My Mobile Phone rings!!!
My Canadian Girlfriend is in a meeting all day, my Little Sister is still on pay as you go so if she needed to talk to me I'd get a text saying "Ring me!" and my Dad's at a Funeral. If it's not them that is calling then who could it be?
I answer with great anticipation!
"Hello is Steve from the Toyota Dealership! How are you?"
"I'm doing ok." I answer nervously wondering why he has called.
"Are you still going to the football?" he says. I search my memory trying to remember if I've gived a fellow FC United Supporter my phone number. I can't remember anything.
I conclude that two years ago when I purchased my Yaris, I must've mentioned football and that got written down on an Excel Spreadsheet / Post-it Note and now it's being used as some form of Jedi Mind Trick to try and make me think that this guy is my friend and that I should buy a new car I neither need nor want. Of course it could have been a lucky guess.
"I go when I can." I reply trying to be as vague as possible so as not to give them enough detail so that I can be properly profiled.
"Is the Yaris ok? Because we've got some wonderful deals on '06 Yarises this weekend" he says. I had always thought the plural would have been Yari but he would know best.
"Well I'd love a new one but still haven't paid it all off...." I say leaving a trailling silence and setting him up for a punchline.
"We can sort that out, don't you worry about that. Is it Toytoa Finance or is it a loan from a bank or another company? Because we can sort all that out for you and then just include that in any future deals. We'll even do it at 0% finance so you don't end up paying interest on the interest." I can actually hear the pound signs rolling in his eyeballs.
"It's a loan from my Dad." I say which is met with dead silence.
"Oh we can't pay that off. Have a nice day."
And he hangs up.