MiniHoofBeats
Well-Known Member
So...when I got my licence at 16 I was one of those lucky children who was offered a brand new car for my first car. I got to pick it out (within reasonable pricing) and I chose a 2002 Mitsibishi Eclipse! (Bought in 2001 though so it was still a "new" car in the real 2002).
Anyhow, I have had that car for 5 long, great years...so many memories with it...running over a log with the front end and ripping it out from under the car...parking over a boulder going "oops, I can fix it" then backing up just to cave in the entire side of the car...driving through a party town filled with cops in the middle of winter, rounding a corner too soon and catching my car up on a pile of snow, back tire in the air...couldn't move anywhere...right in front of the cops! Anyhow, got the bumps and scrapes fixed so the car looked like new and other than what I did to the poor thing, she ran for me with NO problems...even got me home on fumes one night when I drove on a back road in the dark, in the woods...
Well, I figured it was time for me to get a truck, being in Wisconsin and having harsh, slippery winters, it is hard driving a little sports car through that. My dads company happened to have a nice little 4x4 Ford Ranger that I just loved driving around, he offered to trade my car for the Ranger, I took the offer in a heartbeat!
1 week after owning the Ranger the "check engine" light comes on...no big deal, insufficient EGR flow...
2nd week of owning the Ranger, I went to Culvers and ordered myself a meal, a salad for my parrots back at home, a large soda and one of their cement mixer ice cream cups! I had to wait 10 minutes for my food so I ate the ice cream as it melted (it was in the 90's)...got my food, set the ice cream in the cup holder next to me and drove home. Got home and figured I better get the ice cream in the freezer to save it, so I grabbed the food and soda in one hand, ice cream and keys in the other, opened my door and started crawling out...lid from the ice cream snapped off and the entire 3/4 full melted blob of cookie dough poured out into my lap, down the drivers seat (fabric mind you), under my butt...i'm in my nice work clothes! So I threw my hands free of all items, stuffed the cup of ice cream back into the cup holder and crawled out of the truck...scooped the melted ice cream off the seat as fast as I could, waddled into my house to change and grab a towel...came back out, cleaned the ice cream off the seat as best I could, grabbed the ice cream cup (which had some melted ice cream in it still) and chucked it out onto the gravel driveway. Get this...the cup bounced off of a freaking pebble, flipped a 360, the melted ice cream left in it flew out and splashed BACK INTO THE TRUCK!!!!! All up the door, up the window, over the seat again....uuuggghhh.....why me???
Got into an argument with the window lady at Wendy's...
Broke down and told my boyfriends roomate what a complete idiot he is for not being responsible for his relationship and told him he needs to learn how to shut up and listen when someone is calling his name...(he always...always continues talking right past me as if I don't exist when I try talking to him...)...
Tried a new diet and sent it back because it had caffiene in it...waaaay too much...
My boyfriend is finally moving back in with me, but to accomodate that he wants to invite friends over we have to re-arrange the entire house to put the birds where they wont be bothered at night, yet still near a living room so they can feel social...
Have to clear out the entire basement so the landlord can come in and look at my water/mold issue...
Took my cat into the vet because he was limping, found out he has a genetic disorder...slipping patella (kneecap) in both legs, it'll cost $1500 per leg for surgery, or $800 per leg for amputation and then i'm left with half a cat...*sigh*...
Mom took one of her bengal kittens in, turns out early in life the kittens dad somehow fell on the litter of kittens and this one boy had 3 growth plates in his vertebrae crushed...he had to be put down...obviously dad isn't allowed by the kittens...had to listen to my mom cry and it just tore me up...
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ok I think i'm done venting for now, I feel a little better =)
Anyhow, I have had that car for 5 long, great years...so many memories with it...running over a log with the front end and ripping it out from under the car...parking over a boulder going "oops, I can fix it" then backing up just to cave in the entire side of the car...driving through a party town filled with cops in the middle of winter, rounding a corner too soon and catching my car up on a pile of snow, back tire in the air...couldn't move anywhere...right in front of the cops! Anyhow, got the bumps and scrapes fixed so the car looked like new and other than what I did to the poor thing, she ran for me with NO problems...even got me home on fumes one night when I drove on a back road in the dark, in the woods...
Well, I figured it was time for me to get a truck, being in Wisconsin and having harsh, slippery winters, it is hard driving a little sports car through that. My dads company happened to have a nice little 4x4 Ford Ranger that I just loved driving around, he offered to trade my car for the Ranger, I took the offer in a heartbeat!
1 week after owning the Ranger the "check engine" light comes on...no big deal, insufficient EGR flow...
2nd week of owning the Ranger, I went to Culvers and ordered myself a meal, a salad for my parrots back at home, a large soda and one of their cement mixer ice cream cups! I had to wait 10 minutes for my food so I ate the ice cream as it melted (it was in the 90's)...got my food, set the ice cream in the cup holder next to me and drove home. Got home and figured I better get the ice cream in the freezer to save it, so I grabbed the food and soda in one hand, ice cream and keys in the other, opened my door and started crawling out...lid from the ice cream snapped off and the entire 3/4 full melted blob of cookie dough poured out into my lap, down the drivers seat (fabric mind you), under my butt...i'm in my nice work clothes! So I threw my hands free of all items, stuffed the cup of ice cream back into the cup holder and crawled out of the truck...scooped the melted ice cream off the seat as fast as I could, waddled into my house to change and grab a towel...came back out, cleaned the ice cream off the seat as best I could, grabbed the ice cream cup (which had some melted ice cream in it still) and chucked it out onto the gravel driveway. Get this...the cup bounced off of a freaking pebble, flipped a 360, the melted ice cream left in it flew out and splashed BACK INTO THE TRUCK!!!!! All up the door, up the window, over the seat again....uuuggghhh.....why me???
Got into an argument with the window lady at Wendy's...
Broke down and told my boyfriends roomate what a complete idiot he is for not being responsible for his relationship and told him he needs to learn how to shut up and listen when someone is calling his name...(he always...always continues talking right past me as if I don't exist when I try talking to him...)...
Tried a new diet and sent it back because it had caffiene in it...waaaay too much...
My boyfriend is finally moving back in with me, but to accomodate that he wants to invite friends over we have to re-arrange the entire house to put the birds where they wont be bothered at night, yet still near a living room so they can feel social...
Have to clear out the entire basement so the landlord can come in and look at my water/mold issue...
Took my cat into the vet because he was limping, found out he has a genetic disorder...slipping patella (kneecap) in both legs, it'll cost $1500 per leg for surgery, or $800 per leg for amputation and then i'm left with half a cat...*sigh*...
Mom took one of her bengal kittens in, turns out early in life the kittens dad somehow fell on the litter of kittens and this one boy had 3 growth plates in his vertebrae crushed...he had to be put down...obviously dad isn't allowed by the kittens...had to listen to my mom cry and it just tore me up...
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ok I think i'm done venting for now, I feel a little better =)