Sep 30, 2009

Gives You Hell

I never thought one of my days at Disney could ever trump the horrible awfulness of my days in strollers, but I was wrong.

So wrong.

Yesterday, my dad came into town on business so Megan and I picked him up from Downtown Orlando so that we could go to T-Rex for dinner. This was all well and good, but as my dad was driving, he noticed that another light on my dashboard came on. Previously, it had just been the "ETS off" and "Check Engine" lights, but now the battery light was on. We decided to bring the car in Wednesday to get it looked at.

After dropping my dad off, the seatbelt light and ABS light come on. Megan and I are now five minutes away from home, and the airbag light and check fluid light come on. I'm in panic mode and am starting to come frightening close to Cuss-ville USA. We approach a stoplight and all of the lights go off.

All.

And then my car turns off. Completely and totally.

So Meg and I are trying to wave people around us while we figure out what to do. A cop pulls up behind us and tells me to move.

No kidding. Really? I can't just park here?

We tell him that we're calling AAA, but he tells us to just call a friend and get a jump. Okaaaaay. We call David, but he's at a Halloween party. We call Mike, David's roommate, and he books it over and gives me a jump.

As Mike's following us home, I'm on the phone with him, and I begin to panic again, because the gas pedal is pushed all the way to the floor and my car's slowing down. He tells me to keep going, but then I lose power steering and have to pull over.

Mike then decides we'll push the car home. All two miles home.

So there we are. Mike's pushing and steering, Megan and I are pushing from behind, flip flops flailing, running pell mell. Mike complains that he just showered. Megan has to pee. Things aren't looking up.

Then a humongous bus comes and tries to run us over.

Not only does it try to run us over, it calls us in to security of the apartment complex we're passing to tell on us.

Skeeze.

We pull over and Mike goes to talk to the security guards and they let us in. I finally call AAA and a tow truck comes to tow my car to the nearest repair shop. The tow truck man was in fact very jolly and put me in a good mood, which was a tremendously difficult feat. Dan. What a great guy. He even called me an hour after I got home to make sure I got home safe. Precious.

Anyway, we end up catching a ride home from Erica, a friend of ours and don't get home until about 12:30 am. We had left my dad around 9 pm? Something like that....and poor Megan had to be up for work around 5 am.

Suckiest day in Florida thus far.

To top it all off, I have a broken alternator, alternator belt, ruined spark plugs, and something to do with fluids that need to be flushed. You can add up the cost on your own.

Needless to say, no good.

6 comments:

Deidra Holder said...

Can I just say you don't remember this EXACT thing happening to me on CHRISTMAS EVE @ Disney? Right at the stoplight by ToT. And the place wasn't open 'till the 26th. At least your friends came :D All of mine were busy/not answering phones so I sat at Hess for about 2.5 hours in the dark. Fun times at Disney!

Erika said...

when i saw "erica" i was shocked and apalled that you would spell my name wrong.
hahah. i'm only a little self-involved, i guess.
LOVE you.
and it should make you happy that i am going to SEE you on MONDAY. just remember that when you are having a sucky day. :)

Anonymous said...

Eh. Coulda been worse.

Anonymous said...

Glad you are up and running again. Car problems can be a nightmare!
JM

Poppa said...

And i thought my car troubles were the worst in the world! That night you had was almost as bad as the nights i have had with rose....so as cold as andrew was in saying it coulda been worse, hes right... hope that its not TOO expensive sounds like alot for you to have to handle...

kate.yo said...

CUSS-VILLE, USA.