$7000+ for body kit and wheels

Thanks! Yeah, I was just talking with the order dude, and I was telling him that lots of people had been riding me about any change in the fuel efficiency that this might cause, and he was telling me that there are "die-hard" Prius people that are all about the efficiency thing....whereas then there are those of us that just want their car to look hot (not "hot" as in stolen! lol). So, thanks for the moral support! Trust me, dropping this much cash at once has unnerved me a tad.

 

lol! you're crazy! ha... I'll pass on that cash-basis thing to Mummy Dearest!!

 

The coupon thing is SO true! lol! And I totally agree on your last statement about how our cars actually NEED this "pimping" more than "normal" sports cars. It helps the general public see it in a different light. Anytime I tell someone what my car is, or someone asks what I'm driving now (since I normally have always swapped cars every 1 or 2 years), the first thing they say is, "Oh! What's your mileage?" That's all people associate our cars with---- just a gas miser, not a car's car. They don't say WOW when you tell them you drive a Prius, cause the gas mileage thing is all that's associated with it. Maybe now as more people pimp out their Prii, it'll get more and more view as a "regular" car that you can customize and make special, not just an economy box.

 

He's got this elusive book that's just strictly things for the Prius that can be ordered. I think it sucks that he has it in California, and I'm clear across the U.S. on the East coast... Obviously some "for dealers eyes only" kind of book....

 

We were so poor when I was a kid, I think we were on the Free Lunch Program... So, I, too, appreciate how well my mother who was single-since-I-was-2-with-no-help-whatsoever-from-the-sperm-donor-father has made it now and is happy to do these things that make me happy...

 

Well, if it WAS my money, I'd not do this. But, it's mother dearest's ...... and my happiness is her utmost priority, you know! lol

 

u r too funny!! lol

 

I didn't mean it in a negative way. I 99% quit my job, in case you are new to the situation, and began taking care of my grandmother full-time (my mother's mother)... (I occasionally am able to do a tiny bit of work, hence the other 1%...) We all had this "agreement", and my mother pays all my bills, etc., for doing this extremely intense task of mine. So, if I was going by my current situation for the last year and a half (well, almost 2 years now), where I might actually work my trade once or twice a month and earn $50, then I am not able to spend money like that. It's more than I make all year, based on my current "employment income". However, mom has lots of money, & buys me whatever I want. So, that's what I meant. Since it is her money, and she knows my granny "traumatizes me" (lol) from daylight until dark, and she understands how incredibly grueling it is to deal with Granny all day and night, my mother is usually eager to help me any crazy way she can, even when I come up with "unnecessary" whims such as this....cause she knows it brings some brightness back into my life. I am incredibly grateful for her help, and hope that one day I will have someone out there that will do the same for me if/when I get in my grandmother's condition. So, I hope the "pathetic" thing was just in a joking way...

 

You have NO IDEA how appropriate that is that u said it, cause that is my grandmother's highlight of her day ---- watching Wheel of Fortune, then Two and a Half Men.... EVERY day! lol