I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my truck.

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There's a wonderful Monty Python routine that has two of the pepperpot ladies sitting on a bench. One ask the other if she's been shopping. Then she asks what the other bought.

"A piston engine" is the reply.

Today, I bought a piston engine, along with the Ford Ranger it came wrapped in.



With the rebates and all, we got the payments down to a reasonable level (and can refinance next year.) It's a pretty basic truck, but comes with a bed liner.

kshandra, of course, has dibs on it for That Thing In The Desert.

The most shocking thing was seeing our credit scores. 700+ across the board. As the finance dude put it, it's good credit but not deep credit. So we keep making payments and keep building things up.

I bought a truck.

I need beer. Stat!

(More photos at my Flickr account)

Comments

[claidheamhmor]

Thanks; that explains it nicely. I suspect we have it a lot simpler here. We have credit bureaus one can check with, but I don't think they have a scoring system, per se. They do have blacklisting, though, and if one is blacklisted, you won't get credit anywhere for about 5 years.