Wednesday, September 22, 2004
In college, we had a saying about music majors (who seemed to be the most analretentive class of students at our school): "If you gave a music major a car, she'd complain about the color."
Maybe I should change that to "If you gave an Oprah fan a car, she'd complain about the color."
Or the taxes, anyway.
Oprah's car giveaway not totally 'free'.
The essence of the story is that some winners are now complaining that
The horror! They might have to pay out about $7,000 for a $25,000 car. Sounds like a heck of a bargain to me -- and I bet you could get a pretty low payment loan on the deal.
But, Oprah gals have often struck me as being of the Music Major persona, so it isn't too surprising.