With apologies to Agatha Christie and prostitutes
For those of you with short-term memory loss, or new readers, here’s the tragic tale to this point.
Things are…let’s see, how can I put this? If my life sucked any more, I’d be a black hole. LOL
There seems to be some unwritten law of the universe, that Middle Son and I can not BOTH have working vehicles. At the moment, NEITHER of us does.
He buys a car, mine goes in the shop. My car is running, something breaks on his.
It’s been this way since he bought his car. Then he got in a wreck about three weeks ago. His car was at the shop, but it was his girlfriend’s birthday, so I let him drive my car to see her. He returned home around 10:30 PM, and called out… “I hate to tell you this…”
Seems that upon picking up girlfriend to go out for a bite to eat, the car (my car) developed some problems. It would go forward, but only slowly, refusing to shift to a higher gear.
I have no money to repair the transmission, and Middle Son spent all his money getting his car repaired from the wreck. So I’ve had no car for 3 weeks.
Three.
Long.
Weeks.
LOL
On Saturday, he was heading to work at McDonalds, and he called, saying his car died between here and there. Husband was off, so I drove his car down and picked Middle Son up. Took him to McDonalds then picked him up at the end of his shift. We went back to where Middle Son’s car was, and it still wouldn’t start, so he had to call a tow truck and have it taken to the mechanic’s. He begged someone to work his shift today at McDonald’s, and we are waiting to hear what the mechanic says is wrong with his car.
So at the moment we have zero cars here LOL
Lots of rain though. Yep, lots and lots of rain. Ain’t nothin’ that makes being stuck in the house with a sullen youngen, just ever so much better, like ceaseless dreary weather. Yes-sir-ee, good times. LOL
I did get a mighty fine chuckle from watching a Wanda Sykes special on HBO the other night. I will leave you this day with her funnies, as my funnies are few - LOL!
I think I need some Funny 2.0.
Paraphrasing:
We need to bring our men and women back from Iraq. It’s a waste! What good’s it gonna do? So what if we do help them have elections? They’ll probably just vote in some jackass who’ll screw up their country…we did!
Look at what our government’s done to Medicare. Scarin’ all them old people, tellin’ them they have to sign up by the deadline or lose their benefits. I’ve got elderly aunts, I don’t want to see them out there on the street corner, hookin’ for their ‘scripts! Can’t you just see it? (Assumes person of a hunched over old woman) “Ummm, excuse me? Hand job for a Fosamex?”
Posted by Marti @ 
Oh my. Yeah nowadays without some wheels makes one feel like you lost your legs or something. It is hard without a car. Anyway, I like how you still have this positive attitude over all this things!
October 16th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Good grief Marti!! That stinks!!! However, the Wanda Sykes stuff is hilarious!!! BTW, you are SO right, I should have asked the salesperson if it would hold a dead body… that’d have been great.
October 16th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Oh man, Marti, that SUCKS!! I live in the country too, so I realize that it’s not a matter of just catching the bus–no car=going NOWHERE.
LMAO at the Wanda Sykes–hope the boss didn’t hear me, lol.
October 17th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
LOL, I nearly spit up my green tea!
October 17th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
I really feel for you guys and the car situation. When i was younger and in school, i always seemed to own a POS. And i would always be the one driving someone else’s car when it would break down too. Cars dont like me. At all. I hope that it all works out for you tho, not having a vehicle surely sucks!
October 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Good luck Marti, that wreck your son bought has a curse on it … burn it… preferably with a wooden stake driven through it’s heart.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Best of luck with the car woes. I’m feeling pretty at-loose-ends because my computer’s messed up. What a bummer! I’m using my mom’s right now,and getting mighty spoiled in the process. She has a much nicer computer.
I’ve never heard of Wanda Sykes–she’s funny!
October 18th, 2006 at 9:56 am
You may have seen her on Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David, on HBO.
Her website is at:
http://www.wandasykes.com/
I tell ya, I laughed harder than I have laughed in a LONG time, watching that special! LOL
October 18th, 2006 at 11:03 am