SHOW NOTES

Car shopping, major purchase negotiations, and thirty years of evidence that Melissa and David approach money completely differently. EP 73 is one long case study in how two people who love each other can be on entirely different planets at a car lot.

They have been to three dealerships. Melissa gets out and starts opening doors on every car she passes. David watches with the face of a man who has seen this before. Early in their marriage Melissa got into a stranger’s car at a Dallas lot and did not notice until the man tapped her on the shoulder from the back seat. This week a pastor from their church leaned into the test drive window and told her he doesn’t see her in a Kia. Three different people have now said this. Nobody will explain what it means. David wants to build an app to analyze the data. Melissa wants a Ford Expedition like Big Darla. The episode also covers the $100 purchase rule they made as newlyweds, the two Eddie Bauer bikes Melissa brought home from Target without warning, the LG refrigerator David bought alone that has never worked right, and a sketch segment where they try to hold water in their mouths and make each other laugh.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“I get out of the car and I am like a mosquito at a nude beach. I know what I want to do but I don’t know where to start.”

Melissa, describing her approach to a car lot

“He tapped me on the shoulder and said he “I have loved this car for many years. My wife is inside working out a deal on another one. I’m really happy with this one.” There was a man. In the back seat. With his child.”

Melissa, on the 1995 Dallas car lot incident

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