Soy Beans and Cars

Hello,

These two subjects are wearing me down or out. A friend sent a note that we should check into the value of soy as a food. There are certainly some negatives. The positives are that we are not using GMO soy. It has not been farmed, but in our garden with just us and the sun, rain, and dirt. On the other hand, we do eat tofu, texturized vegetable protein, soy milk, and soy flour which are all commercial products. Who knows what the background of that soy is? Hopefully we do not eat so much of it that it is causing us much trouble.

We are shopping for a different car. We have only spent two days out looking at vehicles, test driven four, and talked with three sales people. The rest of the time we are reading consumer reports, searching the Internet, and groaning.

It would help if we were brand loyal then we could eliminate many possibilities. Now we do not know if we want to go for Leroy’s comfort. He has some issues with his hip after sitting in our cars for two hours or more. How do we know what would be good the next time around unless we were to rent or borrow such type?

Do we want to go for some hauling room? Course we do not want a large vehicle so that makes quite a lot of difference in what is available. We want the best gas mileage that we can get.

Then we want this and that feature, but we do not want to pay much for anything. I believe the day will come when we will say we have had enough looking and we will just buy what is closest at hand and closest to our expectations. It is hard for us to imagine that some people actually enjoy this process. All it seems to do for me is cause tension, greed, and sadness. I had the brilliant thought that we spend so much money on this thing to have it be idle most of the time. It sleeps as long as we do and often is not used. Too bad we “need” a car anyway. Life could be a lot less stressful. That is my plug for good and frequent public transportation.

Paula