Best laid plans and all that jazz
Well, after my son’s soccer practice this afternoon, we all got in the car to go home… and the key won’t turn. We jiggle the wheel and jiggle and jiggle and try my spouse’s key and… nothing.
:sigh:
My spouse got a ride back to our house with another soccer parent and came back with his car, we transferred the carseats and took the kids home. I called my dad to ask for advice during all this because he knows a wee bit about cars, and he said to call a locksmith first before getting the car towed. So I did. The locksmith gives me advice involving WD-40 and says if I can’t get it to turn, call back and they would come out first thing in the morning. Apparently locksmiths handle this type of stuff. I had my doubts. Never doubt your dad ;).
I log into my bank account online and the check I deposited today — still marked as pending. Not having any idea how much this all might cost in the end… I transfer $350 from our savings account.
Best laid plans and all that. But, at least, this does qualify as an emergency.
We all pile back into the spouse’s car and go back to my car, and much WD-40 and jiggling and turning and such… no dice. Car still sitting in parking lot, with a nice cheery note on it now that it won’t start and we are moving it in the morning, promise.
So, tomorrow morning I’ll be getting up bright and early and meeting a locksmith. I can only hope they can fix it and it doesn’t cost too much.
I had every intention this morning of not touching the savings account. Then life happened, but at least I had a savings account to touch. And I haven’t spent it yet… well, I did buy WD-40 and we got french fries at Sonic to mellow out the boys who hadn’t had dinner yet during all of this. And a chocolate shake. I needed the happy pills in chocolate ;). That’ll all get classified as miscellaneous in the budget I think. Hopefully I’ll have money to transfer back to savings after this mess is sorted out.
Did I :sigh: yet?
~J
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July 19th, 2007 at 8:01 am
This has happened before in my vehicles and generally it is because the gear is not in the right place. Try moving it - if you can. Making sure it is completely engaged in Park or Nuetral.
July 19th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Yeah, we did that. At least, it looks like it is in park and we pushed and pushed on the gear shift to try and make sure it was. I have had that happen before too. This time, no dice.
Thanks!