Where's Mr.Goodwrench When You Need Him?

My car died on me yesterday while we were on route to the hospital. Don't worry it was a weekly routine appointment, not an actual emergency. Well, except for the car...that was an EMERGENCY situation.

As we exited the freeway the nurse noticed that she could see smoke from the engine. Niice! So as I glance at my dashboard sure enough "H", we are overheating. Had this been a medical emergency I would have been on my game. Tracheostomy pops out, I'm your gal. Smokey car, huh?

And of course I don't have AAA anymore, it's one of the "extra" things I had to cut from my single mom budget over a year ago. A year with no car emergencies is pretty darn good. Right?

So we're overheating and I have the nurse call my brother for some pointers. We are only a few miles from the hospital and our appointment. Just how much of an emergency is this? Apparently it's a pull over immediately situation, now I know. {I am sure there is a mobile phone app for this situation, but in the meantime my brother instructed me to stop, drop & roll.}

We waited in a gas station area for him to come and assess the situation. He determined I had lost coolant and asked me for a funnel. Yeah, the one thing I don't carry with me. So I gave him the only implement that I had...





Now aren't you jealous you don't carry medical supplies with you too?

Long story short, the radiator was shot so the car was eventually towed home. Today a mobile auto repair dude came and replaced both the radiator and the thermostat.

The moral of the story: If your goes kerplunkity-plunk in a less than desirable area of Downtown LA, make sure it is on you brother's day off, your mom is home to use her AAA for towing, you carry an extra 60cc syringe, and pull over next to a library with metal bars on the windows so the kidlet can run around inside. It keeps him away from the homeless guy and the panhandlers.


Thanks for peeking,