KMS
11-13-2009, 11:10 AM
Allow me to complain about car trouble for a minute, please! We just had to get a bunch of stuff done to Chad's truck for about $1,000 (it was stalling out and just darn near about to break down completely) then we go to get some tires looked at on my car and it turns out that we need 4 new tires...another $500 gone. We had been going back and forth with a shop that had messed up on my car months ago and wanted them to replace a headlamp casing that had flown off of my car on the highway. We finally gave up, ordered one, and installed the stupid thing ourselves. That was $300. My inspection was past due because we were trying to get all of this stuff figured out with the shop (I've been bumming rides from friends all these months) so Chad was finally driving to go get it inspected and gets pulled over. Are you kidding me? Talk about bad timing! He gets a ticket and then proceeds on to the inspection place. Well, my windshield was cracked on the drivers side so they said we had to get a new windshield because of the spot where it was cracked. That's such b.s. since I've gotten it inspected 4 times with the same crack. Grrr! Another $250. We also had to replace the cover on the turn signal...$60. Oh, then Chad gets pulled over again on the way back to the inspection place! No ticket since he had just gotten one and explained to the cop what had happened...thanks Mr Nice Cop. Then we had to pay for the $15 inspection and $60 for Chad's registration.
Over $2,000 later and one nearly maxed out credit card, we have two working cars. I'm thankful that we have those two cars and that they're running, etc. Houston has horrible public transportation so there's not much of a choice to have the two vehicles with our different schedules. I've been walking a few miles back and forth to work which was fine before, but my growing tummy was getting quite tired of the walk and then walking and standing for 8 hours at work. It's just bad timing with our recent move and the baby on the way. It's just a huge strain on the finances right now. We'll start paying off that credit card as quickly as we can, I guess.
Vent over! Thank for you listening! ;)
Over $2,000 later and one nearly maxed out credit card, we have two working cars. I'm thankful that we have those two cars and that they're running, etc. Houston has horrible public transportation so there's not much of a choice to have the two vehicles with our different schedules. I've been walking a few miles back and forth to work which was fine before, but my growing tummy was getting quite tired of the walk and then walking and standing for 8 hours at work. It's just bad timing with our recent move and the baby on the way. It's just a huge strain on the finances right now. We'll start paying off that credit card as quickly as we can, I guess.
Vent over! Thank for you listening! ;)