Kings over Queens
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April 2016, I'm driving an S420 with 190k miles, a cracked windshield and squeaky brakes because I refused to pay for OEM rotors and pads. My wife finally has enough of me, literally flicks me in the forehead and says "you're an executive, go buy an effing car!"A couple years ago we went out to lunch, stopped into a Mercedes dealer just for fun, took a test drive. Then went to a bank, got a check and bought a Benz sedan.
So I start looking at E class, and she can see I'm not comfortable, and I can see the scowl our of the corner of her eye as I pretend.
We agree to test drive an S 550, but because of how it was wedged in between cars, I had to wiggle in and the second I sat in it, she saw the look on my face and told the dealer "he'll take it."
I hemmed and hawed and wringed my hands until she did it again. Flick, right in the forehead, "you're going to keep this car for 10 year, just buy what you want." So I did, however, I found a a 3 year old CPO off lease and that helped my angst.
As it turns out, just last week I sold that car with 160,000 miles to someone else.