Post by katt on Sept 4, 2010 4:39:47 GMT -5
Warning: Extreme Venting of Emotions.
So my car battery light came on the other day...then turned off...then turned back on...that has happened before and it was a loose wire, no big deal. So I called the car place as I need some other things looked at too and the earliest they could get me in was Tuesday. Of course. Soooo I was driving home from Shane's house tonight and I had a totally creepy feeling and just felt all on edge and jumpy and stuff. I got a jumpy feeling and turn on my brights and narrowly dodge hitting a plastic chair in the road (
) that was hiding in the shadows and not lit up by my dim headlights (they are always kind of dim, didn't think much of it). Still on edge I am on the highway when my radio starts flickering on and off. Thinking *crap, my battery must be dying for real this time* I hit the button to pop my radio out. Then, less than a minute later, my air bag light turns on. Sh****! I am at this point just praying to make it home safely so that I can deal with it in he morning. Could I get that wish? Of course not! I keep driving slowly and notice my headlights and dashboards lights are getting dimmer and dimmer. Then, less than a minute after the airbag light pops on, it turns off....along with ALL of my other lights. ALL of them. I am now on the highway driving along in the middle of the very dark night with NO headlights, NO blinker, NO hazard lights (I mean, c'mon! At LEAST give me my hazard lights!) , NADDA! (Oh and did I mention that my brakes are very very in need of a change in the next month or less? Just to make me more nervous... 
). So I keep driving praying to make it to the closest exit (naturally, I had just passed what would have probably been the best exit to pull off of safety and proximity to places wise). I can't pull over because, with no hazard lights, on the dark, poorly lit highway (AK street lights suck!) I would probably get hit. I also had/have no flares. I keep driving and my car starts to periodically feel and sound like it is driving through honey. Not really accelerating or slowing down, just sounding like it was having a hard time. I FINALLY get to the next exit (longest few minutes ever!) and realize in complete dismay that I just pulled off into one of the crappiest parts of town. I kind of drift down the road really slow and see a church with a brightly lit sign and pull into there. It was the safest looking parking lot by far, and I mean, it is a church, but it is still a really scary parking lot. By this time I am on the phone with Shane, on the verge of breaking into tears, and I realize I can't park my car. When I tried to put it into park, it would just make a noise like I was constantly applying pressure to the gas pedal. Not a Vrooom Vroom revving, just a Vrooooooooooooooooooo....... I didn't want my car to explode, but I didn't want to turn it off either because I knew that it would not turn back on.
Shane convinced me to call my roommate because she was much closer to me than he was, while he went to go talk to his Dad who knows a bit of this and that about cars. She said she was on her way (I lived maybe 5-10 min from there, I was SO close to making it home!) so I parked my car and turned it off. Then I had to call my boss (I am responsible for opening on Sat am and it is our busiest day so they need me there) and ask for a ride to work and explain what happened. Sometimes, my employers really frustrate me on a professional level, but on a personal level they are really great people. In the meanwhile, homeless people are walking and biking by, a few stray cars are sitting at the cross road of the parking lot, and I am sitting alone with no ability to escape if someone decides to rap on my windows, in a dark parking lot on the middle of a pretty ghetto part of town. Poor Koda 
is sitting in my lap in his carrier bag oh so patiently the whole time and I am freaking out.
Well, my roommate arrives and I try to restart my car and nothing happens. No noise, nadda. Then, when I open the door the interior light turns on and my roommate notices my brake lights working. I unload all of my stuff that I possibly can into her car, then try again and my car just makes a noise like a drill or something. A Clickclickclickclick. Aka battery-still-not-working-noise. So I locked up my car (I forgot my radio though doggone it) and left it all alone in the lot.
Now I have the following things to take care of:
New brakes $300-450
Oil Leak: $300+
Transmission Fluid leak: $300+
New Windshield (it is cracked all the way across and in the winter here that can be bad apparently. Not sure why): $300
New Battery: not sure but my guess is - if I remember right - $100-300
Whatever-the-heck-else-is-wrong-with-my-car: $$$ goodness knows **PRAYS it is NOT engine or Transmission**
TUITION: $2000
Late Fee because the University changed their financial aid policy wthout warning anyone: $250
Koda's Fecal Sample: $45
Koda's potential exam, antibiotics, etc: $$$ 10-200+ ? Oh yes and Rent is due, and my internet bill just came in which means that the light bill is close behind, and my loans have not gone through yet and the texting on my phone is not working with certain carriers. My computer (my $1600 computer) is on its last leg (and has been for a while)and I might be moving which means paying a security - and pet - deposits and increase in rent but I NEED to move because we have black mold problems in this place.
When it rains, it pours...
Sorry for the long vent. I am going to go snuggle Koda Bear and go to bed seeing as how I need to be up in about 4-5 hours...
