Meet Pearl aka BlueBell (as in homemade vanilla)...owing to her color-she's a Texas girl either way!

We drove the first new Tahoe (my first new car EVER!) home at 10pm Friday nite...Sat. am we got out to go back to the dealership...I had forgotten the title to the trade-in!  When I walked around to the passenger side of the car there was a BIG DENT in the front quarter panel!!! No paint was missing...it was a just big 4 inch crease....no way the detailers of the night before could have missed it! It was dark when we left the dealership Fri. nite and got home so we never saw it! (Originally, we had been looking at a different one..but this one was just a little bit more with more goodies we wanted...we had not inspected it for 3 days like the first one!)

By the time we got to the dealership I was shaking and almost in tears...they did their little talk about fixing it and making it all better for just $100! That's when the tears started! And the mad...They thought WE put the dent in it....I told them not only would we not pay $100...I didn't want my very first car to start off with body work! They back-pedalled on the $100 and tried to convince us that they could pull the dent out of it and we'd never know it had been there...When I couldn't take any more I told them I still had the title to my trade-in, the '05 Tahoe...to just bring it back up to the front and we'd drive it home...no way was I setting foot in that other one again!  
Looooong story short:  The only other one on the lot (in our color scheme and what we wanted in it) was a step up due to the paint color and one or two other differences! She is a beauty...we test-drove her...then went back inside to start the haggling process all over again! Of course, they wanted more money...that lead to more stress!  Finally....we left with the NEW, new Tahoe....the main difference, other than the dent!, being the color...OMG!  I bought TWO NEW CARS! in 2 days!!! 

All's well that ends well...We really love this one better! But stress has taken it's toll...I've already lost my phone charger and car keys!

PS...bet you thought it was going to be a new goat!

First Things First! I wanted to show the end result of the charm bracelet from a couple of posts back.