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Fun on the Highway
The car bucks, RPMS double. WTF?! Flashers on, but it seems to be doing okay, so I move to the left lane of the highway to do the a-hole and pass by everyone through the construction. Power steering goes, dash lites all come on. I cross my fingers that I can get the car to roll past the guardrail so there's room for me to pull over. Score. The truckers are beeping and waving, some people are scowling...I'll give them a break, it was early. Forty five minutes later, when I can't feel my hands, the tow truck shows up. Guy says it sounds like the serpentine belt (who knew the Jiffy Lube guys had a clue?) and we go to the garage. My mechanic says it should be done in 15 minutes. But it's not the serpentine belt...it may be the timing belt and won't be done by at least the end of the day. Aren't those things stupidly expensive? So now I'm stuck home all day. I need to get a ride to my INTERVIEW and get over to a friend's for dinner tonite. Couldn't it happen on a day when I had nothing to do? Maybe when I was hung over and wanted to sleep the afternoon away? Maybe on a day when I found a couple hundred dollars on the sidewalk so that I could pay for the repairs?!?
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