Yesterday I came home to find that the plates had come for my new car. Today I came home and found a weirdly-shaped envelope for me from Toyota Financial Services. It's a banner week for the USPS and my 4Runner.
The envelope was very fancy. It had a couple different layers of nice-feeling paper in a "take one pocket out of the other" sort of arrangement. Like a DVD case inside a sleeve. Sorta. Inside the smallest pocket of nice paper was a leather folder about 8" x 4". Apparently since I financed my second Toyota through TFS, I got a holder for my registration, insurance card, parking permit, etc. Which is terribly cool.
I opened the doc holder to find a translucent, wedding invitation-like sheet that said I should go to this certain web address and pick out a free gift, as a token of their thanks. That's awfully nice of them. I mean, I don't need a present. I'd actually rather they lower the finance charge a little. And honestly, part of me badly wanted to dissect the URLs in order to see what other "prizes" one can get. Presumeably they have better gifts for people buying their 13th Toyota, right? My "offer code" was a not-very-long decimal number. What other numbers are there? What else did my purchase subsidize? Inquiring minds want to know!
After about 2 minutes of rational thought I shelved all that nonsense and went to the site. After all, I only paid a couple hundred over dealer invoice, and I was happy with my deal. Who cares about the stuff paid for by the guy who pays what the sticker says?
They have some pretty nice gifts I must admit, even without the hax0ring. What to get? I like the rechargeable hand vac. The wheeling duffel would be nice. I don't need tools. The radios are something I've wanted for a long time, however. I'll get them.
What- not the shake maker? You could have made many tasty and nutricious (haha- you know I meant alcoholic) shakes!
But the radios are also cool. We thought about getting those with our plastic card points. Let me know how they work!
Posted by suzi at August 26, 2003 9:37 PMWell, we need a new appliance like we need a hole in the head. We're out of room.
Besides, there are plenty of "nutricious" drinks that require no blending...
Posted by wee at August 26, 2003 10:11 PMWell, we need a new appliance like we need a hole in the head. We're out of room.
Besides, there are plenty of "nutricious" drinks that require no blending...
Posted by wee at August 26, 2003 10:14 PMWe've actually been meaning to get tiny radios for a while now. They have a 2-mile range, and we've used them a couple of times when caravaning in multiple cars - that way, as long as you stay in range, you can chat. (Yeah, yeah, that's what cell phones are for too, but using radios burns no minutes - and is just kind of fun. Also useful in places like the desert where cell reception is unreliable). So, thanks Toyota!
Posted by Tess at August 27, 2003 8:53 AMOh, yeah- nutri_t_ious. I had a total brain faert.
I've heard mixed reviews on the radios, but I like the idea of them... (I also like the idea of levitating. Wouldn't that be cool?)
Did I spell nutricious wrong? I'll have to check...
Yeah, I did:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nutritious
That wasn't a dig on you, Suzi. I was merely trying imply, wink wink, that some drinks can be nutritious without imparting any real nutrition.
Rum and orange juice. That's basically what I'm sayin'...
Posted by wee at August 28, 2003 12:18 AMI'm following ya, dawg. I just can't believe I thought nutricious was correct. I had to ask Andy how it was spelt.
I am old.
Posted by suzi at August 28, 2003 10:42 PMI would love a delitious shake right now! ;-)
OK - having lobbed the obligatory little-sister tease, I must say that I didn't catch the "nutricious" thing either. English spelling is so damned inconsistent. I had to look up the word "generosity" today because I could've sworn it had a "u" in there but it didn't look right either way... I pity the poor foreign fools who have to learn how to write it correctly. Not to mention pronounce it - Tough, Though, Through... buh?
Posted by Tess at September 2, 2003 3:58 PMI mostly don't care about spelling. I'm personally to lazy to use a spell checker and therefore I don't care if there are occasional errors in something -- as long as I didn't pay to read it.
At least nobody we know abbreviates "your" and "you're" as "ur". That's worse than even 'virii'. I can handle the occasional "just not using the shift key" e.e. cummings thing that some people have going today, but the 'ur' thing would be mostly hellish if it was friend. I'd have to have one of those "Hey, pssst, dude, you have body odor..." kind of intervention talks with them.
Posted by wee at September 2, 2003 9:21 PMYeah, no doubt. I purposefully did not buy a hair conditioner I was considering in the grocery store last night because it used that letter-slang in its title - "Got2BU" or something. Better than "GotBO", I guess - although the latter might be quite appropriate for a body wash and I so I could probably accept it. Anyway, yeah - I can't abide the letters-in-place-of-words thing.
Unless it's, "MRspidersMR! CDEDBDI's? MRspiders, OK." Which still cracks me up. But don't tell anyone.
Posted by Tess at September 3, 2003 9:04 AM