beck needs a new car.

Okay, so Beck has always like those fancy little 325i and 330i BMW's. Yeah, like we can afford a car that expensive! Well, maybe looking at used ones would be the way to go. Cool. So we went.

Wouldn't you know that we found a beauty of a BMW. 2002 330i with only 31,000 miles on it. It is pretty much loaded with the sport suspension, leather, 220hp engine, blah blah blah. Also, it is BMW "certified" which is fancy for they looked at it and said it's in great shape. They back up the certified with a warranty that goes to 2008 or 100,000 miles. Good stuff. We haggle over the price a bit and get it to what we think is a fair deal. Okay, lets buy it. I mean this car drives like a dream and it's fast to boot.

Deal is done. Time to go home. Beck jumps in the truck and I get in our new B...M...W. It's about 8 miles to get home and I am chompin at the bit to go. WERE OFF...for about 4 miles until the damn thing just dies and won't start! Yep. The engine just started sputtering and losing power. I managed to get it in to a parking lot where it died and wouldn't start again. Oh boy, was I pissed! Let me tell you.

So, Beck and I high tail it back to the dealer in the truck. Of course, the dealer is closed at 2030 at night but we managed to find one guy still there. After explaining the whole situation to him he is very nice and says simply, "If you want out of your contract, I don't blame you." He even offered to give me a loaner car until they could fix ours or tear up the contract on Monday (they are closed on Sun). Okay, so we drive back to the beautiful asphalt holder that won't start and call BMW's roadside assistance so they can haul it back to the dealer. It is going to be about an hour. We sit in the truck and wait...and stare at our car. We laugh because of the absolutely terrible luck. I form a theory of why it's dead. When they detailed the car they may have washed the engine which may have gotten water in some of the electrical.

We call the house where Eddie and Amy are enjoying some fine KFC. My stomach was dying so Eddie, being the cool guy that he is, jumps in his rocket ship and brings us some chicken. A few minutes later some friends of ours are driving by and they stop off to say hi and laugh at us. Why are they laughing at us, you wonder? Becasue while we were buying our BMW they were buying a Ford Expedition with the same miles on it for about the same price. That is funny. Oh, did I mention that theirs didn't break the hell down? In this parking lot we have Beck, me, Eddie, Aaron with his wife and three little kids. Also there is my truck, Eddie's rocket, Aaron's new Expedition and one broken ass BMW. Funny how the only foreign car is the one NOT running. Anyway, there was also a bucket of KFC which meant we had a party going on in this parking lot at 9pm. WOO WOO. How many other cars can break down and cause a party? Huh? How many? Yeah, that's right, a party.

So a few minutes later the tow truck shows up and the party is over. Oh well.

The dealer will look at the car on Mon. If it is something simple that can be fixed on Mon then I will probably keep it. Otherwise, I will look at some other cars. Stay tuned. Maybe a party will break out at the dealer or something.

ST out.