Thursday, March 13, 2008

Car Troubles!

Well it's a sad sad day. My car is having major issues again. I swear every time mom and dad go out of town I have a major car crisis. Maybe it's better that way though so mom doesn't have to worry and dad doesn't have to stress. So here is what happened. Wednesdays for me are always very long and busy days. I had staff meeting from 8:30 to 1:00. Then I had to throw some paperwork together, do some casenotes, and then run out to Salt Lake to visit one of my clients in the hosptial. I was only going to spend an hour or so at the hosptial because I had to be back to my office in Centerville to meet with another client at 5:30. Things were going oh so well until I pulled into the parking garage at the hospital. I started smelling this weird smell and I figured it was just another car. The parking garage at LDS Hospital is always packed. Anyway I finally found a parking spot after driving around forever and I smelled smoke really bad. Well come to find out the smoke is coming from MY CAR! Yeah totally smoking like crazy. I was just looking at the smoke and thought, well I gotta get to the hosptial so I'll deal with this later. I get out of the car and I see this trail of antifreeze all the way down the parking lot. I'm talking A LOT of anitfreeze. I thought I'd better get out of there before anyone saw me. I mean it was very obvious where the antifreeze was coming from...MY CAR. I ran into the hosptial to take care of business. On the way I called my second father- Mike Evans who works for dad at the shop- and he told me not to worry about it and he would take care of everything. He said he'd send a tow truck for my car and a ride for me when I was ready to go. What a relief! So I was able to meet with my client in the hosptial which went really well and then when I got done, Mike was on his way to pick me up from the hospital. I am lucky to have so many people that take such good care of me, especially when dad is out of town. Mike had also arranged another car for me to drive so that I could make it back to work by 5:30. Hopefully they can fix my car so that I can be back on the road again. Car problems are just SO frustrating!

6 comments:

Silus Grok said...

Eek!

Sounds like it all worked out, though.

:)

Nat Heaton said...

But isn't it nice to break down with Dad's shop just minutes away! I broke down on the Phoenix freeway in 110 degree weather without Dad....SCARY! I'm glad Mike was around to rescue you! Our cars are not good advertisement for Dad's shop!

Andrea said...

So... I don't think I need to remind you that this could all have been prevented had you not been driving an Alero!! I will be sure to infrom Craig of this latest happening so he can add it to his list of "Why NOT to buy an Alero...."
Glad it all turned out. By the way, I think I'm going to be in Salt Lake from Sat. till Wed.! I'd love to see you if you have some free time! Love ya!!

Youngins said...

I think youv'e been hanging around me to much latley, that I'm rubbing of our bad luck on to you! sorry girl that sucks! You are lucky that you have a dad in that buisness! Off to cali, I'll see you soon!

Unknown said...

Wow! You poor girl! It would be bad enough to go through that any day, let alone when you're pregnant!!!! I'm glad that everything worked out all right! It's so nice that you always know that you have an honest mechanic who will actually fix the problem! :)

Nicole said...

I keep looking at your blog everyday hoping you've had your baby!!! Can't wait to see him:) No fun with the car problems!