Spending

I'll tell you first, I absolutely hate department stores, and most of all, I hate Macy's. Macy's is where all the jerkish people in a town go to work. That store is a: way too expensive for goods that truly aren't worth their markup. b: full of 'speacialists' that truly can't do anything more special than the next salesman. and c: an awful place to be.

My mom and I were in Macy's yesterday, and simply walking in the door gets me in a slightly lesser mood than I was outside. She was checking out some jeans and I decided to wander around, scope it out, watch the people, whatever. I found some jeans that were pretty cute, found my size, hit the fitting room. I have a hard time checking prices before I try it on, call me crazy. The pants really fit nicely, which is an accomplishment in itself because I'm so short. I check the price, they were 200 dollar jeans. Yeah right, I have seen the same brand and they are maybe, at most worth 80 dollars. I then was walking around, and saw a sweatshirt that was really neat, different than what I had been seeing lately. Needless to say I wanted it. Turns out I was willing to pay some big bucks for it with a little discount from a coupon. Well guess what? Macy's sends out coupons that none of the vendors accpet! Woah, good plan eh? Even the cosmetics women are awful, their service is delayed and once you get it, they're rude. I watched my mom try and buy her makeup, and got angrier and angrier.
I'm done with that I suppose, forget Macy's.
Now for car business. I bought a 1996 Subaru Outback from my teacher this year, and thought it was going to be great. I loved the car and it drove really well. For a month. On my way back from Stanley one day, the engine light came on. I took it in and they said that the cylinder four was messed up, (clearly I know a lot about cars...) and claimed that they had fixed it. But of course, coming home from Stanely a few weeks later, it comes on again. I took it in, yet another time and they said they fixed it. 200 dollars later, my temperature gauge is going berzerk. So I took my car in for the third time in two months, and he says i need a new thermostat. Of course we do it. So now, for the third time I am coming home from Stanley, and notice the gauge is reading a high temperature. Me, thinking it's simply still not working keeps driving. Luckily I made it to Hailey before my car died due to overheating. I was so bummed and didn't really know what to do, so I waited a couple minutes before trying to start it again. Luckily it started and got me to a friends house where I left it to cool off. I took it in again, number four, and they tell me nothing is wrong with it. I'm not a genius, but I'm not stupid enough to know that if my car overheated and wouldn't take me somewhere, that there is NOTHING wrong with it. Blahblahblah more problems blah, I took it to another mechanic who found that I have a water pump leak, and one of the gaskets is warped or blown, or something. Cool, so now all summer I have been driving a car that has tons of problems, making them all worse everytime I drive it. Now here I am with this car I have had for the summer, that needs more work than I payed for it.
Forget that, I'm selling the beast.
So now, I'm on the hunt for a car, and found one that I like a lot. Guess who doesn't have 11,000 dollars for a 5,000 dollar car. Ha, ME.
I guess the point of this post is for me to complain a lot, and just try and see if writing this all makes stuff make more sense. I just feel that everything is overpriced and the point of everything now is to rip another person off.
I leave for Mars on Monday, who's coming with?
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