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What in the hell?
Seriously when it rains it pours & it has been raining on me for awhile.
There just comes a point when you give up.....
I've reached that point.
So this weekend was princess' birthday.
Suppossed to be a good weekend.
We got up, got breakfast, I washed some clothes and piddled around the house a bit, then we got dressed & went on our merry way.
We went and picked up her balloons & cake.
My mom met us at walmart with her cooler so that I could run in and get the cake and leave the car running so the balloons didn't pop in the middle-east temperatures.
I get back out to my car and start to put it in drive when I just turned the car off.
my mom looked at me funny.
"We're not going anywhere"
"Why?"
"Cause my stupid car is over-heating"
"Well drive it to the other side of the parking lot, it's probably just because it's been sitting here sucking nothing but hot air, it should cool down"
So I started driving..sure enough the temp went back down...slowly but it went back down.
We got back to the house and I let the car cool down as much as possible with it being 98 outside, and I put some more coolant in it. I filled the reserve tank up but couldn't get any in the radiator itself cause it was still pretty hot....
We load everything in the car and head to her party.
It starts making his god awful noise with the ac on....timing belt...great isn't that all I need right now, especially after paying $200 plus for her party....so we get on the interstate and I checked the temp.....good.
We merge and shortly before the exit I hear "ding". I didn't think much of it at first cause there's a short in my airbag light and it goes off & on....
Then I looked down....
The temp gauge is in the red & when I looked back up smoke is pouring out from under the hood.
This is not happening.
Luckily this is one of the very rare times that I wasn't in the far left lane, I was actually in the far right lane.
So I flipped on my hazard lights and hit the shoulder.
I called my mom in a tissy while I'm watching my car smoke like a chimney. She tells me to take a deep breath and call AAA.
I rolled my window lit a cigarette and made the call. Thank God the girl was nice. I couldn't imagine working there, you gotta figure 99% of the people who call are in a bad ass mood cause their car broke down. I was no exception, but i wasn't rude (For once...lol)
I told her I needed a tow truck, gave her my number, did all the other crap you gotta do...then I told her the situation...
"If they could hurry that would be great, I'm on the side of 40 with my daughter & we were on our way to her birthday party"
The poor girl on the other end wasn't sure what to say...she did bump us to a priority since we were on the side of the interstate.
I would like you to know that while me and Princess sat on the shoulder of the interstate 3 fucking cops blew by us and not one of those fuckers stopped...assholes...
My mom came and got Princess and took her to her party while I sat there and waited on AAA.
You know the only person that stopped was looking for I-81 north.....jerk-offs...
I finally got to her party, not that anyone missed me or waited for me to get there to start playing. All in all she had fun and that's all that matters right?!?
Oh there was an evil little girl there..but that's a whole other blog for a different time.
Anyways, I get home and heat something up for dinner and what happens?!? My microwave conks out.
I've managed to kill my car and my fucking microwave all in one day.....can it get any worse???
Anyways, princess decides she wants to stay at nana's for the night which isn't a problem.
She wanted to go to splash country yesterday but I didn't see how exactly that was gonna work...seeing as how I have no fucking car now..
My mom said that she would take us and drop us off...oh God it's like I'm 15 again. No, I don't want to be dropped off anywhere.
Well my mom apparently thinks about it for awhile and calls me back.
Princess has obviously gotten to her cause she's now agreed to go with us..
So on our way up there we're sitting at a red light when my mom says "I think it's you"
You guessed it, her car started running hot.
I give up.....I guess I'm gonna start riding the bus...or maybe just walking.
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Posted by Mamacita925 on 2008-07-21 09:24:32 | Rating: | Views: 69
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Funny (peculiar, not ha ha) how these things happen in bunches. I feel for ya, girl!
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Posted by BootLady
on 2008-07-21 09:35:35
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oh wow that sucks.... see your so hott you over heat the vehicle your in!! see at least that made you rol your eyes at me... lol I am sory all that happened.
I hope things turn around for you.
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Posted by DouglasMB
on 2008-07-21 09:49:41
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Boot - you're not kidding..this shit always happens like that, at least to me.
Doug - I did infact roll my eyes @ u!! lol
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Posted by Mamacita925
on 2008-07-21 10:08:56
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What a bummer! It isn't you!!!
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Posted by KarKar
on 2008-07-21 10:39:41
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It's not you. It was one of those weekends, my friends hit something on the road and all of their oil leaked out which they didn't realize until the car just turned off. I hope things get better.
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Posted by prelude2it
on 2008-07-21 10:46:54
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Aww mama! You can't win girl.. and your right when it does rain, it pours. It comes in 3s though so it's gotta be over soon.
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Posted by LadiLucifer
on 2008-07-21 11:05:45
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Damn, that's a whole lotta stuff happening to one person! Hope it gets better for you.
I thought about sending you text on Friday night from LadieGodiva's party but I knew that you had a big day ahead of you & didn't want to wake you.
Did you at least have fun at the waterpark?
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Posted by Mandie142
on 2008-07-21 15:21:38
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My Dad is a mechanic, so when my car breaks down I get really really shitty.... So I can relate to your story here. Too bad it wasn't just a story.
I hope you've got your car back by the time you read this comment.... and Oh lately I've been driving on the far left even when I have to be turning left up ahead... and everytime I do it, I think of you and say to myself, if this doesn't work it's M's fault! lol.
Affectionately of course! :)
Hope your luck has changed ... if not here's some pixie dust to help .... *blows pixie dust on the screen*
xx
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Posted by EasyToSay
on 2008-07-27 03:24:09
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