The seat-of-the-pants feeling of speed was enough for her, and often it’s good enough for us DBAs too. She couldn’t hear me because I was in the back seat and she was negotiating price with the sales guy. Besides, let’s bring it back to numbers – let’s measure how fast the base version is to 60mph, and then measure the turbo version.” Let’s not spend the extra money if we’re not getting extra capacity. You’re never going to go that fast, and I know because you yell at me when I take highway on-ramps that fast. “No no no,” I was saying, “You don’t need that. Suddenly, I felt like a SAN administrator and Erika was the DBA. You – and by you I mean we – don’t need a turbo.”Īs soon as she accelerated onto a highway on-ramp, felt the power surge, and heard the turbo whistle, that was the end of that. Me: “You were just saying how this one is so much peppier than yours. We took a test drive of the base model, and then the sales guy asked, “Do you wanna also test drive the 1.8L Turbo version?” The choice of a Jetta was already a foregone conclusion – she loved VWs at the time – and it was just a matter of picking out colors and options. A few years ago, Erika and I went to the VW dealership to trade in her old Jetta and get a new one.
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