So, Sama took our car to get checked out to make sure all was well for driving to Oregon on Saturday. Well, apparently the back left tire was in bad shape because the brake was slowly getting welded onto the tire. What?! Yeah so all those times we put the emergency break on when we park--totally unnecessary apparently. So that caused problems with the car overheating a lot because it was working extra hard to pull that tire around. Anyway, we knew our car was old and not the best, but we were still hoping to take it. They gave us an estimate and got to work fixing the problems. I guess it was still okay to drive because Sama brought it back and had plans to go back today to let them finish the repairs. Well....
Yesterday Sama took the car out because he had left his backpack with his computer and brand new camera across town. He didn't make it because the car started banging. He turned around and headed home going as slowly as possible and then....the tire fell off. Yep. It just fell off and rolled away. Crazy.
So where are the blessings in this you may ask? Well I promise they are there. Thankfully no one was hurt yesterday when all this happened. The tire rolled into a really old fence but no other cars or anything. There was no accident. Also, we were very lucky that Natalie wasn't in the car. Again, nothing bad happened, but it would have been a lot more worrisome if she had been there. And finally, this happened BEFORE we started driving a few hundred miles to Oregon. So, blessings! We are so grateful.
Yes, it is too bad about the car, but we were planning on purchasing a new one once in Oregon anyway. So we are going to sell this for whatever price we can get and put it towards the new car.
And now back to packing!
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