Subaru Dealership: "Okay, so your clutch and hoses need replacing. That'll be $1750. We also found that your head gasket is leaking oil and that will need replacing eventually. If you have it replaced today, you can save $900 in labor, and your total will ONLY be $3600. What's that? Oh, the estimate on replacing your two front seatbelts that your dog chewed? You're looking at about $950.
Me: "@#$%^&!"
"Oh WOOOW...so that's ONLY $4550 before taxes. That is an AMAZING deal. Wow. Thanks! Let me call up the bank and see if they'll let me sell them one of kidneys or a lung or something...those are body parts that I can live with only one of, right?"
"@#$%^&*&^%$#@!!!!!!"
"I'm going to wring Zeke's adorable little neck."
"I want some french toast."
"F Money. Just....F it!"
What was actually said:
"We'll hold off on the gasket and seatbelt repair...just the clutch today, thank you. Yes, that's right. JUST the clutch. Yep. JUST THE CLUTCH."
The good news: Cory and I are both employed and have been able to save some money pretty aggressively in prep for the arrival of Baby Calhoun. For this we are very gratfeful. We have good jobs, good benefits, and work for a good company. I won't complain about that. Unfourtunately I also had to fork out money for a large bill last week--so we are almost back to square one. However, we still have about 5 months before the little peanut makes his/her debut, so that is encouraging as we should be able to tuck a few more dollars away. We are also grateful we had the money when we needed it. Generally, that hasn't been the case for us, due to many circumstances. So it feels GREAT not calling on our family for hep this time. GREAT!!! The frustrating part is that when you're starting to make progress and then something comes up and you hve to fork it over. BUT...it's the way ye olde cooke crumbles, as they say...I guess. It'd just be really great if we could avoid any crumbling cookies for a while...like a good solid year. Give us a full 365 days--that's all I ask!
2 comments:
LAAAAME! I'm so sorry! that totally sucks, Miriam. :(
Dude; that sucks royally. I hate unexpected costs that pop up like that! :( You're right; it IS good you had some saved up, but lame that you have to use it for this!
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