Down We Go Again

Originally posted December 27/2006 on "Allison Wonderland"


Grrrr.

OK, so the money for fixing the car coming in just when we needed it? Still the Miracle on Cornwall Ave. But there are still obstacles to getting it done, and I can't help being just a little upset by it all... mostly because AJ seems like he's about ready to have a nervous breakdown- and he doesn't even know how to cry.

He put more transmission fluid in the car this morning (using our makeshift funnel- half a Coke bottle) and got the car to Canadian Tire, no problem. Yeah, I know, it's Canadian Tire, but he called Ford this morning and the service department is STILL on holidays. I guess the weekend wasn't long enough... anyway, CT was pretty backed up, but they thought they'd be able to get it done by 5. Good thing, since I have to be at work by 6. Too bad they have to get the part from FORD... which is CLOSED...

No car fixin' for us today.

Thank God (once again) for good friends. C or J will be picking AJ up at work tonight, bringing him home and taking me to work. We're giving them gas money (though J said not to worry about it), and it'll be way cheaper than the $40 it would have cost us to take taxis tonight. I don't know what we'd do without them, or without our other friends (JP squared) who have also helped us out with the car thing. I hope we can repay the favours some time, though I'm NOT hoping that their cars break down. No-no-no. Some other favour, maybe. House-sitting, cat-sitting... slashing the tires of people who piss them off... that kind of thing.

I'm working 11-4 tomorrow, so I'll take a bus in, then get one from the mall to Mount Pearl after work and pick up the car.

I hope...