Re: general auto banter...little LBC

From: Peter A Sanville (sanvilles(at)juno.com)
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 14:19:38 CDT


Bad Luck means it can only get better?
Pete
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:42:31 EDT JThw8(at)aol.com writes:
>Sigh...didja ever have one of those weeks? last Friday my GF took the
>new
>Grand Cherokee I bought her and backed it into a picnic table...$600
>worth of
>damage...Sunday her mom totals her car....tuesday I try to take my
>Fiat 128
>to work, it jumps time and trashes the #4 intake valve...last night Im
>
>trailering a friends Firebird to have a new motor installed...it rolls
>off
>the trailer and into the tailgate of my Suburban...new
>tailgate$540...junkyard part $680...go figure?!?...the slave cylinder
>Ive
>waited all week for for my Racing Spridget was the wrong one...after I
>spent
>30 minutes on the phone debating the correct part with the salesman (I
>was
>right, should not have listened to him) so Sundays race is gonna put
>be
>behind the wheel of a Toyota instead of an LBC as it is intended to
>be...needless to say Im just leaving the new Alpine safe in the
>garage...afraid to touch it until this wave of bad Karma is
>over....sigh....just felt like venting...anyone else ever have one of
>those
>weeks?



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