Why does is seem so much goes wrong all. at. once? You know: when it rains and all that jazz (how's that for mashing a couple of cliches in your face). As I napped on the couch this morning, I had nightmares about the roof of the house leaking and that the window frame by the back door was all crooked and that whole wall had paint bubbling up on it because there was water seeping through. Oh, and there was a cat/chipmunk running around the house and doodle bugs everywhere. Heh.
My car crapped out on me last Friday, sorta'. And Tim's doesn't run because the battery is dead (we hope) and it doesn't matter anyway because the tags are expired and who knows what else. Really, it's mostly about the fact that I don't like to drive his car. It makes me sneeze everytime I get in it. That's it: allergic to the whole car. I digress...
The transmission I've been having issues with since I bought my car over five years ago finally decided to give up the ghost. I spent the afternoon driving, wondering if that time the engine really did fall out of the car, and praying that I could just get to the daycare center and pick up my daughter. We did make it home, by the way; I'm not lying in a ditch somewhere.
Anyway, I ended up having to take it to the dealership because the part would have needed to be recalibrated by a dealer anyway. I got it there at 12:30pm on Saturday and rental car places close at noon. And they aren't open on Sundays - unless you go to the airport. Poop! We had to bum a vehicle off of a friend for the weekend. So this totally negates a couple of items on my thankful list. Well, I guess you could say that I just need to be thankful that I can "afford" to get it fixed. Yeah, it's not like I had that money set aside for anything anyway. I was just running around, tossing it into the air, and wondering what I could ever find to spend it on.
Saturn is definitely going to get a letter from me on this one, though. Customer service, my ass. I've complained about the shifting problem four or five times over the last five years and all they ever did was upgrade my computer software. Good job, Genius. Clearly that fixed the problem. I'm a little confused about what else I should have said to them besides, "It doesn't work right!"
So I went through the hassle of renting a car - why do they always smell like sweatsocks and dogs? And I figured it would be Thursday before they fixed my car since he was skeptical about getting the part on Monday and I figured that once they got the part it would be a day or so before they got around to actually fixing it. At $98/hour why not take your time.
And I should have expected the phone call yesterday telling me they got the wrong part. Poop!
The icing on the cake? Our overflow drain on the air conditioner has water running out of it. And Ainsley is currently on her third round of anitbiotics for two ear infections and she seems to be getting worse. Poop!
5 comments:
The bright side is now you're due a plethora of GOOD things!
Well, Poop! is right. Hope things (and Ainsley) get better.
What kind of shifting problem did you have with your Saturn? Ours clunks really loudly when we put it in reverse, so we brought it up to the dealership when it was still under it's "previously owned" warranty and all they said was, "no, there's nothing wrong with your transmition." Thanks, Saturn. 5 years later and it's STILL clunking when we put it in reverse! Grrr.
It was the TCM (transmission control module, I think).
Just as sometimes we believe in GOD because we need something to believe....one might believe in the astronomy belief that when Mercury goes retrograde, everything in the world is upside down. So many things go 'chaotic' for lack of better words. Maybe we believe in these things because...we need something to blame..or some hope that yes...now you will be blessed with many things going right. You deserve that...this I know.
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