Started the morning by dropping the kids off – nothing new. Then we went to the Mazda dealership to get a new decal for the stick shift. I think ours fell into the bottom of the car (the same place I have a nasty suspicion Malachai’s MP3 player went *sigh*). I knew it would be stupid-expensive. It was even more stupidly expensive than I expected.
Let’s back up. I walk in, and tell the guy what I need and give him the make/model and lo and behold he actually has one in stock. Really? Then he goes on to comment about how expensive it is. Something like, even more surprising is the cost. I said I wasn’t surprised, I expected it to be stupid expensive. I was low.
That freaking decal was 30.06$ after tax.
If it wasn’t so uncomfortable to drive without it in there (it’s an inlay) or if I could have found something aesthetically pleasing to put in there I could have done it cheaper. Oh well.
So we leave the dealership 30$ poorer. Then on the way home we are headed down Wiles. We go through a school zone at 15 MPH. Nothing unusual. We get out of it and speed up. Suddenly we’re stopped again. There is a dog running down the middle of the road. Of course no one wants to hit the cute dog. It turns off down a side street (going home?) and another car turns off with it (to rescue it?) and we go on our merry way.
Just a weird morning.