B.L.A.H. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So my car battery light came on the other day...then turned off...then turned back on...that has happened before and it was a loose wire, no big deal. So I called the car place as I need some other things looked at too and the earliest they could get me in was Tuesday. Of course. Soooo I was driving home from Shane's house tonight and I had a totally creepy feeling and just felt all on edge and jumpy and stuff. I got a jumpy feeling and turn on my brights and narrowly dodge hitting a plastic chair in the road (
) that was hiding in the shadows and not lit up by my dim headlights (they are always kind of dim, didn't think much of it). Still on edge I am on the highway when my radio starts flickering on and off. Thinking *crap, my battery must be dying for real this time* I hit the button to pop my radio out. Then, less than a minute later, my air bag light turns on. Sh****! I am at this point just praying to make it home safely so that I can deal with it in he morning. Could I get that wish? Of course not! I keep driving slowly and notice my headlights and dashboards lights are getting dimmer and dimmer. Then, less than a minute after the airbag light pops on, it turns off....along with ALL of my other lights. ALL of them. I am now on the highway driving along in the middle of the very dark night with NO headlights, NO blinker, NO hazard lights (I mean, c'mon! At LEAST give me my hazard lights!) , NADDA! (Oh and did I mention that my brakes are very very in need of a change in the next month or less? Just to make me more nervous... ). So I keep driving praying to make it to the closest exit (naturally, I had just passed what would have probably been the best exit to pull off of safety and proximity to places wise). I can't pull over because, with no hazard lights, on the dark, poorly lit highway (AK street lights suck!) I would probably get hit. I also had/have no flares. I keep driving and my car starts to periodically feel and sound like it is driving through honey. Not really accelerating or slowing down, just sounding like it was having a hard time. I FINALLY get to the next exit (longest few minutes ever!) and realize in complete dismay that I just pulled off into one of the crappiest parts of town. I kind of drift down the road really slow and see a church with a brightly lit sign and pull into there. It was the safest looking parking lot by far, and I mean, it is a church, but it is still a really scary parking lot. By this time I am on the phone with Shane, on the verge of breaking into tears, and I realize I can't park my car. When I tried to put it into park, it would just make a noise like I was constantly applying pressure to the gas pedal. Not a Vrooom Vroom revving, just a Vrooooooooooooooooooo....... I didn't want my car to explode, but I didn't want to turn it off either because I knew that it would not turn back on. Shane convinced me to call my roommate because she was much closer to me than he was, while he went to go talk to his Dad who knows a bit of this and that about cars. She said she was on her way (I lived maybe 5-10 min from there, I was SO close to making it home!) so I parked my car and turned it off. Then
I had to call my boss (I am responsible for opening on Sat am and it is our busiest day so they need me there) and ask for a ride to work and explain what happened. Sometimes, my employers really frustrate me on a professional level, but on a personal level they are really great people. In the meanwhile, homeless people are walking and biking by, a few stray cars are sitting at the cross road of the parking lot, and I am sitting alone with no ability to escape if someone decides to rap on my windows, in a dark parking lot on the middle of a pretty ghetto part of town. Poor Koda is sitting in my lap in his carrier bag oh so patiently the whole time and I am freaking out. Well, my roommate arrives and I try to restart my car and nothing happens. No noise, nadda. Then, when I open the door the interior light turns on and my roommate notices my brake lights working. I unload all of my stuff that I possibly can into her car, then try again and my car just makes a noise like a drill or something. A Clickclickclickclick. Aka battery-still-not-working-noise. So I locked up my car (I forgot my radio though doggone it) and left it all alone in the lot.
Now I have the following things to take care of:
New brakes $300-450
Oil Leak: $300+
Transmission Fluid leak: $300+
New Windshield (it is cracked all the way across and in the winter here that can be bad apparently. Not sure why): $300
New Battery: not sure but my guess is - if I remember right - $100-300
Whatever-the-heck-else-is-wrong-with-my-car: $$$ goodness knows **PRAYS it is NOT engine or Transmission**
TUITION: $2000
Late Fee because the University changed their financial aid policy wthout warning anyone: $250
Koda's Fecal Sample: $45
Koda's potential exam, antibiotics, etc: $$$ 10-200+ ? Oh yes and Rent is due, and my internet bill just came in which means that the light bill is close behind, and my loans have not gone through yet and the texting on my phone is not working with certain carriers. My computer (my $1600 computer) is on its last leg (and has been for a while)and I might be moving which means paying a security - and pet - deposits and increase in rent but I NEED to move because we have black mold problems in this place.
When it rains, it pours...
Sorry for the long vent. I am going to go snuggle Koda Bear and go to bed seeing as how I need to be up in about 4-5 hours...
B.L.A.H. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or I'd light a couple for myself 
I was very glad to have Koda with me, though I felt bad that he was stuck in his carrier longer than usual. At least he was snoozing most of the time. It felt nice to not be completely alone though - it was really scary being all alone in that neighborhood so late. 
You are sure they don't have financial candles? 
Thank you! I know I haven't met anyone here in person, but I really feel like I have found a great group of very close, and treasured friends. AND friends who will listen to me blab for hour about Koda too! 
Always into trouble that one!