Josh and I are in desperate need of a new car. Apparently, before we met, Josh's father had to sell Josh's car for some extra cash that he needed. Josh was devastated as it was the car of his dreams. Let me give you a little background information. Josh's parents got divorced when he was about 13. Josh's father, Ralph is a very nice man, with a lot of problems. He has a major gambling problem and that has caused him to loose everything. He owes the IRS a lot of money, I really have no idea how much, but I do know that it is a lot. He holds a really good job, and makes a lot of money, but manages to loose it all. Anyway, when Josh was 17 his dad bought him one of these guy muscle cars. I don't know what kind it was, but he loved it. I have seen pictures of it, but I still couldn't tell you what kind of car it is. When his dad got into financial trouble about 1 ½ years ago, he needed to sell the car, and in turn bought Josh a lesser car, promising all along to replace the car when he got the money. Well, I think Josh got tired of waiting for him to voluntarily do this, so he backed him into a corner and told him he needed a new car. Josh told him he wanted a brand new car, and that if his father would put the money he owed him as the down payment, Josh would make the payments, and so it went.

Josh asked me for my input and I told him that it should be a small car that gets good gas mileage and nothing too expensive as he would be the one making the payments on it, hopefully this would also mean we'd get a relatively cheap care insurance quote. We both had agreed that we had heard a lot of good things about Saturn, and thought this would be an inexpensive enough car that making the payments wouldn't be too big a headache. Well, he brought home his new silver 2 door Saturn Astra 2008, and it was a beautiful car. He was excited as it was his first brand new car. I told him congratulations on it, and he said "what do you mean?" this is our new car. He handed me the keys and let me take it for a ride. In comparison to the old hunk of junk I was driving, it was like floating on air. You could hardly even hear the engine it was so quiet. I took the ride around the block and thought to myself, this is odd, what does he mean this is our new car? When I got back to his dad's house I asked him about this, and he just replied "well, we are not going to be just boyfriend and girlfriend forever, are we?" I shook my head no, and thought to myself would this be the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with? I don't know, but I think Josh is really starting to believe that this is it and as for me, I think I am starting to come around to the idea.