And He Calls This "Fun"

How I shop for just about everything: Log into Amazon, check price. If it is within my tolerance, I click on buy. If not, I add it to the grocery list (even if it isn't a grocery item) and then when I go out once a week--or if Marty is somewhere he can pick it up--we purchase it. This goes for everything from nail clippers to shoes.

How Marty Sunshine shops for a car when the family is in desperate and dire need of transportation: look at every single Web site in the Phoenix metro area that might have a Toy-ru-wagen for sale. Gawk at every single car/SUV/wagon online. Compare minute features between each vehicle to excruciating detail. Dither over every subtle nuance. Does the station wagon have a flugulhorn sound system? Does the sedan have a virtual assistant? If the SUV gets a flat tire, will it change itself?

1. If I am at home, show me endless pictures of cars, calling out the wonderfulness of each and every vehicle (By the way, "I don't want a car with 140,000 miles on it," turns out to be the wrong answer.).

2. If I am at home and not super-cranky from driving all over hell's half acre for my job, drag me to where to the latest car is located to bother the sales people and then compare the car we intended to see with as many other vehicles as Marty can convince me to look at in a 90 minute period of time before I melt.

Or...

3. Send me (who has the working vehicle and is usually somewhere in the Phoenix metro area) to location of Marty's latest flame to test drive and see whether or not I "like" it.

Find some minor flaw in vehicle.

Raise price limit/search area/or other obscure requirement I didn't know was a requirement.

Repeat.

We are going on three weeks.