Need a car? C'mon down!!

Well, I'm at my usual spot on Friday night: sitting at the front desk of Bluegrass Lincoln/Mercury dealership answering phones (FYI: I used to work here several times a week last fall but now I only work Friday nights for a little extra flo-jo).

Anyway, things are usually pretty slow around here on Friday nights - sometimes we don't see a single soul other than the salesmen and the cleaning crew, but for some reason tonight is pretty busy - we've got two salesmen working the showroom with potential would-be customers. Good thing, too, since high gas prices are really having a negative effect on the car sales business.

I must confess: the reason for this post is pretty frivolous. I'm just trying to occupy my time for the last 30 minutes until our manager yells out, "All right, let's go home!" and then it's off to the races - everyone bolts out the door faster than you can say, "Would you like the leather interior option for that new Zephyr?" It's really not a bad job at all - I can work on homework between answering the phone and watching the lot, though usually by this time of the day I'm so zapped that reading anything more difficult than the comic section of the newspaper is all but impossible. So, the only REALISTIC alternative is cruise the internet and blog random posts.

FYI: The featured car in this post is the Mercury Montego, released in 2005 - my favorite car on the lot. If I were a salesman I could probably tell you all the specs, but since I'm only a humble receptionist I can only tell you that it sits on a Volvo frame, comes with a V6 engine, gets 26 highway miles to the gallon, and though it looks pretty compact from the outside it's very spacious when you get in it (think Grand Prix), ... and I think it likes me. :)

All right, I have just enough time to clean up the desk and empty the coffee pots, so I'm almost out of here... Gentlemen, start your engines....