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You know you have those friends in life that just have that "personality"... The one who is always making dumb jokes or doing stupid stunts? Then later when you're hanging out with other people and you start to say, "Oh, did you hear what Bobby Joe did yesterday?" and your friends all roll their eyes and say "Oh no! What'd he do now?"
Well, I've had several "what'd He do now" experiences in the last few weeks!
My brand new (to me) car had been giving me some issues with the A/C, and we all know that a Texas Summer, means that something like the A/C needs to get fixed A.S.A.P!! So I took it to our family garage down the street, in my mind I'm thinking, 'eh, at the most it will only be a few hundred dollars, 4 -- 5 hundred tops. I can do that... not much else but I can get it taken care of'. Well, boy was I wrong...
I took the car in thinking I would have the freon charged and that it would be fixed, no problemo! Well, they looked it over and told me that they believed it was an electrical problem traced back to the computer, but our garage did not do work on Subarus... crap... so we take it to the local Subaru dealership, they look "Edward" over... (haha, I'll tell that story in a minute...) and give me a call, they tell me that they found there was no coolant in my radiator, so the cars A/C would turn off to keep the radiator and the entire car from overheating...
I'm thinking "okay, Awesome! just put some coolant in it and we'll call it fixed!"
They continue to tell me that it is "in my best interest" to let them tear apart my *brand new* engine to make sure there was no damage to the radiator, gaskets, and a couple other parts... I ask how much that will cost and they tell me, $800-900 just for the tear down, that didn't include if they happened to find something wrong... So I don't authorize the work, and I call a mechanic close to our family and ask his advice for my situation... He gives it to me and tells me they're trustworthy, and I should probably listen to what they're saying... I ask what a radiator will cost since they tell me I may need a new one of those too...
He tells me... and I start to bawl. All together would have cost me $1,500 to get it fixed up. Pardon my 'language' but... eff... I don't have that kind of money... who does?!
I ask my parents what they thought I should do.
I end up picking up my car from the dealership and they tell me they went ahead and put some coolant in the radiator, but they don't know if that will help my problem... I pay my $100 for the diagnostics they ran get in my car and leave...
I step into my car not expecting my A/C to work longer than 5 minutes... that's all it ever did for me before... I hit minute 6 of the 30 I have to get home and I'm giddy... minute seven.... minute eight... minute nine... minute ten... OH MY GOSH! MY A/C IS WORKING!!! All the way home, THIRTY TWO MINUTES! wow...
The whole way home I'm thinking 'wow! My God is so Good! He has taken care of me! He has provided for me! Look what He did this time!'
*** "Edward" --- Jenna called my car Edward after I got home from the A/C making me so cold I had to turn in pretty much off... Edward like the vampire... Edward Cullen from Twilight... because his skin is like Ice... yeah...***
