“Fraught, that vogue word meaning heavily
complicated with the possibility of an unhappy ending, fraught is what
everything having to do with buying a car is. Along with the fear of being made
a fool of goes that of being treated as if one were a child. Some years ago a
car salesman told me that he wanted to find a car for me in which I’d feel
comfortable. ‘What would make me feel a lot more comfortable,’ I told him, ‘is
if you’d lower your price a few grand.’ ‘Right,’ he said, ‘no problem,’ and
then scarcely budged on his price.”—American essayist and editor Joseph
Epstein, “Dancing With Wolves,” The Weekly Standard, Feb. 13, 2012
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