Monday, June 05, 2006
i have decided to name my car christine (after stephen king). after multiple incidents with this car ever since i have had it (including sliding backward off of a winding drive and landing on a *significant* piece of pipe last year), i can't seem to avoid running into objects that should not be on the highway. in january, i almost lost my spleen and a fatal amount of blood because a tire came off of a semi/trailor?, forcing the car directly in front of me to a sudden complete stop. i spent over a week in the hospital in critical care and three months recovering...just in time for the next incident. about a month or two ago, during a hurricane where it was impossible to see, i hit something the size of a car door on the highway. (it probably was a door from the vehicle that was sitting in the median right beside it). i had to move left to avoid hydroplaning under the semi in front of me which was slowing down too quickly, (probably because it saw the object in the left lane), also in an effort to get around it and the blinding water it was recyling into my view (lack of view!) the entire underneath of my car was shredded. the storm came out of nowhere when i was an hour from home late at night, i understandably avoid driving in situations like this if at all possible! i had just taken my car in for alignment and new front tires that morning, since the old ones were bald from being out of alignment. so it went back into the shop, and they repaired that and some things they missed before...oddly enough one of them being that my left headlight was aimed way left instead of at the road. how did that happen?!? a few days ago, it sounded like something fell from underneath my car, but i didn't see anything. when i stopped, i noticed a cord dangling from underneath the front of my car. all of the lights/blinkers worked, and even after opening the hood, it didn't look like it belonged to anything. i took it in for repair today, and apparently the pressure fan was "missing" but the bolts were all in place. how did that happen?!? my car is possessed.madame le professeur at 3:35 PM
