The Weight of Money

And the car saga begins — or is it simply a continuation? My car has been recently spotlighted here too many times and it looks like all my reluctance and concerns were valid.

Friday morning, running late for work, I found an ominous puddle spreading out from under my car. The water pump appears to have given up overnight admist the below freezing temperatures. The partner called for a tow to the shop that treated my so well last time and I’m expecting the estimate call today.

Thankfully I can use mass transit to get to work and, other than the disconcerting feeling of being car-less, it doesn’t cause any hardships to have it in the shop for a few days.

Yet, this unexpected situation comes just a week or so after getting it tagged and titled in state (the content of my previous debates). I feel like I’m at the top of the slippery slope where everything is downhill from here. I remind myself that my car is the best vehicle we own. Our two other vehicles seem to teeter on the edge of operable and failure. We’ve already agreed that vehicle #2 (the “family car”) will be disposed of the next time it breaks because we’re not putting any more money into it. Vehicle #3 goes to emission testing this week and there is an air of unstated concern as to whether or not it’ll actually pass. I’ll have faith that we’ll still have at least two working vehicles when 2007 starts.

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