Jetta go vroom. Make Randy happy. Happy Randy is going to have to put block under gas pedal so Randy doesn’t get ticket in WA. [Randy is also parked about five buildings away from where he works, due to arriving in parking lot at 11am, so if someone on campus sees him wandering around looking bewildered, it’s because he forgot where he parked.]

A few weeks ago I get a letter from VW about my leased Passat. Seems they were offering me a chance to get out of my lease nine months early, if I leased another VW. I asked my father – who’s worked in the car business for over twenty years now (and given it’s been in either management or finance, he’s the de-facto resource for car purchase questions) – if this was really possible. I figured that they would take my remaining payments and roll them into the new lease or something. He told me that a number of car companies do this occasionally, to clear out the remnants of a model year, and since October starts the car year, it made sense. I now have a 2003 Jetta, but it meant a number of trade offs that I was more than willing to make…
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