Cold Feet - Purchasing Part 2

We were at the Arabian horse show that year between trips to San Diego when I got cold feet on going through with the motorhome purchase.  There was another week delay as the dealer test drove the coach without securing the engine hatch which promptly blew off on the highway.  They needed to have it repaired and painted.  I guess the wife could have talked me out of it and the salesman offered me an out too if I wasn't comfortable with the deal.  Reverse psychology?  Anyway, we headed back, signed the papers and then took off from San Diego in the afternoon towards Yuma.  When you buy an RV in California from a dealer, they have to deliver it to the state line.  Can't remember the goofy reason why this has to be done, but you end up following your newly purchase rig being driven by a stranger to the state line.  In our case the old guy smoked the brakes from the Jacumba exit heading East to Ocotillo, CA.   Really made me mad.  By the time we got past El Centro it was dark and the old guy pulled off the side of the road to report he couldn't get the generator to work and the alternator wasn't working.  ?   I made him turn around and take it back to the dealer as I wasn't going to take delivery of it with everything going haywire.  He made a U-turn right there  at night in the middle of I-8.  We headed back to Phoenix.  Next blog - Pete and Re-Pete