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Ouch!!
Can you believe it? Yes, I'm actually posting two days in a row--yippee.
So, hubster informs me earlier this week that the car needs new tires on the front end. We cannot put if off any longer; the steel belts are starting to show in a couple of places. Wonderful. Then he tells me the tires are probably going to run around $150 for the pair. He makes the appointment for yesterday and we drop the car off the night before.
Now normally, this would not be a big deal. Unfortunately, his desktop died a couple of weeks ago and I'd been cutting all possible corners to be able to get him a new one asap. He's been using my laptop in the meantime and sharing with the entire family is getting old very quickly. I was planning to break the news last night that this weekend we'd finally be able to place his order. So much for that idea. Okay, I think, so maybe if I'm really crafty and move a couple of payments around a bit, we can do the computer next week.
Hah. Life really seems to have a way of dumping huge amounts of rain on my parade lately. He comes home with the car after work last night and announces that it cost just a little more than he'd hoped. How much more, I ask. Well, see they had to do an alignment, too, he says. Okay, he'd mentioned this was a possibility, so I'm not all that surprised. How much, I ask again. Uh, well, see they also found out that something called a sway bar had broken and needed to be replaced. Ah, so that's what the occasional clunking noise when you turn was all about, I say. Yep, he agrees but makes no attempt to actually answer my question regarding cost. So, HOW MUCH, I ask for the third time. He finally just hands me the bill. Sigh. Over three hundred bucks.
Guess who gets to keep sharing her laptop for at least another month???
Joy.
So, hubster informs me earlier this week that the car needs new tires on the front end. We cannot put if off any longer; the steel belts are starting to show in a couple of places. Wonderful. Then he tells me the tires are probably going to run around $150 for the pair. He makes the appointment for yesterday and we drop the car off the night before.
Now normally, this would not be a big deal. Unfortunately, his desktop died a couple of weeks ago and I'd been cutting all possible corners to be able to get him a new one asap. He's been using my laptop in the meantime and sharing with the entire family is getting old very quickly. I was planning to break the news last night that this weekend we'd finally be able to place his order. So much for that idea. Okay, I think, so maybe if I'm really crafty and move a couple of payments around a bit, we can do the computer next week.
Hah. Life really seems to have a way of dumping huge amounts of rain on my parade lately. He comes home with the car after work last night and announces that it cost just a little more than he'd hoped. How much more, I ask. Well, see they had to do an alignment, too, he says. Okay, he'd mentioned this was a possibility, so I'm not all that surprised. How much, I ask again. Uh, well, see they also found out that something called a sway bar had broken and needed to be replaced. Ah, so that's what the occasional clunking noise when you turn was all about, I say. Yep, he agrees but makes no attempt to actually answer my question regarding cost. So, HOW MUCH, I ask for the third time. He finally just hands me the bill. Sigh. Over three hundred bucks.
Guess who gets to keep sharing her laptop for at least another month???
Joy.
