Helllllooooooo?

A hypothetical letter.....

Dear Nissan,
Where are you?
I still have the car. Putting miles on it.

 It's May 26th and 51 days have passed since the arbitration. The representative on the phone said that we should keep making our car payments. When we balked, she promised that Nissan would give them back after we surrender the car. Somehow, we just didn't believe her. We asked for her to put it in writing. She never called back.

Well, at least I'm doing my level best at passive advertising a defective product. My husband says it's embarrassing and would I please scrape the vinyl lettering about the defective Cube off the back window?! I say, not yet. Let's just let a few more thousand people get a chance to read it.

So, we have decided that we'll take the ding on our credit. Although I'll for sure send a copy of the arbitration order to the credit bureaus. And now I have to think about getting a new car. Will I be able to get credit?????? Argh.
Nissan, you're past the due date on the arbitration order. You've made the last 8 months of my life so hectic and wrecked. I loathe you. Even the sound of your name makes me cringe and recoil.

But this all comes down to integrity in the end. I feel good about how I treat others and I haven't had to shift my moral code all around to do it. I have a faith in an afterlife where we will all come face to face with the creator of us. I don't want to say that this moment will be the end-all- be-all of what we did in this life, but it will be an opportunity to reflect back in a way that is free of false memories, misconceptions and forgetfullness. I believe that we will be able to see and feel the impact of our actions in this life. I have a few things I'm not looking forward to, some people I have offended and slighted, I am sure.

 But Nissan people and other big business people who squash innocent folks, do you look forward to that day of reckoning? Do you wonder what it will feel like to feel the pain of everyone you hurt in this life? Will you be uncomfortable when it's impossible to talk your way out of it or try to use logical and legal arguments ina place where they don't hold water? In a place where only the moral and ethical good that you do counts, what will you have to bring to the table? Do you think that a simple sorry will suffice and off you go?

Scarier yet, will you even feel sorry?
Well, I won't waste your time with my philosphy of what happens to bad people. You don't care, believe in it or even have time to read this. But you also won't be able to say I didn't warn you. See you in a few decades in the after life. I've got you in my planner!!!