Mike
Well-Known Member
I just sealed the envelope that contains my final payment on my Total Performance kit lay-away.
:yay:
I'm still financially embarrassed and will need to wait for everything until I can afford to pay the freight bill, but the kit is f-i-n-a-l-l-y paid off!
This started out to be a pretty sweet deal. I divorced my son's mother back in 1995 and never saw a dime of my court-ordered child support until early 2006. I chuckled when I saw the first check, because I knew they wouldn't last. After getting checks for some 16 months, I figured I was safe with getting paid the balance, so I trekked to Total Perf. to 'try on' a car. I left a deposit and was smiling, because the back child support was going to pay for the kit.
Stupid me, eh? About 7 weeks after I got home from CT, the support checks stopped arriving and I haven't seen another one since. Go figure.
So, I cinched up my belt, knuckled down and kept sending checks to Total. The checks weren't as big as I had intended, but perseverance saw me through. I've completely forgotten what things like steak or pizza taste like in the last thirteen months, but I guarantee you I will be getting re-acquainted with a pizza this evening.
I can remember sitting in my high school study halls, looking at Total Performance ads and dreaming about owning a T. And that was a lot longer ago than I care to admit, because I graduated thirty-<COUGH, COUGH>six<COUGH, COUGH> years ago. It seems as if I have since dodged about everything life could throw at me, but my dream is finally coming true.
Thirty-plus years ago, I promised myself I was going to own a Total T. It took so long to make it happen that driving my own Total T is now on my Bucket List. :rofl: Well, those Spirit C-Cabs look pretty good too, so if the doctor can keep me alive long enough, I might give one of them a try too.