My morning started off with an infuriating carry on with the parking authority at Nick's old university that sent ME a bill for $625 for unpaid parking fines, fines he could not possible have incurred, fines that were accumulated after he graduated, in a car that I used to own but no longer do....I paid the damn thing because my name was on it and anyone associated with my address would receive sanctions and all sorts of crap heaped upon them. I HATED that school when I attended, Nick hated it, and now I hate it all over again. Geez.
Anyway, it's the run of the mill Friday for me. Yech.
I sold that car back in October 08 to Nick for a dollar when he left for BC. I paid the fines because Nick is enrolling in graduate studies at UBC and the old school won't release his transcripts with these outstanding fines. I'll fight it later. They threatened me with court action and I don't have the energy to argue today.
Then when I went out to get into my car to fetch mother, the ^%$@#@ thing wouldn't start, so now I'm $28 poorer for the taxi fares back and forth. I had given my parents $200 worth of taxi vouchers at Christmas, so I asked them to give me at least one of them to get home. They gave me one for $5 but I didn't notice that until I gave it to the driver.
I understand the car troubles! I'm working on saving $1,000 or so bucks so I can get a different car. Everything keeps going wrong with this one. It's one issue right after the other, and I'm running out of money trying to fix everything. Right now I have my passenger rear window duct-taped up becuase some dealio thingy inside went kapooey. I'm still upside down on the darned thing, but I have decided I would rather be upside down on a newer, more reliable vehicle, than to have to worry about when my car is going to completely stop working and leave me stranded.
It's SO frustrating. They cost a fortune, they always deteriorate, but we need the bloody things! Talk about a money pit. I swear to God that Jim and I essentially bought one car TWICE, with all the repairs we had to do on it.
Jojo -- would your car qualify for the "clunker" trade-in program that's going on right now?
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I believe it would. Trouble is, on its own it's worth just a tad more than the $4500 of the program. And, I still own a bit more on it. So, my brother believes that if I save up at least $1,000 cash to take to a dealership with me, with my credit history, I will have a better chance of getting a different car. But yes, my car is a gas guzzler Jeep Cherokee (2003). I had no idea those were such lemons, until after I bought the damn thing and started hearing of all the trouble friends have had with ones they have owned.
I would not have paid those fines I did not owe. Once someone stole the licence plates off my husbands red pick-up truck he didn't drive very often while parked on private property owned by us. The thief put the plates on his gray pick-up truck and had an accident. My hushand had a horrible time straightening out that mess!
