Failure to Communicate

Greeting me from my lunch break was a wonderful tale of how my recent automobile purchase was 'against company policy'. I'm not sure how this affects me, but whomever sold the car to me via my Dad didn't follow the rules. I guess he wasn't allowed to sell the car to anybody other than his spouse or co-worker. An hour later, the very intelligent and wonderfully knowledgable person at Wheels Inc. told me that they would have to arrange to pick up the car. This idea made no sense since it was supposedly sold to me. I've already made insurance payments. Hell, it's been out of the original owner's hands for over 10 days now. Why would I return a car to a party who claims to still own the car?

My suggestion to the company: refund my money, the seller will 'purchase' the car, register the title in his own name and sell the car to me. The person on the other line said there was no problem with that. Wait a second. How did we get from "We need to take the car back, sir." to "I'll send the refund to you and send the purchase forms to him today." in thirty seconds? All of a sudden, it didn't matter that the car was in my possession. I don't technically own this thing and all property rights belong to someone other than me. Yet...the 'owners' of the car have no problem with me using the car. I guess liability is not on them. Something tells me this saga ain't over yet.

Note to self: Don't get pulled over, don't let the car get stolen, and memorize the current license plates. That could come in handy.

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