car shopping

I've decided that my absolute least favorite thing in the whole wide world to shop for is a car! The old Taurus finally left me on the side of the road last week. I had been expecting it to happen at any point for about six months now. I think it just needs a new alternator, but I know that this is just the beginning of many repairs to come, so I've begun shopping Craigslist for a new vehicle. Now, if I had thousands of dollars to simply go out and pick the car of my dreams, this might be fun... but no, that is definitely not the case, so I get to play the fun game of shopping within a certain price range, for the perfect car that probably doesn't exist. Then, making phone calls and feeling like a complete idiot asking questions about something that I know absolutely nothing about! Sounds like fun, huh?