Car

I’ve had a rental car since two days after the accident. The insurance company gave me a few options: sedans, SUVs, or one little red Fiat 500. I have looked at Fiats earlier in the year and thought they were cute, so I used this opportunity to rent one as a prolonged test drive. It definitely doesn’t drive the way I expected. The salesman at the Fiat dealership had bragged about how peppy...

Where the intrepid explorer manages to get rides to and from work with friends and eventually discovers what happened to her car. The car was at the shop for three days, mostly because they didn’t have time in the schedule to work on the car. I finally got the car back today. The alternator and a battery cable had to be replaced. The car did pass inspection, though. It was way more than...

Well not so much. More like a scary outting in which my car dies on the Interstate and then miraculously works long enough to get off of an exit (road where I live) and park the car in a pharmacy parking lot. The car has been running a little higher RPM than normal, but the higher RPM comes down once the car warms up. That’s been the only thing that seemed strange today....