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I hate this place.
My car has been absolutely filthy. Disgusting. It's a light gray color, but it looked dark brown. Our car washes are open here in the winter and people use them all the time. They dry the cars at the end with hot air. Friends encouraged me to run it through the car wash. "We do it!"
Mmhmmm. When will I learn that what is good for other people never seems to work out for me? (commence pity party)
I was 4th in line at our gas station car wash. I thought "see, other people are going through the car wash and it is all working out fine for them." No problem.
I made sure to drive extra slow through the dryer and got out and inspected the van/threw away garbage. It was mostly dry. And moderately clean. Yay!
I went to the store and got things Zoe needed for her star of the week and then came home. A couple of hours later, I had to drive to go and interview a neighbor. My front door made a crunching sound when I opened it and then it wouldn't stay closed. I literally had to hold it closed while I turned the corners to her house. I got home and tried everything. The door will no longer latch. It's busted. At the time, I thought it was a bizzare chance thing.
I have class in the Cities in the am and I can't miss ... so I figured out that if I lock all doors with my electric lock it will stay closed. Phew, crisis averted at least temporarily, right?
Wrong.
I pulled open the sliding side door to get something and heard the same crunching noise as I held down the handle. Uh. Oh.
Yup! Busted. The door will no longer latch or stay closed. You can press the handle freely now because whatever provided the tension has broken. Thank you Minnesota. I believe that water must have gotten into my locks and frozen ... and that when I opened the handles, the crunching noise was the ice and some mechanism breaking. That's my best guess. It's too weird that it happened to both doors.
I have no vehicle. I have no idea how I will even drive the car to the car dealership. I'll have to figure out how to tie the door closed.
In the meantime, I am focused on how the h-e-double hockey sticks I'll get to the Cities tomorrow.
My only hope is Andrew's car, which we haven't driven in a couple of weeks because he had an accident and we need to have the front bumper/light fixed. Of course since we haven't driven it, it needs to be jumped. I was already planning on jumping it because we're taking it in to be fixed this week, but...now I am digging the tires out of the snow, clearing off the windows and roof and am trying to attach jumper cables and charge a battery in the cold and windy darkness of a MN winter.
How is it that all of these Minnesotans go through the car wash in the winter with no problem and I do it and my locks break on two doors?
Maybe it's just a weird coincidence, but I'm blaming the MN cold.
I don't think I'll make it to class tomorrow. That's what my gut says.
Why do we live here?
My car has been absolutely filthy. Disgusting. It's a light gray color, but it looked dark brown. Our car washes are open here in the winter and people use them all the time. They dry the cars at the end with hot air. Friends encouraged me to run it through the car wash. "We do it!"
Mmhmmm. When will I learn that what is good for other people never seems to work out for me? (commence pity party)
I was 4th in line at our gas station car wash. I thought "see, other people are going through the car wash and it is all working out fine for them." No problem.
I made sure to drive extra slow through the dryer and got out and inspected the van/threw away garbage. It was mostly dry. And moderately clean. Yay!
I went to the store and got things Zoe needed for her star of the week and then came home. A couple of hours later, I had to drive to go and interview a neighbor. My front door made a crunching sound when I opened it and then it wouldn't stay closed. I literally had to hold it closed while I turned the corners to her house. I got home and tried everything. The door will no longer latch. It's busted. At the time, I thought it was a bizzare chance thing.
I have class in the Cities in the am and I can't miss ... so I figured out that if I lock all doors with my electric lock it will stay closed. Phew, crisis averted at least temporarily, right?
Wrong.
I pulled open the sliding side door to get something and heard the same crunching noise as I held down the handle. Uh. Oh.
Yup! Busted. The door will no longer latch or stay closed. You can press the handle freely now because whatever provided the tension has broken. Thank you Minnesota. I believe that water must have gotten into my locks and frozen ... and that when I opened the handles, the crunching noise was the ice and some mechanism breaking. That's my best guess. It's too weird that it happened to both doors.
I have no vehicle. I have no idea how I will even drive the car to the car dealership. I'll have to figure out how to tie the door closed.
In the meantime, I am focused on how the h-e-double hockey sticks I'll get to the Cities tomorrow.
My only hope is Andrew's car, which we haven't driven in a couple of weeks because he had an accident and we need to have the front bumper/light fixed. Of course since we haven't driven it, it needs to be jumped. I was already planning on jumping it because we're taking it in to be fixed this week, but...now I am digging the tires out of the snow, clearing off the windows and roof and am trying to attach jumper cables and charge a battery in the cold and windy darkness of a MN winter.
How is it that all of these Minnesotans go through the car wash in the winter with no problem and I do it and my locks break on two doors?
Maybe it's just a weird coincidence, but I'm blaming the MN cold.
I don't think I'll make it to class tomorrow. That's what my gut says.
Why do we live here?
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