I have been thinking about this since last Thursday. I got my ID renewed and I found myself crying for 30 minutes by myself as my lasagna was getting cold! I knew that I was extremely tired but it wasn’t until today that I family realized why! Here it is:
This all took days for me to realize but before we went to the Secretary of State, we stopped off at Les Stanford to get a license plate that my Mom needed to get.
My Mom walked back to the van with Ali Reda!
I have known Ali Reda since he was a salesman at Bill Wink Chevrolet. That dealership was walking distance from my house growing up. Once I learned how to drive, I used to drive the car there and walk back to my house while it got its oil changed or whatever.
My Dad bought all of his cars from that dealership and he had his preferred salesman, Bob Kapp. I remember being in the market for a new car and that salesman had left but I still lived in my Parents’ house. I asked one of the service guys to direct me to a different salesman and he told me Ali Reda.
I have bought two cars from Ali this far. I leased a car and then I bought the car I currently own. I haven’t seen him in so long and he came to the van door and I smiled brightly!
But I could not trust myself to say anything because I was definitely going to start to cry. I was a far distance from the young woman who purchased two cars from him as I sat there sitting in my power chair strapped to the floor of the van.
Things have changed for me so much since I last purchased a vehicle from him and I think that’s the reason that I was crying when my Mom took the van back. I ate cold lasagna that night.