Yesterday afternoon the brake and battery lights in our car kept coming on. It would come and go. this happened months ago and we ended up buying a new battery and things were fine. Today I risked going out w/ the kids to the mall for a concert and the car did find on the way, the lights coming on and off. I was frustrated when we got there the concert was not there. Not sure what was up with that, there should have been one, I checked the schedule this morning. So we had packed our lunch so we played at the indoor playground and ate our lunch.
The drive home is about 20 minutes from where we were. As we hit the exit ramp for 695 the lights remained on and the mph and rpm gauges went nuts. Finally they stayed at zero. the radio was out, the a/c was off, because Dean told me to turn both off. Shortly after the gauges zeroed out the clock light went off and I got stuck in stopped traffic w/ no shoulder to pull over to. The first exit was to get onto 295 and I didnt want that at all. I finally got a spot with a small area of shoulder and pulled over. I put the windows down and called Dean. i forgot to turn the keys all the way off, and I didnt notice til I heard the cut shut off. I turned the keys off then tried to start again, there was nothing. it wouldnt do anything. I couldnt get enough power to roll up the windows or even get the clock to come on. In tears and completely stressed out I called our car insurance to find out about roadside coveragee, unfortunately we had to get towed and then get reimbursed. Dean found me a tow and it was there in about 5-10 minutes. They took the kids, I and the car to the shop. Dean met us there. The car started after we got there so who knows what is wrong.
We had no money when our washer died a week or so ago, so we charged a new one. We had to take the car to meineke because we have a credit card for there too. I am so stressed. we have no savings and we’re barely paying the bills we have now. Now we’re going to have lots more bills to pay. I am an emotional mess and dont know what we are going to do. I know we’ll get by, but when things go wrong for us, it always happens in a lot of ways at once. I was already stressed about bills and awaiting for test results from some labwork I got done this week and now we sit and wait to see what the shop says when they call. Luckily friends are letting us borrow their second car this weekend, which I hate doing. I hate to put money into the car when we know in 6 months or so we’re trading it in for a van. We’d do that now except we need our tax money to help us with that. that was the plan, get our tax money, trade in the car and use some tax money so we’ll have a really low monthly payment on a minivan. I so need a vacation from the stress of dealing with this crap. I know we’ll be fine and that God will provide but it’s still hard to deal with so much at one time. I hate not knowing where the money is going to come from or what the best thing to do is. at this point I dont even know if we can trade the car in until it’s operable. Blah!!! at least it’s Friday!!!
