When a Denver-area TikTok user named CJ realized she would soon have to replace her wrecked Toyota, she had one problem beyond choosing the right vehicle: she did not trust herself to negotiate with a car dealership alone.
“Can I borrow someone’s dad or husband to go with me to buy a car in Denver?” she wrote over a video of herself sitting inside a vehicle.
There was a reason she could not simply bring one of her own.