Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob...
I have an older car, and by older I mean 12 yrs and 135,000 miles. It's a Mecury Sable, and it doesn't like me anymore.
A few weeks back, the car left my wife and I stranded some 20 minutes away from home. Refused to start. So we had it towed, payed to have the fuel pump and distributor replaced. (Cha ching.) I toyed with the idea of just dumping the stupid thing and getting a newer car. But I hate having debt of any kind and figured we'd just keep that thing going until we could afford a better car...
Oops.
This morning, the car won't start again. Exact same symptoms as before. Ugh. Normally, since Carrie works so close to home, it would be easy to just drop her off at work early and head to work myself. Unfortunately, today she had to go to central office and fill out some paperwork, attend another meeting elsewhere, etc. So she needed the car. Also, she couldn't take me to work and head back, because while it takes me less than 20 minutes to get to work, driving back into the city (I commute to the suburbs, if you can believe that) would probably take 40 minutes. So that was also not an option.
So here I sit, waiting for a parental unit to pick me up and take me to work. Tomorrow shouldn't be a probably with just the one car, but you never know...
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