DeYank

We are heading out soon to Texas.  Fuel prices being what they are, we'll have to tow a trailer full of money so we can pay for the gas.  Isn't it nice that they have raised the price so we gan get screwed even more during the Memorial Day holiday? Wonderful. I am sure that those wonderful people over in the Middle East celebrate this holiday with us.

Have to drive this time because we are going down to be at our eldest granddaughter's High School graduation.  Once that is over, she is going to come back with us and see if she likes Wright State University, which is about a mile away from us.  We have a spare room that she will get, plus having three cars will let he have the use of at least one of them, but not until after she gets her final driving license.  She has a learner's permit, but that isn't enough to let her go solo even though she is eighteen.  Car use is also contingent on finding some sort of job to sustain tankfulls of gas.  No job, no gas.  Heck, I hardly drive anywhere now myself.

Took the car down to have a transmission problem checked out.  After THREE WEEKS he finally tells me that it will cost me either $560 to just put it back together with all the worn parts, or $959 to put it back together with good parts.  Those guys really have got it down pat haven't they?  "Ha!  I got it all apart now and you gotta pay me to put it back together!"

This is the same chain transmission place (whose first name starts with "AAMCO") that serviced the very same car just four years ago and charged me $1200 and pronounced it "fixed for life".  Damn short life, I say.  Same one that worked on my truck now that I think of it.  Problem is - it's the only place in town unless you count some of the garages down by the railroad yards where they claim they can fix anything for $49.

 So, off we go to Texas along with the 249 Billion other people who travel on Memorial Day.  It'll be fun.  Right.