One Down, One To Go

Mark one accomplishment off the list--I found a buyer for the car! And in quite serendipitous fashion too (there's always a story, isn't there?).

My company has its research facility in a Chicago suburb called Vernon Hills located about 30 torturous, crammed, always-under-construction miserable tollway miles from home. I had a meeting there Tuesday, which was fine, but at the last minute of that meeting I was cordially invited to return for another meeting Wednesday morning. Crap!

So after the 90 minute commute Wednesday AM to attend the 60 minute meeting, I was happily scooting away for the much more enjoyable locale of downtown Chicago. While pulling out of the parking lot, I passed and waved to a just-arriving work friend, Roberto, our Colombian tech service/salesperson for Latin America. He waved me down, we started talking and, lo and behold, he's currently in the process of moving from Chicago to Miami and looking for a new used car (that's a play on words from a Bruce Springsteen song). He had owned a BMW previously in Colombia and was also interested in a manual transmission and a cost under $20K (we all just got bonused for the year, so everyone is flush with cash). And wouldn't you just know it, I had everything he was looking for! He took the car for a brief spin and we agreed on a price the next day and a transfer date of late October. Fantastic, yes?!

So the only tasks remaining before we hand over the car is clean it up and then drive it at 100+ MPH one last time. We've only done that once before but I'd highly recommend it if you can get away with it. That car doesn't even warm up until it's going 80 MPH.

So chalk that one off the list. Whew. Now if the house would just sell. Four days on the market, two lookers already with repeat visits, but no offers yet. What a farce!