3000 and maybe a bullet!

Yup, 3000 dollars worth of damage done to my beloved car! Who would have guessed that a gas tank, gas tank skid plate and fuel pump could cost that much. While the car guy was telling me about the damage he filled me in on some important info. He told me that there was a small hole in the skid plate and gas tank something so small that it appeared to be caused by a bullet. What now you're telling me my car was shot at, great! Anyway we wont be able to tell what caused the hole until the parts get pulled out but for now we wait. We wait on the insurance to decide if they want pictures, we wait for car to be torn apart, we wait for the parts and then we wait for them to put my beloved car back together again. Oh one more wait, we wait to make a police report, that is if it was a bullet that caused the damage. Lovely!!!

Rental car from hell and other crazy firsts

So yesterday my beloved car wanted to explode...yes it did but sure glad it didn't! I had the pleasure of renting my first rental car actually more like two different rental cars, but who is counting. Yes, I have never had to rent a car because I had problems with mine. There is always a first with me. I have also never had the pleasure of reporting a claim to my insurance company. I have nothing bad to say about my insurance company they made things relatively painless and I had a good laugh. I will never complain the next time I have to pay a AAA bill, count my words never! Not a first however was having to tell the lady on the other end of the phone that I am indeed old enough to rent a car. She was under the impression that I was in my late teens or early twenties, wow do I sound that young. It's not like she didn't have all my important information right in front of her in black and white. Well they turned my car trouble into no-fault trouble and sent me to rent a car from their company. What, I have to turn in a perfectly good be it ugliest blue Camry for whatever this other company could/would give me. Well I ended up with yet another problem car, it smells bad on the inside and out plus the cigarette light does not work. How do people charge phones in cars that don't have working cigarette lighters? This company WILL be taking this car back and giving me something else, I refuse to drive a stinky car that has broken features. Plus who wants to drive a car when you have been driving an SUV for years?! Come on, I have to sit that low in a car, have lights always in my eyes and feel like at any point someone is going to plow right into the thing. I did remember what it is like to drive a car that hugs the road, that goes faster (only a little) and can be whipped in and out of tight spaces. Oh well the negatives outweigh the positive and that's the reason I will never have a small car again...dangerous.

Who knew gas tanks were plastic?

So on my way home today from the YRC I had a major car malfunction...the gas tank exploded. It was not a blow up the car kind of explosion just a shake the car have to pull over kind. So here I was just coming in Auburn and I hear this horrible noise and the car starts to shake and then slow down. Yes, lucky me! Anyway I pull over by the grace of god no one was behind or beside me at that point and I was safely able to get over to the shoulder of the freeway. Of course this had to happen on one of the busiest stretches of highway, again see how lucky I am! So I pull over and get out of the car, not something I would recommend but I needed to see what happened. I figure it was gas leaking out of my car by the smell and decide it would be best to turn the car off, move away from it and call AAA. As I was trying to explain stuff to AAA my mother came driving up the same stretch of highway, she never leaves work early but again by the grace of god she did and came to my rescue. While on the phone with AAA they decided that I have a major issue and called highway patrol (remember I'm on a really bad area of the freeway) and the local fire department plus made me a priority pick up. If I knew having my gas tank want to explode would get this much attention, I would have had it happen along time ago. So the hot fire fighters show up and clear my car for tow. Yes I gawked they were in uniform and for the most part pretty hot. The tow truck shows up and I had 10 minutes to get my car to the shop before they close along with every rental car company in Auburn. Needless to say the car was dropped off at the shop and I got a rental car.....day was just not going to get any better. While talking to the dealer about my strange gas tank, he stated that "gas tanks are plastic now didn't you know!" Yeah guy I knew that couldn't you tell my dumb expression on my face!!!!!