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P purchased an Explorer from D. According to P, the parties agreed to a sale price of $6,500 with $500 down and interest at three percent. She claims she gave Mr. Reynoso $500 down in cash but never received a receipt for the payment. D claims he agreed to lower the sale price to $8,000 if P agreed to pay $2,000 down. P's boyfriend, Fernando Ortega, gave him $1,800 on June 2, when the agreement was executed, and P brought in the additional $200 the next day. The receipt for the $1,800 payment is undated and numbered 3100; the receipt for the $200 payment is dated June 3, 2000, and numbered 3112. The terms of the contract, as drafted stated that the price of the vehicle is $6,500, the tax and license fee are over $500, and the down payment is $500, for a total price of $6,533. The accountant compiled an amortization schedule for $250 monthly payments and gave a copy to P. This schedule indicates that P's last payment was due in September 2002. D insists P did not want the sales contract to show that the couple had paid $2,000 down. D's daughter, a childhood friend of P, testified that she witnessed the execution of the contract and that P had the idea to write the contract with a price reduced by $2,000 because she did not want Ortega's name to be on the title to the car. P was often late with payments and did not make her December 2001 payment. When she appeared at his office in January 2002 with a $250 payment, he refused it, claiming she owed him for two months. P contends she asserted at that time that her $2,000 payment was made after the sale agreement and lowered her obligation by another $2,000, which would be paid in full by the December 2001 payment. P again offered to pay $250 in February 2002, and Mr. Reynoso again rejected the payment. He repossessed the Explorer in March 2002. P filed a complaint and eventually moved for an order in limine to exclude parol evidence and for judgment on the pleadings. The motions were denied, and the court entered judgment for D. P appealed.

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