Hugging Strangers…. WRX! WRX! That I did not buy

   I need to learn to keep my hands to myself.  Than maybe these awkward situations would not occur.
    Yesterday I bought a new car (Yea!)
   I also hugged a used car salesman way to many times.
   I’m really not a huggy person, but I got confused. Do I get confused in social situations alot?
   Maybe. Maybe I do.
   After hours of test driving every all wheel drive vehicle that was around the thirty miles to the gallon range I finally settled on the new 2012 Subaru Outback. Thirty miles to the gallon and it sits up higher than the old Outback. It’s more like a SUV than a station wagon.
   Subaru offered me way more than I was expecting for my trade in, which was not in a good situation mechanically, they even upped it by a grand when I hesitated, go me for being indecisive! Unfortunately my payments are more then I was hoping for so I had to go for the cheaper model, no sun roof this time around, but I do tend to always l;ave it open anyways and then get mad at myself.

   My new SUV is pretty sweet; my inner tube fits in the back! Yes, I had to take it up to the lake the first day I had it. Seventy miles on it so far and the gas gage still says full. This model has all kinds of fancy gadgets that I’m not used to. It tells me exactly how many miles to the gallon I’m getting at all times. Thirteen miles to the gallon going up the mountain! Makes me want to cry! It’s still better gas mileage than my last Subi, so I can not complain that much.
   I didn’t realize until I attempted to back my new Subi into a turn out by Big Bear Lake that it is a six speed manual transmission. It took me an extra day to get the actual Outback I wanted as there was one manual transmission left in all of California. Also when I type Manual in my cell phone, auto correct keeps making it Manuel, because it feels my Subaru is Hispanic? Shouldn’t it be Australian?
   The problem I found with the new Subi being a six speed is I had no idea how to put it into reverse! Good thing I was sitting on the deserted shores of Big Bear Lake and not trying to pull out of a parking lot some where! I actually had to pull out my Outback manual and look it up. (You have to hold the shifter lever down as you push it into Reverse)
   After a day of car shopping, hugging complete strangers and  many days straight of work, I needed a lake day to just relax, float on my inner tube and read a book.
    So I bet you want to know why I can’t stop touching car salesman, huh?
    I was car shopping with my BFF (Who was not as helpful as one would expect as the whole time he was YELLING in my EAR
   “Try the WRX!”
   “Test drive the WRX!”
    “WRX! WRX!” (I swear Dan is more pushy than the car sale man in San Bernardino! ) and the Subaru car salesman, well I think he went in to give me a hand shake or maybe a pat on the back, when I decided on the Outback. I’m not really sure exactly what transpired, but I felt like the guy was going in for a hug, so I gave him a hug. It was awkward. For every one. As Car Salesman Martin walked away, I said to Dan
   “Well, that was awkward wasn’t it? He answered.
   “Why did you hug him?! WRX!”
   The problem with hugging a stranger, is from then on when you meet them, you have to keep hugging them. So when I went to pick up the car today, Martin the Sale Man swooped in for a hug again, so awkward. I really do not want to go to Subaru again any time soon and hug any one else who works there.
   I am excited to go back for my two years worth of free tire rotation and oil changes though.

   Yes, they offered me that before the hugging.