For the first time in 34 years, I have two cars in reliable good
working order. I am having new shocks
and such installed on the new (to me) car and was planning on picking it up
next Tuesday while driving the old car around for the last week before I sell
it. Things changed.
The old car had a battery/starter problem tonight after the meeting and
would not start. Charlie and Margie
tried to jump start me and that did not work. We left the car at a church after my 9th
AA meeting this week. They gave me a
ride to my mechanic’s shop to see if the new car was outside so I could drive
it home. It was inside the shop. They gave me a ride home and I am carless for
the night.
C & M will give me a ride to the repair shop tomorrow morning. I will get my new car and then have the old
car towed to the shop to be repaired. I
might have to juggle cars for another week, but it is not a panic driven emergency
by any stretch of the imagination. I
will have the old car repaired before I sell it to somebody needy cheap
reliable transportation. I believe the
car still has at least another 60,000 miles left in it before it becomes
unreliable transportation.
In my using days, a dead car would leave me stranded and powerless to
solve the problem since I spent all my money on drugs. I will have to wait until Tuesday to pay the
mechanic in full for the work. That is
not expected to be a problem. Now all I
have to do is get one car from the shop when it opens on Saturday morning and
have the other towed for free by my auto insurance to be repaired. I have reliable friends to give me a ride.
I am grateful for a higher quality of problems today.
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