thekarens
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- Sep 29, 2013
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Feel free to ignore this post. I'm under the delusion that things will seem better if they are written down.
First, we buy a used car for our kid. I know nothing about cars, so we do all the things suggested online for buying one. Our mechanic says it needs about $800 of maintenance stuff, so we buy it. It's a 2003 with low miles.
To make a long story short after 2 mechanics the "fixes" and maintenance end up costing us $2200. Then today my son is practicing parallel parking and he tells me when he cuts the wheel all the way to the right and the car is in reverse the engine stalls. I don't believe him so I try it for myself and sure enough!
Then we take him for his driver's license road test on Friday. They tell us to show up at 10, which we do. At 1050 they tell us to get in the line of cars for the driving test. I sit in the car for AN HOUR with my kid and then they tell me to get out. Our son is then told to turn off the engine. (Mind you it's the hottest part of the day by now and it's August in Houston) and he sits there for another hour.
Then they fail him because when he was coming out of the parking lot to turn right he crossed the dotted white line instead of making a tight right turn and staying completely in the right hand lane.
I wasn't thrilled about that, but at least they could make a case for that, but the 2 hour wait in the car (3.5) total and then being told he has to make another appointment to retake it and there's not another appointment for a month really ticked me off.
Then there's the issue of our dog. Charlie is an 11 year old Boston. He started having seizures last week, so we took him to the vet and they did a bunch of tests and told us that they couldn't find anything, so they put him on an anti seizure medicine and told us to bring him back for more blood work in a couple weeks. He hasn't had another seizure, but he hasn't been acting right.
Then there's today, my partner is out of town and I'm taking care of her finches. I do the morning feeding and everything looks fine. I go to do the evening feeding and one of the parrot finches (she has 5) is dead. I try to get a hold of her, but can't, so I make the executive decision to bury it in the back yard. She finally gets back with me and tells me to unbury it, she wants to check it out, so here we are.....
End Rant!!!
First, we buy a used car for our kid. I know nothing about cars, so we do all the things suggested online for buying one. Our mechanic says it needs about $800 of maintenance stuff, so we buy it. It's a 2003 with low miles.
To make a long story short after 2 mechanics the "fixes" and maintenance end up costing us $2200. Then today my son is practicing parallel parking and he tells me when he cuts the wheel all the way to the right and the car is in reverse the engine stalls. I don't believe him so I try it for myself and sure enough!
Then we take him for his driver's license road test on Friday. They tell us to show up at 10, which we do. At 1050 they tell us to get in the line of cars for the driving test. I sit in the car for AN HOUR with my kid and then they tell me to get out. Our son is then told to turn off the engine. (Mind you it's the hottest part of the day by now and it's August in Houston) and he sits there for another hour.
Then they fail him because when he was coming out of the parking lot to turn right he crossed the dotted white line instead of making a tight right turn and staying completely in the right hand lane.
I wasn't thrilled about that, but at least they could make a case for that, but the 2 hour wait in the car (3.5) total and then being told he has to make another appointment to retake it and there's not another appointment for a month really ticked me off.
Then there's the issue of our dog. Charlie is an 11 year old Boston. He started having seizures last week, so we took him to the vet and they did a bunch of tests and told us that they couldn't find anything, so they put him on an anti seizure medicine and told us to bring him back for more blood work in a couple weeks. He hasn't had another seizure, but he hasn't been acting right.
Then there's today, my partner is out of town and I'm taking care of her finches. I do the morning feeding and everything looks fine. I go to do the evening feeding and one of the parrot finches (she has 5) is dead. I try to get a hold of her, but can't, so I make the executive decision to bury it in the back yard. She finally gets back with me and tells me to unbury it, she wants to check it out, so here we are.....
End Rant!!!
I was hoping that the meds would put a stop to the seizures and that he would be back to normal. I hope they can find out what is going on with him.
