New ride, baby!

So a lot has happened in a week...

In the wake of my car getting destroyed, I've been trying to get back to some sense of normalcy (i.e. processing everything that happened, recovering from my lingering knee injury and finding a new car). Thankfully, God has blessed the past several days and I'm already have a new car! It's a 2002 Chevy Cavalier. Definitely smaller than the Honda, but it's sleek, smooth and silver. It'll get me around town and back home (all I can ask for). I almost got scammed out of half of my money trying to buy a car on craigslist. Who would have thought that a 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid in perfect condition with only 31,000 miles on it wouldn't really be sold by anyone for only $4700? Most people, that's who! From the start, the offer sounded too good to be true, but because of my implicit desire to trust everyone, I had to at least ask about it. But after the guy sent me an email supposedly from ebay laying out all the details of the transaction, I had to follow up with the ebay admins to make sure it was legit. Sure enough, it wasn't. 100% fraud. Also, big props to Neil, the Honda Car salesman who did some extra research on his own to confirm that the whole thing was a scam. He definitely earned my trust, and as a reward, I bought a car from him. Thanks Neil!

So watch out...if you see a silver 2002 Chevy Cavalier zoom by you on the road, with the driver's dreadlocks whipping in the wind behind him and his tan skin glistening in the setting sunlight...copy down his license plate number and report him to the police, because it sure won't be me! I'll be cruising along at a safe speed, keeping an eye out for minivans running red lights.