JoyNChrist
12-14-2007, 05:05 AM
So DH is royally pissing me off these days.
We recently decided to downsize one of our vehicles to a car. DH drives a 4-door Chevy Silverado Z-71, and I drive a GMC Yukon. It really doesn't make sense for both of us to have huge gas-guzzlers, so we decided that one had to go. After much discussion, we agreed that it was smarter to trade in DH's truck (since it's a year older than my Yukon and has more miles on it, and we both honestly like the Yukon better). We agreed that DH would take the Yukon, and we'd trade the truck in on a mid-size car for me.
Everything was fine, until we actually started shopping.
Apparently, the fact that we're trading in HIS truck means that DH has veto power, even though the new care is going to be MINE. I've tried to be accomodating and take his opinion into consideration, but he hates everything I really love, and I'm starting to think that we're going to end up with something neither of us is really happy with. At first, I really wanted a Civic Hybrid. But DH immediately vetoed that idea since they're "absolutely hideous" in his opinion. Then he wanted a new Chevy Malibu, but I didn't like the two different ones we test drove. We both kind of liked the Chevy Impala and the Honda Accord, but neither of us was just crazy about them.
But then today, I fell IN LOVE with a Volkswagen Jetta. I mean I literally did not want to get out and give the keys back to the dealer after the test-drive. I wanted to stay and sleep in the car, that's how much I loved it. And from our initial conversation with the salesman, the price sounds like it will work out well with our trade-in. And since DH admitted that he really liked it too, I thought we were set.
But then when we got home, DH said he didn't want to buy it. Why? Because the closest Volkswagen dealer is 2 hours away from our house, and he didn't want to drive that far for repairs if anything went wrong with it.
Hello?! Who cares?! IT'S MY CAR! MINE! And he has never, ever taken the Yukon in to be serviced, so I highly doubt he would ever do so with the Jetta when the time came. And I realize that having the dealer so far away isn't the ideal situation, but did I mention that I (who normally doesn't care much about vehicles one way or another) love love LOVE this car? Like, I couldn't stop petting it while we were standing in the lot talking to the salesman. If this car were a man, DH would have to watch his back, cuz I might run off with it.
But no, HE doesn't want it. Even though he will probably only drive it once a month at most, and even though I've never complained about either of the vehicles he's bought since we've been together.
Men are really aggravating sometimes. :32:
We recently decided to downsize one of our vehicles to a car. DH drives a 4-door Chevy Silverado Z-71, and I drive a GMC Yukon. It really doesn't make sense for both of us to have huge gas-guzzlers, so we decided that one had to go. After much discussion, we agreed that it was smarter to trade in DH's truck (since it's a year older than my Yukon and has more miles on it, and we both honestly like the Yukon better). We agreed that DH would take the Yukon, and we'd trade the truck in on a mid-size car for me.
Everything was fine, until we actually started shopping.
Apparently, the fact that we're trading in HIS truck means that DH has veto power, even though the new care is going to be MINE. I've tried to be accomodating and take his opinion into consideration, but he hates everything I really love, and I'm starting to think that we're going to end up with something neither of us is really happy with. At first, I really wanted a Civic Hybrid. But DH immediately vetoed that idea since they're "absolutely hideous" in his opinion. Then he wanted a new Chevy Malibu, but I didn't like the two different ones we test drove. We both kind of liked the Chevy Impala and the Honda Accord, but neither of us was just crazy about them.
But then today, I fell IN LOVE with a Volkswagen Jetta. I mean I literally did not want to get out and give the keys back to the dealer after the test-drive. I wanted to stay and sleep in the car, that's how much I loved it. And from our initial conversation with the salesman, the price sounds like it will work out well with our trade-in. And since DH admitted that he really liked it too, I thought we were set.
But then when we got home, DH said he didn't want to buy it. Why? Because the closest Volkswagen dealer is 2 hours away from our house, and he didn't want to drive that far for repairs if anything went wrong with it.
Hello?! Who cares?! IT'S MY CAR! MINE! And he has never, ever taken the Yukon in to be serviced, so I highly doubt he would ever do so with the Jetta when the time came. And I realize that having the dealer so far away isn't the ideal situation, but did I mention that I (who normally doesn't care much about vehicles one way or another) love love LOVE this car? Like, I couldn't stop petting it while we were standing in the lot talking to the salesman. If this car were a man, DH would have to watch his back, cuz I might run off with it.
But no, HE doesn't want it. Even though he will probably only drive it once a month at most, and even though I've never complained about either of the vehicles he's bought since we've been together.
Men are really aggravating sometimes. :32: