You get what you get…

…and you don’t get upset.  That’s a big saying around my house, and I think it applies quite nicely to Saab.

Some years ago I walked into a Saab dealership, hoping to cut a deal on a car.  Fifteen minutes later I walked out of said dealership absolutely stunned: these were the most arrogant and unyielding people I had ever encountered.  The sales people made it abundantly clear that they believed bargaining to be beneath them, and that the Saab was God’s gift to the masses and should be regarded as such. 

Guess what?  Saab, the “quirky little Swedish carmaker” now stands on the precipice of extinction (Time).  Oh how the mighty have fallen.

No room for smug in post-recession America.  You get what you get…