Our New Car

We got a car.

An old man, unable to drive anymore
sold it to us for a good price.

It's a 2000 Ford Fiesta and it only
has 43,000 km on it...that's only
26,700 miles. Mr. d'Agostini,
the owner, kept saying, "it's new,
it's new." Well, it is like a new car.
It even smells new. He told me no
one has ever ridden in the back seat,
only he and his wife in the front.

We spotted the car yesterday while walking by a small courtyard in Trastevere. I saw
the "Vendesi" sign in the car's rear window. I told The Man, "I think that's our new car!"
Well, it turned out my feeling was correct.

This morning we paid the owner and went with him to transfer ownership. We have
entered an entirely new world of bureaucracy, one hitherto unknown to us. We have
to get licenses, official stamps and stickers and permits, pay taxes and fees. Oh boy.
We're in the thick of it now. Then we have to figure out where we're going to park
the thing. If parking spaces were lifeboats, then Rome is the Titanic.

All that aside though, we're really excited.

We'll finalize the paperwork on Monday. Then we'll be off.

Oh, and we don't know what color it is. The Man says it's blue. I say it's green.
But, it actually looks sort of greenish/bluish/silverish. It's not a color that stands
out in a crowd, it blends in...which means that it's a great super-spy car!