Really? That’s all you took away from it? Well, seems to me the now old man in the story, who apparently once saw much better days, has returned from whatever misfortune life visited upon him and is reclaiming his life and his wife on Christmas Eve. I thought it was kinda sweet. But I’m a softy...I don’t care what anyone says. ;)
So he left the wife years ago but never told her about the large sum of money he left in the car- which she might have been able to use at some time in her life? And then he over pays for the car by $800 and yet he was gonna go back to his wife and see that she didn’t have to go into a nursing home. Was he a millionaire or something?