So I go and talk to the banker. Actually it wasn't the banker it was his computer. Wait it was my computer, talking to his computer over the internet. So my computer was asking for a loan. And lo and behold, you know what happened then? His computer told my computer it could have some of his money! Yee haw! $3,500 never felt so good in my hand as when I was going to buy Fergie.

     My wife and I have this cool game we play when we go buy a car. One of us acts like we absolutely can't live without the car we're looking at and the other acts like they hate the car and if we buy it they will get mad, get a divorce, take the kids and all the money we were gonna buy the car with. (Don't forget to remind your spouse that it's really an act!) So we go play our game on the unsuspecting tractor guy. Err, girl. The owner's daughter to be specific. I tell her I need the tractor, Laurie (the wife) tells her I DON'T need it and the poor girl is stupified. (Works every time.)

     So she says, "ok, $500 off makes $3,495." And I say, "but all I have is $3,000 cash." She says, "they have more into it than $3,000 and they're already at their limit." And I do the one thing that every salesman on this planet dreads! I pull out a wad of cash. $3,000 to be exact, the other $500 is in my other pocket. (Sneaky me.) I put the wad on her desk, she remembers to breath, and I say "I'll take her right now." "I don't know," she says, "I'll have to ask the owner." And unlike all the car dealers on the planet she actually does go and ask the owner. She comes back with a sad face and says," sorry I can't do it". I look sad, Laurie looks happy, and Laurie says, "fine, we're gone." Then gets up and leave. I follow, heart broken, but in the back of my mind I saw a glimmer of hope in the sales ladies' eyes.  I slowly wad up the cash and put it back in my pocket and the whole time the girl's eyes are glued to the cash. (Must have been a slow week.)

     So I'm walking out and I whisper to Laurie, "Walk slow." So we take the long way back to the car, looking at a few other tractors as we go and then, like lightning we hear....



"Sir"....    "OK."         



Yee haw!!