Thursday, March 02, 2006

I almost forgot about the car

I did get a new (to me) car. I ended up buying my nefews car, a blue camry. It's way too small has no air or radio and has one white door. Not that I'm complaining that my brother Kevin ripped me off or anything. But, he could have dropped the price down to what the car is actually worth. It also needs (right away) an alignment, balance and rotation of the wheels and two new side view mirrors. Oh and did I mention the breaks need new rotors?
Anyway it's a cute (read that - small) car that will get me to work and scouts and anywhere else I need to go.

I went last saturday to do the wheel stuff to the same place I got my tires at for my last car. The guy tells us (Scout, Baby, and I) that it will be about 1 1/2 to two hours. So we walked accross the six lanes of traffic to a plaza and window shopped at Radio Shack and Goodwill. Found nothing. About an hour and a half later we make it back across the street (keep in mind that I did not have my stroller for the baby and I was exhasted from holding him). Only to see my car still parked in the same spot. So I go in and ask what is going on and he tells me he will check on it. Ten minutes later he comes back and says they are working on it now. So we sit in the waiting room and watch some t.v. Scout had changed the channel and then the guy changed it back. Never even asked if we were watching it or anything! So Baby was getting into too much stuff and falling off chairs so I thought I would take him outside. Lo and behold when I get outside My car is still sitting there. So I march back in and ask him what is going on and he goes outside to check. He comes back in and informs me that my car keys started up another camry and that is where the mistake was.

Wait a minute, did he just say my keys started up another car? I didn't think that that was possible. So he tells me that I will have to wait a little longer and I told him that I need to go and that I would be back some other day when there was not another camry to confuse my car with. Damn I was pissed. The baby needed changed and Scout wanted to go to the mall. I hadn't had a car for a week and I had to waste 2 hours on a Saturday to get nothing done.

I still have not gotted the thing fixed and now my key is acting up. It is really difficult to put in and I spend five minutes trying every time I get into that car. So, do I go back to the same place or forget about him and go somewhere else?

I am happy to have wheels again and maybe I am just stressed about the whole ordeal but my goodness will something go right for once?

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