Monday, January 14, 2008

Bipolar

Our car is seriously bipolar. I've posted before about our car having problems, but today was not a good car day for me. At noon Baylee and I were getting ready to go to a Young Women's lunch (I now work with the Young Women in our church), and what a surprise, the car won't start. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries, so I keep trying. I popped the hood and moved around some wires like Ben does. I tried starting it a few more times, and then gave up, since it had been too long for me to make it to lunch. I was disappointed because I haven't made it to anything outside of Sunday church, and I had Baylee dressed very cute. So, fast forward to 2:30. Baylee is asleep on the cuddlesac, and it's time to go to work. Not wanting to miss work if I don't have to, I go out to see if by some miracle the car is in a better mood and wants to cooperate. Horray! It started right up! So, I get everything together to go to work, strap Baylee into her carseat (waking her up in the process), and back out of the driveway. Suddenly, the car is no longer in a good mood and decides it just would rather hang out right in the middle of the street. It won't start up again, so I got out and pushed it. However, not having anyone to steer for me, I go to stop and the car keeps going and front left tire hits the curb, leaving the car still in the road at a diagnol. So, I try to push it backwards. Too bad I am a wimp and it wouldn't move. It won't move and it won't start so I can move it. What do I do? I call Ben and start to shed a couple of tears in my frustration. He tells me to just leave it, but with our nieghbors I don't want to. So, after trying for about 20-25 minutes, I finally get the car to run enough for me straighten it against the curb, although it's facing the wrong way. So that's where it currently sits. It probably would have made it to work, but I kinda don't trust it right now. I have trust issues.... Ben said I could look for a car online and we can go shopping for one tonight.

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