Awesome (Hopefully)

I'm pretty sure I just got rid of $100-$150 a month (depending on how long the month is) in bills. Basically, I bought my car back on October 22, after the fuel pump in the Z died, and being too drained of cash from living with Sarah to fix it, and it got towed away, never to be seen again. I miss that car. Anyway, the original pprice of the car was $3000, but after we found out that my band wouldn't loan me anywhere near that, the guy I bought it from dropped it to $2500. So with $1300 from my bank, that goes down to 1200, but since we were originally told the loan would be for $1370, I had to drop another 70 right there, bringing it down to 1130. Ever since then, I've paid the guy fifty bucks every time I've gotten paid, and between the checks for October 21, 2004 and August 25, 2005, that's 23 payments at fifty bucks a pop, totalling $1150, or twenty bucks more than I owed him. Add to that the fact that there might have been a few other $20-ish payments in those first few days that I've forgotten about, and my glorious 1997 Nissan Sentra GXE is not only paid, but anywhere between $20 and $120 OVERpaid. Fuck it, I can live with that. We'll just call it interest. So outside of the 50-ish a month I'm paying the bank, my car is paid for, at least on the seller's end.
But here's where it gets complicated. Several months back, the dude met me at work and told me he was going out of town for a couple weeks, and that I could just leave the bi-weekly fifty with his lawyer every payday. Alright. So a couple weeks pass, and I never hear from the dude again. No phonecalls, no meeting with me at work, no answers when I try to call him, and either he hasn't answered his door or parked his truck where he lives in a long time, or someone else lives in his old apartment. So his whereabouts are a total mystery to me now. I should ask lawyer dude about it. Hmm. Anyway... What's worse is that the last time I saw him, he mentioned something about the cart costing $3000, so he had either forgotten that he dropped the price or was trying to fuck me. I mentioned that he dropped it to 2500, and he said we could figure that out later, and of course, I haven't seenn him since. Overall, though, it's no biggie, since if he does show up wanting another 500 bucks, I have a tag reciept and the bank has a photocopy of the old title saying the price was 2500, so it won't make it to court, and if it does, I'll win. So yeah. One of the two car payments is gone, and I've got an extra hundred to play with every month. Think I might buy some pants.