Thank goodness you got home in one piece. About 25 years ago I worked with a man that was driving home on the 405 after dark. His car broke down and before help could arrive some criminals did and beat him nearly to death. He was never the same again. The head of our resident office knew him from a program they both worked on previously. The unlucky man was the MILSTAR program manager in the last and exceptionally smart. He was obviously impaired when I met him. My friend had so much respect for the impaired man that he voluntarily told me the story even though I never remarked about the first guy’s mental difficulties.
I was driving in the mid-afternoon, with lots of other people on the road
I personally am close to many people with mental impairments. Their problems are very real and I detest people who make fun of them. When they do that, it says a LOT about the cruel person laughing at some other person’s expense
Maybe the latte costs more, but hardly worth it🤪
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I had some at one time but due to safety concerns and the fact quality parts were getting hard to find, among other things, I moved them all along. Sold one for a tad more than scrap. The other was given away. I had others as well that came and went, some just for parts.
That is nuts but certainly a concern. This happened in a pretty decent safe area and people were willing to help when it was all but locked up at one point. I do go armed as you never know what someone might do when they see an opportunity. I will be buying a newer car as well. As I get older I don’t want as many of these headaches but do like the simplicity of a 2000’s era car. It is just that everything is getting old and wearing out, then there is parts availability. Had the rest of this truck been in decent shape, I would have kept and repaired it. That is not the case.
I was about to get rid of it during the pandemic. It stayed because it was easier to fix it than find parts for a new truck I bought to replace it that was having trouble and is currently in the shop as we speak. The body and frame are in great shape and I think eventually it will serve me well. I think this one was misrepresented to me and I had a string of bad luck with it right off the bat but it had been good for a while until now. I needed a truck and it was quickest and cheapest to dump several thousand dollars into this old thing to keep it going vs. buying another unknown truck in those times. I got quite a bit more use out of it and don’t regret this. The only thing I regret is just having a new windshield put in the truck days before all this happened but that was only $220 so not much in the grand scheme of things.