Good-bye my Dodge Dakota.

I woke up in the morning and decided that I was not going to go to Bellingham. I was going to go on a ride-along with Joe but I had not heard back from him. I had one thing I had to work on. It was a paper for my English class. I either had to do that in the morning or evening.

I wanted to go to Bellevue Dodge and look at the trucks. I have wanted to trade mine in on a new one. Mine is out of warranty and needed to have some work done on it. I got to the dealership. There were about five guys standing on the front steps. They looked like they were vultures ready to tear into whatever walked in front of them. I went to the side of the building. I found a lady who was working a desk. She got a salesman to work with me.

I told him what I was looking for and what my situation was. We went to look at the Dodge Fifteen-Hundreds. After checking the out for a little while we took one on a test drive. It drove pretty darn well. It has a Hemi. Then we looked at just about every other Fifteen-hundred on the lot. I was going to go for one truck when my eye was caught by one I had not looked at. It had everything my Dakota had sans the leather seats. It was blue as well. It was a dark blue however.

We worked some deals with money. I got more than blue book on the Dakota. I pulled the trigger and made the trade. I went to clean out the old truck and move it to my new one.

When I was at the dealership looking at the trucks I called Bill a few times to get some opinions on things. Then I called Lee's cell phone number. It was answered by someone who sounded like Jodi. I said can I talk to your dad. He hesitated and then said okay. Then a guy with a gravely voice like Lees got on the phone. I said hey Lee. He said this is not Lee. I said "this is not Lee?" He said who are you looking for? I said Lee Johnson. Lee is the kind of guy that jokes around like that. I sort of laughed and then said, well, can I ask you a question. He said sure. I asked if he knew anything about campers. He said no. I said, well thanks for your time. I hung up.

After I left the lot with my truck I drove to Jon's house. He was impressed by the truck but thought it was bad that I got it. I expected nothing else from him. I went to Janet and Lee's. I asked Lee about our conversation. He said we never talked. I read off the phone number I called and it was Janet's old cell phone. It now belongs to someone else. So I had been talking to someone else. Lee really liked the truck.

I went home and Mom and Bill checked it out. They really liked the truck. We headed down to the Eagles for dinner. Following dinner I went to mom's house to work on my paper. I got a few pages completed and sent off to my paper partner.

I watched the end of Almost Live! and then went to bed.