a day of lotsa driving, car shopping and snotty sales people..

yesterday..it was quite a fun sunday out with the whole family. went out early..me & my sis took turns to drive the car! my dad's huge mpv..the 2.5l nissan presage..one big heck of a vehicle..
but surprisingly easy to steer and control. hope i didn't look stupid at the wheel though!
my driving was mostly quite ok except for this particular incident where i focused too much on this van beside me..i kinda veered off course..came TOO CLOSE to the van but my dad..who was sitting beside me grabbed the wheel & steered the car back in lane!
*mleeehhh*
close call lehh...aiyooo..
but ya what matters is i knew where i went wrong

anyways we checked out Daihatsu, Chevrolet, Toyota and Kia. the car models we checked out are all quite similar..relatively small cars..most of them hatchbacks and all about the same price.
we've worked out a way to pay off the car..i'll definitely be contributing and so i think we will get one in the next few months =P

the sales people who attened to us at each of the showrooms were all quite nice..except for the ones at Toyota..
goodness..
i've NEVER seen SO many crappy sales people with rubbish attitudes in one small space before.
terrible. we got to the showroom to check out the Vios..get brochures..ask about the price package and all but when we got there..NO ONE spoke to us..NO ONE stepped forward to ask if we needed any help. ok if they didn't approach me or my sis..that's forgivable..we do look abit young to be buying cars..but not for my mum of dad? NO ONE attended to them. can you believe that? and the dumbest thing is that the showroom wasn't crowded and the whole lot of sale people (10 at least)..all congregated around this desk..having their own chat fest!
*sigh*
no one even smiled at us when we stepped into the showroom..which is just gross
so yeah..they lost a potential customer coz my dad was actually intending to get a toyota coz the fuel consumption is known to be relatively low

pity.

if you're one of the snotty toyota salesman/woman we saw yesterday..do something about your attitude ya? just coz you think people won't be buying cars this mth - coz of the 7th mth or what not.. doesn't mean you don't have to deal with customers when them step into your showroom.
i mean service ISN'T about YOUR opinion whether or not one will buy your product? i bet all the employees working there yesterday had the "aiyah...if you really want to buy the car..you will come to me and enquire one laaa" attitude

nonsense.

thankfully Toyota wasn't the last showroom we visited..it would have been such a spoiler at the end of the day. the last showroom we went was Kia..and the service we got there was great. this very friendly lady attended to us..very helpful.
so yea..we just might call her back soon =P