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Show boiary 17, 1997 Page 3 The Dixie Sun Opinion Opinion Editor: John Wadley Give me liberty, or give me a car SHOPPING you always seem to end up sitting in an office chair, in a room that smells like old motor oil and flaming brake pads, to fill out an application for credit from a bank, whose name reminds you of your motherr favorite pair of shoes. Might I add that the writing is really small, too? And that is just the beginning of the worst The next step is to wait Waiting time is always dependent upon what type of dealer personality you find The first type has a tendency to follow up. They follow up so often that your answering machine with unlimited message storage capacity is now praying for a reprieve. The other type, affectionately entitled sloth reincarnate, would rather twiddle toe lint and trim nose hair than extend the courtesy of a phone caff In either case, if the new vehicle is important to you, waiting for official word is enough to send even the calmest of individuals to partake of a large portion of barbiturates, and hope that the protruding veins in their foreheads don't rupture. I would love to be able to expand on the following steps of the buying process, but that has not yet become a reality. Those of you who have, all I can say is, I hate you. My question is simple, I suppose, with an answer that is often fogged by myths and rumors. Ifthere are so many car dealers, many of whom advertise the ease of the buying experience, why is it that for some reason, I seem doomed to drive the same car for a period longer than the average life span of a Mongolian mountain Yak former whose primary diet consists of leaf lettuce and mountain grown mushrooms? I would love to have an answer. I would love to have a new car. I would love to go to Las Vegas, spend 75 cents and win an exotic car. It probably wont happen, sop until then, far those of you struggling with the same problem, buy yourself a magnifying glass to make that little application print just a little biggec 3y John Wadley Opinion Editor Now, Tm not sure if I am the only one in this town who is trying to buy a new car. ID be perfectly honest.. I can't get one. There must be some cosmic objection to the whole concept At first I considered the possibility that I might have inadvertently offended some of the and financing gurus at an earlier point, but I couldn't trace my trail of bitterness that far. Next I thought that perhaps there was another person, somewhere in the world using my name and destroying every shred of credibility in this computer-dictate- d age like some kind of bad science fiction action thriller. I finally came to the conclusion that the car dealers just weren't desperate enough to shut me up and get rid of me. So, with that in mind, I deem it therefore, necessaiy to spend time to denigrate, annoy, and outright disturb the automobile distribution officials in hopes that they will become so angiy, that they will either kill me, or sell me a car. If you find yourself in this situation, run away. There are two types of car dealers that I have witnessed; The hurry up, follow the customer to the ends of the earth, get your name and other highly personal information on paper for a great deal of exploration and exploitation, and the Well, they might want this car, but why do anything to increase my likability and financial prowess by offering a genuine service. These are real attitudes, brought about by real people. If you doubt me, try to count the stretch of numbers of car dealers on a road. I attempted it. I ran out of usable car-selli- 4 & 9 FLAVORED Ding mai SIS-- iSpertWi is, th ip fa 5 abc :e,u. a- J per oja cat r:cP! h6od-aooo"G- uy Df ? tAe INCIM 00E5 NOT 0 TW-- 1NG five-mi- K Pl6. appendages. AgqT TO PJWM THE FUNNlS.iT CAKTOW $F H OSflB 7b HdARSe, mr $ttbm SW WfiCmWit, All NMHT In any case, the scenario always comes down to the same situatioa You find a vehicle that either by choice or necessity, or in some cases desperation, fills your requirements. Next, you might be inclined to drive it, but maybe not After that Park and so seek Glenn Pilarowski Staff Writer Sv ticketed, and is it really worth spending the $10 on a little sticker that will never come off your d window when you could have spent that of tank or for a movie two on a gas money that could get you around for a week and a half plus a day? So, why do we spend this money for a little round sticker that is useless? The campus police either don't have Anough manpower, don't have enough time, or theyre too busy watching video of people eating donuts in the snack bar? Ill tell you why Without them, we would not have the little law and order the college does have, Ihave a plan, I am goingto keep parking illegally tell I get ticketed, or I get sick of not having a parking permit, because that would make me as bad as those who park illegally anyway. So, heres some advice from me to you, if you dont have a sticker, get one! Since I went off and wrote this article I would bet that a couple more parking citations will be issued, and I will probably be No, 1 on their list to find. Good hard-earne- I have done an individual study on how campus police patrol the parking lots. fen the Vould like to here the results? The campus not patrol the lots. Fm writing this article on a follow up Km the Jan. 13, edition of the paper on I hear has nice parking. The article was about the limited park-- 8 at Dixie College, and how it was not policed ;9nough. How students of Dixie were parking fl&out parking permits, and those of us who ent out and spent the $10 for a permit, had to in the far corner of the ionosphere, while nr fellow Dixie peers were parking illegally to 1st closer to their classes. I have parked a certain vehicle in sever-Ceren-t spots of the schools campus for over a mnth, and at least 75 percent of the time I was 3arked in the same spot for several hours a day. So, my question to all of the student body many of you park illegally and don't get you wlice do Luck! Biarieiffingim Devon Pilarowski AssociateNews Editor Billy Vosburg Opinion Editor John Wadley A & E EditoT Chaundra Stewart Editor-in-Chi- ef Sports Editor Barnett Johnson Features Editor Jenni Squire Photography Editor Courtney Gnessman Staff Photographer Hollie Stark Staff Writers Annette Seegmiller, Damion Zamora, Loni Johnston, Raelynn Louden, Glenn Pilarowski, Amy Pearce, Rebecca Lloyd, Joshua Bruni, Jamie Cochran Computer Technologist Jeff Pectol Faculty Advisor Loren Webb The Sun is distributed each Tuesday during Fall, Winter and Spring quarters as a publication of Dixie College, its Division of Arts, Letters and Sciences, and Dixie College Student Activities. The unsigned editorial on the Opinion Page represents the position of The Sun, as determined by its editorial board. Otherwise, the views and opinions expressed in The Sun are those of individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Sun or any entity of the college. 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