Brought the Jetta back to the dealership today, terminating the lease a couple of weeks early… it’s already paid for and some might thing it foolish to not keep it around the last couple of weeks, but having three cars on my insurance cranked it up a bunch of money. Not to mention that it was already low on gas – why bother filling it? Having a 6-speed has been fun but it is a VR6 and gas is rather pricy. Not to mention that I had the inspection this week… why wait? Besides, the dealership was happy to have it back, anyway: the thing had under 17,500 miles (after 36 months) and was in good shape, aside from the scratch on the passenger wheel well, complete with an entire log of maintenance records. Someone that works for that dealership is going to be happy to get that car at wholesale!

Is it odd or ironic that the smoothest trip to this dealership was the trip where I return the car?
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