Another new car in All kinds of nonsense spewing forth

Dear, darling Fred's car died a few weeks ago so finally, we went car shopping today.

Now, anyone who knows anything about Fred, knows that he has some issues with anxiety. They came out full force!

We went to the dealership, spent about two hours there and Fred said he had to leave, he needed time to think. I could see that the anxiety was starting, he was pacing, tapping his foot, drumming his fingers on the desk and sweating buckets. The salesman just kept talking and talking. I finally grabbed Fred and told the salesman that we needed to leave and we would call him with a decision.

I got Fred out of there. We got in the car and Fred said he needed to just drive so off we went. I just waited for him to talk and boy oh boy, did he ever start talking.

We drove around for about an hour while he poured out his fear, excitement, questions, anxiety.....

As he talked, I just listened and when I could see that he was starting to get stuff under control, I did ask questions..his answered reaffirmed that he was ready to buy a new car, financially, but was questioning every single aspect of the process.

Since I had just been thru this with princess, I felt more than qualified to help him with it. We made a list of pros and cons talked about the financial impact and reaffirmed that he would be able to do this and mostly, that he deserved this....

We drove in and out of three other dealerships, not stopping, just driving thru.

I told him we could just go back another day and he seemed okay with that.

As we were driving home, we passed the first dealership and he said, " mom, I'm pulling in, let's go get me a car"

Although I was shocked, really really shocked, I pulled in and he bought a car!

It broke my heart to see him suffer from another anxiety attack but I was so thrilled that he pulled himself out of it quickly and ended up being able to accomplish this huge task of buying a car.

This also means that I finally have my car all to myself again! Yay!