I'll Take a New Motor for $500, Alex

Memorial Day weekend is behind us. I'm glad because for most of it we were sick. Sy had a sick stomach, I had a killer sore throat, and Roy was congested. Aren't we a bunch of party animals. It made for quiet weekend without much running around but not too much got done around here either. It was so much nicer to lay on the couch and cuddle.

Anyway, I figured the week would be much like the weekend except that we would all be feeling better by this Friday and raring to go for Saturday and Sunday. We were hoping to go to the beach but then....

When I leave Sy at Nana's in the morning, I have the window down and wave out to him as I drive away. Once I'm a few houses down, I push the button and my window goes up. It's been like that since he could walk and the window has always gone up, except for today. It wasn't moving and there was no way to grab it and help it up because it was all the way down. Ugh. 

I turn around and go back to Nana' driveway and call Roy. Yeah, my window won't go up at all, should I take it across town to Bill? He asks if it can wait. No, it can't wait. I have to go to work and my window is all the way down. And even if I park it in the lot that has the attendant, I still have to deal with it tonight after I drive home with 100 degree wind hitting me in the face for 27 miles. So we decide that I should take it to Fernandez Honda. They are on the south side of SA and not too far from the Nana house.

The guy at the service kiosk said it would take longer than an hour or two but they would take me to work. Okay, I'll do that. I got to go on a field trip because there was a guy already in the shuttle and he works at the Toyota plant. The shuttle driver said he was going to go there first. Fine with me. I had already called and said I was running late. I'm good. So I got to see the plant. Not the whole thing just the campus. It's huge. The weird thing was there was a coyote walking across the field on our way out. He/She wasn't in a hurry, just taking a morning stroll. I thought coyotes slept during the day... am I wrong on that?

Anyway, the driver told me I looked like a very reliable women and that my husband should be glad to have me as a wife. Why thank you sir, you may say that to everyone but I'm going to take it as a compliment nonetheless.

So I get a phone call at lunch time. The motor is burned out. They can't fix it and the whole thing needs to be replaced. Well, I am going to buy that because the car is 8 years old. So I ask the price. He tells me and then says, we don't have to do it today. Really? Well, I'm not driving it with the window down. First, it's the whole 100 degree wind blowing on you, second it's that funky thud, thud, thud noise the car makes when the windows are down that gives me a headache, third I can't park it at the office like that because I'm in a parking lot 2 blocks away, fourth the last time I had a window down on my car in the driveway at my house the cat whizzed in it and that started a chain of horrible smell events that I do not want to live through again. So yes, this is painful, it's going to hurt, my trip to the coast is toast but fix the window please.

Tata Tony came and got me from the office and took me back down at the end of the day so I could get the car. 

The window seems to be working well. I only tried it a few times on the way home. Hopefully, I won't have anymore problems.

Roy told me to stop waving because that's what burned out the motor. I told him that wasn't it. It was him using the window at the drive-thru for his taco fix. :-)  Other than it's 8 years old, I have to put it down/up every morning to scan into the parking lot so in the past two years that motor has gotten a lot of wear and tear.

The service guys were impressed with how well I've taken care of my car because it has 197,000 miles on it and it's 8 years old. Are most cars toast by this age/mileage? I'm just getting started.