This iconic car dealership has been a fixture in St. John’s, Newfoundland for more than thirty years. A couple of months ago the dealership was pushed into bankruptcy. It is alleged that the company owed more than $12 million to Chrysler Canada and almost $7 million to Revenue Canada. Revenue Canada has filed 31 charges against Woodford and his company for breaching the tax excise act.
I bought my first car from this very dealership back in 1987. Well, not exactly my first car, but the first car that I had to get a bank loan in order to pay for it. I had several cars prior to this one, prices ranging from 2 dozen beer to 4 hundred bucks. Some of these cars are worth blog posts themselves, but we’ll save them for later. The car I bought from Tom Woodford was a 1984 Honda Accord. I paid $6600 bucks for it, taxes in. (Now I wonder if Revenue Canada ever received the tax!) They had originally wanted a co-signor for the loan, but I insisted they give it to me without one. Once they realized I was ready to walk away they somehow got the appropriate approvals. So, I put $1500 down, signed a bunch of papers, and drove away, bucking gears, in my first standard shift vehicle.
I really enjoyed that car! Thanks Mr. Woodford.
I play in a billiards league. It’s a fun league, but competitive enough to make it interesting. My team played really well this year. In fact, this year was my personal best. With three weeks remaining in the regular season, we had already clinched first place. Now, we are in the playoffs. Last week… fairly easy win. This week (tonight actually)…not so easy. After four rounds of play, we tied. In the playoffs, a tie is not allowed. We had to play an extra round. We tied the extra round. So… we had to pick a player to play the best two out of three against a pick from the other team. Being captain of the team, I picked myself. I was feeling good. But I lost. Yup. Lost. Oh well.
A guy walks into a Newfoundland library and says to the librarian, “Excuse me Miss, I wants a book on suicide.”
That’s really the point of this blogging thing, isn’t it? If I wasn’t writing something here now and then, ye wouldn’t be all that anxious to be coming back. And if you lot weren’t out there to read my drivel, I wouldn’t be all that motivated to write this stuff for youse.
