Hiding The Car From The Repo Man

O.K. here comes a crazy one.

Not too long ago I got behind on my car payment by a couple of months and despite my plea with the finance company to let me work out partial payments until I could catch up, they were hearing nothing of it. They wanted the past due amount in full or the car.

Well I didn’t have the past due amount in full so they said they were going to have to pick the car up and that I could get it back when I came up with the money, as long as I did so before they auctioned it off.

Hey I needed my car if I had any shot at keeping my job. So I couldn’t let them take it. So thus began the game of “Where To Park The Car Tonight?”

For almost three weeks, every night I parked the car in different places, places not close to my apartment, because I knew they would circle the block looking for it. A different place every night, sometimes a friend’s place, sometimes a store lot, I was creative to say the least. Thank goodness this was an older car and they had no tracker on it. And I know they were looking. Every once in a while I would see tow trucks in the hood at night. Even at work I had to park blocks away, in hidden places, in alleys. I did pretty good if I do say so, and hey the extra blocks I walked was good exercise.

I did this long enough til I could put together the back payments and get it to ‘em, about three weeks. And when I went in to pay, I even took the bus just to be sure it was all cool with the payment.

And even the assistant manager in there laughed and said I was lucky cuz they were sure looking to grab the car. Well, you do what you gotta do. I knew they were gonna get paid and I needed the car, so in the long run everybody made out. And I even got some extra exercise.

Though it wasn’t fun looking over my shoulder for three weeks, worried whenever I saw a tow truck.

Jason B.