New Britain herald., 1929-02-16
ANDY'S OPINIONS
 ON PART PAYMENTS
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 Dear Mary Ann.
 Az you are thinking of buying Ras wagon on miscellaneous you are asking me to dish you . line (ai- though you know you'll hafta take tt with many grains of salt) on this "easy payments but hard to meet them" plan. This plan, Mary. ts one In which salesman talks you into buying a buggy you can't afford and after the first payment he in- stalls it in your name and later you stall him into thinking he can col- lect the following payments on time. Its just one stall after an- other, with the engine doing Its share.
 Most installment plan busses are run on gas, oil. state roads, and the money you held out on the landlord for last months rent. When pur- chasing on this plan the ones to suffer are the grocer. tailor. baker. pedestrian, and the installments due on the radio, furniture, vacuum cleaner washing machine. and the kitchen range. But what is one mans green peppers Is the repair mans honey. It gives you something to. work for, your creditors some- thing to worry over. and the neigh bors something to talk about.
 If 1t wasn't for this plan most people would spend their holidays of cooped up behind . steering of cooped up behin d a steering wheel and cutting up capers. such as doing loop-the-loops. etc.. with. out the aid of any apparatus what ever. It has done more to bring people out in the open than the mosouitos that squeeze through house screens on a hot summer | night. A sort of pay as you ride" plan. and if you don't ride you pay anyways. If you practically live in your buggy it's like paying rent. The only difference between living in your bus and a tenement is that in the bus you move more often. When tired of moving you can al- ways stop, especially when loco- motive or something gets in your way.
 If your bus loses the argument md becomes 50 wrecked that you cant even get a chug outa the horn, you'll still hafta meet the payments. Which Is like buying hay and oats for . horse that's already dead. eome guy claims it's like being mar ried, excepting that you don't hafta hand over the weekly pay envelope the rest of your life. (Others claim its better than being married. be- cause if you can't support it they obligingly take it awayD Most in- Etallment buggies come fully equipped with everything but sec- ond mortgage and the hilarious rear r-seat driver. The extras are optional, and 50 is the upkeep.
 By the time you got your chariot paid for 1t has become 50 rundown hnd shabby that you need . new pne. You'd probably be content with it if the next door neighbo. aidn't hand you the merry raspber- ries as he whizzes by in his newer model, leaving you as happy as the .aloot whose wife gives him one night off a week SOS he can spend It at the dentists. and your bus looking like something that had barely sneaked past the alley lead Ing to the dump scrap metal hero signs in the auto cemetery.
 This plan has proved so popular hat you can even get a second- hand pedestrian chaser that way. The only lad I knew who came out ahead on one Of these tubs was the (imbo who paid 25 berries for one md was paid 30 by a neighbor to keep it off the streets. In closing. Mary, I'm broadcasting no news on (Ae high school steps in saying that