Side Salad rolls out the welcome mat to a new reader, Helen, over at Everyday Stranger.
It's worth a visit to read about her horrific experiences with a used VW Bug she bought:
Monday this week, it all went horribly wrong. I was stuck in a traffic jam for 50 minutes. 40 of those minutes were spent with the brake light on and the car beeping at me with a high pitched beep in regular intervals of three times every two minutes. I couldn't turn around, I couldn't pull over, I was simply stuck in traffic. So it should come as no surprise that when I got home I was in a rage not seen since...oh, maybe a week ago (I tend to be a very angry person). I got out of the car, screaming, throwing the manual at the car. My partner unit just calmly observed me from the yard.
I can't tell you how comforting it is to read such things in light of my purchase of a new VW Jetta wagon in March.