I guess it's now my turn to get the short end...

[angllady2]

That sounds just like my life.

For what it's worth, cars do suck. I've spent enough to buy a ferrari on lousy cars that just nickle and dime you to death. I've had to help my hubby replace more than a few ball joints over the years, and it's a dirty, hard job.

I am sorry this happened to you. Sometimes it just seems like everything gangs up on you all at one time. For me it happened in the last two weeks. First my mom broke her hip and had to have surgery, and she lives 90 minutes away. I've been driving back and forth every couple of days, and my mini van gets maybe 20 miles to the gallon. Then, two days after she gets transferred to inpatient physical therapy, I'm on my way out to see her and my van starts making a funny, high pitched whining noise, then my battery light comes on. I turn around and head to Auto Zone, where I find out my alternator has gone out. Great, I'm supposed to be at my mom's tonight, and at work tomorrow and now I can't do either. With a little help from my mechanic best friend the alternator gets replaced the next day. Then when I return to work, I have a really hard day and nothing is going right, causing me to have a meltdown in the middle of work. Which resulted in a stress related migraine that lasted for 2 days.

I swear, sometimes I think this much fun should be illegal.

Gale