If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all! SHIT!

[maveric]

Last week my alternator went, no big deal, it was old and things go. I replace that and the next day I blow 2 radiator hoses, truck breaks down on the damn freeway and I have to risk my life, the next day, fixing that.

OK, all is good and the next day someone siphons all my fucking gas! I drive a 1980 Bronco and I just spent $60.00 filling it up, all gone! Oh well.....

Next day I discover that my battery is dead, wont even take a jump so I had to spend $55.00 on a new one.

Five days and all is well until today when I was driving on a surface street and some metal bracket comes flying off the car in front of me. The object goes under my Bronco and my back drivers side runs it over, ripping the shit out of that tire! I pull over, on a fucking hill, where I attempt to change the flat.

The jack is rusted but after bouncing it on the ground I free it up. It just so happens the flat tire is off the road, lower than the rest of the truck, and the Ford jack only goes up enough to change a flat on a flat surface so I have to ask a nearby resident if he has something to shim the jack up with to compensate for the drop. He kindly gives me a piece of a 2x4 which i put under the jack, by now my bad back is FUCKING SCREAMING IN PAIN!

I raise the truck and the wood breaks up sending the Bronco crashing to the ground. At this point it starts to rain.

Then a Dude in a truck stops and offers me a small piece of a steel bar for a shim, which works. I offer him $20.00 and he refuses it. Cool guy!

I'm home now, all greasy and in pain. I just took 2 Vicodins and I'm trying to decide if I should drink beer or whiskey.

Sorry but I had to vent this one.

[shesemsmom]

1. Sorry about EVERYTHING

but don'e drink with the Vicodons. We'd rather talk to you then talk about you!!!! Be save senging good vibes that tomorrow will be better!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Welcome to Car Hell.

Motor vehicles are fickle and treacherous. Sometimes, especially when you are really vulnerable (and/or broke), they will intentionally break down, just so they can watch you suffer. And then they snicker evilly behind their fenders...

[tjdee]

3. Aww man, sounds horrible, and just like my luck.

That's a lot of car trouble in so little a time. Sorry to hear it, I'd have the whiskey.

At least this day is finally coming to an end! Hope tomorrow is better.

How many miles you got on your Bronco? Just curious. I'm at over 100K now, not happy about it.

[maveric]

4. 277,000. Its the 3rd engine.

I put the last one in 3 years ago. 351

[tjdee]

7. Whoa.

But it sounds like you take great care of it--even if it kicked your ass tonight.

Get some rest. :)

[NNadir]

5. This reminds me of the time I sold my van to protest the internal

combustion engine. I decided to bicycle everywhere. It was the mid nineteen seventies and there was a terrific drought in LA. Two weeks after I sold my van, it started to rain. Then it rained. After that, it rained. For a while after that, it rained. It rained actually until someone stole my bicycle. Then for a while it rained except when it got really cold, especially at Bus stops where all the bus drivers were named Godot.

Eventually I scraped together to get another bicycle. Then it rained, after which it rained.

I will say this. Bicycling was good for my health. Other than the wet sand kicking up into my butt, oh, and getting hospitalized a few times when people ran me over, it was totally great. It was, apparently, great for the LA flowers too.

[sendero]

6. Believe me...

... I know how you feel. Sometimes you just can't win for losing.

I try to keep perspective about it - but it's funny - it's the little things that go wrong that really piss a person off.

I try not to drink and take vics at the same time. It's really hell on your liver :)