I can deal with the fact that my boss is going to drive me crazy on a daily basis.
I can deal with the fact that until I graduate from graduate school I will be broke as a joke.
I can even deal with the fact that it is easier to find a Unicorn sitting at the bar having a Labette Blue Light then it is to meet a decent single straight guy in Chicago.
However, everyone has their braking point and I hit it today.
My mom gave me the Honda. The Honda is 12 years old and has 180,000 miles on it. (My aunt had it up at U of M, I had it at State, Allie had it at Northern). It’s a great car, but we wanted the brakes checked out.
I learned this morning that sometime in the near future I will need to spend about $1,000.00 on new brakes. This is in addition to the $7,000.00 + we have already put into the car in the 8 years we have owned it.
OK, that made me sick to my stomach, but again…..I could deal.
As I was leaving the auto care place I realized it was hot inside the Honda, so it hit the window down button….and the fricken window FELL DOWN INTO THE DOOR!!!!!!!!!
I wasn’t even out of the stupid parking lot. So, I pull the car back into the auto garage and walk up to the nice man who checked me out.
Seriously people, I heard the carnie music as I the window was falling into the car. It kind of happened in slow motion, and when it happened I knew it was going to be an expensive window.
While all this is happening, my boss is on the phone bitching at me…b/c that’s what I needed. Look buddy. In August you took three vacations, give me this 1 ½ hrs ok!!
The mechanic tells me they can get the window back up, and if it needs to…tape it to hold it up.
It took 35 minutes for the mechanic to take the inside of my door up, try and get the window up, get the window up and tape it. Then he comes over and tells me that the part that is broken (fancy word for the part that makes the window go up and down) will cost me $300.00 without labor.
So we’re looking at another $1,500.00. Deej has informed me it’s not worth it and we’re going to try and sell the car.
For the time being I am going to be using the Explorer, but eventually we’re hoping to trade in the two Explorers, Honda and my mom’s Sable and get two gas efficient cars.
When that happens I will be signing my sole over to my mother in blood. I will never be able to say no when she asks for something again. EVER.
By the way, all of this happened before 10:00 a.m. If you need me, I am going to be at the bar……….
…………..with the unicorn.
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