RL crap

[floatingleaf]

My car wouldn't start this morning. No idea why - it seemed perfectly fine last night. Had to take public transportation to work. Was an hour late. Have to get up earlier tomorrow so it doesn't happen again. Same thing Friday, of course. No clue how I'm going to get to my chiropractic appointment on Saturday morning. Probably won't make it.:/ Same goes for the regular weekend grocery shopping trip. The only two stores close enough for me to walk there are Aldi (cheap, but mostly crappy stuff - hardly anything I usually buy) and Jewel (expensive - haven't shopped there since I started my 'saving on groceries' plan). And 'close enough to walk' doesn't necessarily mean 'close enough to walk carrying fifteen heavy bags of food'. I'm so looking forward to pulling a shoulder muscle - especially since I won't be able to see my chiropractor.:[

Oh, and why yes, I have just recently spent $360 to fix the car, haven't I?

Life sucks.:(

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[dissonant-dream.livejournal.com]

And I'm not good with cars so I don't know how to deal with stuff like this. Funnily enough, right after this conversation, my car died. Apparently the battery went dead or something, I don't know. But it was the day after it was serviced so I was kind of pissed. And now I might need a new battery.

Cars are way too expensive, to buy and to maintain, and I hope yours is okay and holds it together for you.

That sounds pretty good. I think because I live out in a rural area, we have more things like that still. I don't think I could cope with city life.

[floatingleaf.livejournal.com]

I just had my battery replaced a few months ago. I hope that's all your car needs, since it wasn't terribly expensive (far less so than the suspension fix I needed later).

You know, the funny thing is, here in the States it's the rural areas that require pretty much everyone to have a car in order to be able to go anywhere at all. In cities you at least have some public transportation - maybe not too frequent or convenient, but it's there. In a far-out suburb, like the one my parents live in, the closest grocery store is a few miles away, and there is no bus to take you there. I don't know what people out there do once they get too old to drive. Or if they cannot drive for whatever other reason. They have to order their groceries online, I suppose.:P