2006
August 2006: I earn the Mercedes from Arbonne. Thanks Hume Nation. Because I am short-sighted I special order a car with a black interior.
October 10, 2006: I pick up my car at 10am. The black leather looks totally awesome.
October 10, 2006: 30 minutes after leaving the dealer, something flies off the truck in front of me, cracking the windshield so badly that it has to be replaced. Seriously.
October 10, 2006: 20 minutes after that I get my first speeding ticket.
December 2006: I run out of gas completely in the middle of an intersection and have to wait for assistance/new gas. Very embarrassing.
2007
January 2007: Speeding ticket #2
March 2007: Speeding ticket #3
April 2007: Find out why black interior isn't a standard option. Yowza was that a mistake.
Then, because I was on a diversionary program in 3 counties, I cooled it off for a while and things were smooth. I do realize these tickets are my fault, but I didn't drive one particle faster than I did in my 15+ years of driving cheap cars and never got ticketed, so perhaps I am not solely to blame for this pattern.
August 2007: Flat tire. Completely flat, had to be replaced
October 2007: Car broken into inside my garage. Boooooo. Good news, perpetrator caught and went to prison for almost 4 years. Hooray Woodbury Police! All is forgiven re: speeding tickets
2008
Nothing to report. Yippee!
2009
March 2009: Speeding ticket #4. Also, expired license, but very nice sheriff let that slide, so I am still grateful to be a tax paying citizen of Washington County.
June 23, 2009: Flat tire, completely flat, in the middle of nowhere in rural Dakota County on a 100 degree day. Turned out to need 4 new tires and a tow.
June 24, 2009: Something flies off a truck and cracks the windshield again, needing to be replaced again.
So, my questions are as follows:
1 - Am I a bad person and this is how I am being punished?
2 - Since I am really hoping number 1 isn't the case, is there some lesson I am supposed to be learning?
3 - It is a nice car, I really love it, and I love that Arbonne provides it as a reward for hard work, but maybe I was supposed to pick a different model? They should switch to BMW? Since that is unlikely, that leaves me with...
This car is cursed. I am not really that superstitious, so I don't think it is true, but come on. That is a lot of activity for one car. The most expensive car I ever had in my life before that was $16K, so I really expected this to be drama-free.
Also - I really really try hard to look for a lesson or silver lining when things go bad. For example, as I was sitting in the smoke filled tow truck cab in Hastings I was thinking, "at least the air conditioner didn't break down". As I was sitting in the Goodyear dealership for SIX HOURS waiting for tires to come in and get installed, I thought "at least they got replaced before I had an accident with the kids in the car". Also, I got a prospect out of that long wait so I thought maybe this was God's hilarious way of sending me an RVP.
But, seriously, another windshield? I haven't had a flat tire or cracked windshield EVER. So, two of each in 2 years? What am I supposed to be learning here?
Imagine what her mother thought about the first ticket, let alone the other 4? Really Jobin, you were brought up better than that!
Posted by: Candie Hume | July 01, 2009 at 03:57 PM