Bad monkey. No banana!

In my previous blogentry I mentioned that getting rid of my Land Rover was a pain, that's because it was. But the experience wasn't all bad, okay it was, but atleast I walked away having the best conversation of my life!
One thing you should know about Land Rover is they only employ super cool people. Not only do they lie, cheat and steal, but they are taught how to sale Land Rovers.

So why did I go with LR to begin with? Because they were the only ones who would give me a loan without a cosigner and a 3.9 interest rate.

Don't get me wrong, this car was great during the test drive and it performed like a good little circus monkey when the sales man took us (me and my TV) up & down the steep pretend mountain. It was a great car....for the first 6 months.
The next 8 months was a cold and bitter time. My good little circus monkey became an evil primate.
The damn thing was constantly in the shop.
So for that 8 months we tried to trade it in to other dealerships, and went back to LR to try to trade it in there. Not even LR wanted their crap back.Things went from bad to worse.
After heated conversations with LR we are told we knew of the bad title at the time of purchase and there was nothing LR could do.........wow, back up.....there's a bad title?
No, I didn't know that, and pretty sure I wasn't looking to hand over monthly dues towards the crappiest car on the lot.
Turns out I never signed the most important piece of paper; the one that described why it was the crappiest car on the lot. LR finally took back the car. And in typical LR style, they took over 3 weeks to pay off the remaining balance of the loan.

During this 3 weeks LR Capital, the pests who financed this evil primate, kept calling me to let me know my payment was late. I told the finance pest what was going on and asked him to note my account. The finance pest told me it wouldn't stop the daily calls. I'm okay with this, I'll just keep calling LR and bugging them to pay off my loan. By week 3 I'm highly irritated LR hasn't taken care of the loan. So I call LR, again, and I was told a check had been mailed out 2 days earlier via USPS.........because it's faster than the Pony Express???
Whatever.
I call the Finance Pests to have them make yet another note in my account.
Because nothing in this process has been easy, this phone call shouldn't be either. It's an automated system and you have to enter in your SSN so I do just that, but accidentally push 'call' on my cell phone after entering in my SSN- only I didn't realize it right away-
Conversation goes like this:

Old Man: Hello??
Me: Hi.......um I have some information for you to make a note on my account.
I just spoke with someone about my loan.......???
Old Man: Hello??
Me: Hi......is this Land Rover?
Old Man: What? You need a roofer?

**Crap, whats going on???**

Me: No, I'm sorry. I thought this was Land Rover. I guess I have a wrong number.
Old Man: A roofer? No. I don't need a roofer.
Me: No, I'm sorry. I dialed a wrong number, I was looking for a car dealership.
Old Man: No, I don't need a new roof. I might though. I don't know.
Me: I have a wrong number.
Old Man: Your calling from a number I don't even know the area code.
Where are you?
Me: I'm in Utah. Where did I call? Where are you?
Old Man: I'm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana!

**WTF**

Me: Oh my gosh. I have a wrong number
Old Man: Well, you sound pretty good. Are you married.
Me: (partly laughing, mostly weirded out) Yes, I'm married.
Old Man: Oh. Well, I was going to ask you to marry me.

**WTF**

Me: Yes, I'm married. Okay well you have a good day. Sorry to bother you

Old Man: ya, I don't think I need a new roof yet. I don't know though, I might here in a couple days.
It may just hold up and ......
Me: K, bye. click

What just happened??
The best conversation EVER! That's what!
(And in case you are wondering, the evil primate has been paid in full)