"New" car.

We recently bought Ben a "new" car, and by that I mean a brand-spankin'-11-year-old Honda Civic. (All we had to do was slap a fancy car stereo in there and he couldn't be happier.) The process of searching online for a halfway reliable car in the $2,000 range was eye-opening, and at times hysterical. Some choice quotes from Craig's List postings that we did not pursue:

"Only backs up, will not go forward."

"The car isn't loud, it has a nice tone to it."

"Of course it has rust!"

"$150 or best offer."

I'm sure, somewhere, someone is reading each one of these ads and thinking - "gold mine!"