....a 20-something daughter of a friend went to look at a used car. It was an older model with a book value less than $10,000. The friend's dad found numerous examples for sale under $10,000. The girl wanted the car and said she could not afford payments over $350 (dumb to shop on payments alone).

Well, the car saleslady pronounced that the car was in really good shape in spite of it's age and mileage and that the price was a firm $19,000. To make the payments lower, she said, they would simply make the payments biweekly instead of monthly. The daughter called the friend - her dad - and told him she thought it was a good deal.

The dad went nuts. "DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING!" he demanded, "and let me talk to the salesperson."

The dad asked her how it was that the car was so overvalued. She replied that she did not set the price, corporate did. They - corporate - had "assessed" the car's value and that was a fair price. He replied that it was an absurd price to which she responded by asking him how he was qualified to determine a car's value. He then asked about those biweekly payments and how that made the payments lower. She replied that it was the only way to keep the payments below $350. She never used the term monthly. She was going to set it up with payments at a ridiculously interest rate and at $350 every 2 weeks. The daughter was totally bamboozled on that.

The dad got his daughter back on the phone and demanded that she leave the dealership and again told her not to sign anything. He explained to her that she would be paying twice what she thought she could afford per month.

She finally left but continued to say that the dealership was "willing to work with her" to get her the car she wanted.

How did this girl graduate not just from high school but from junior college?