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Me, jobs, and cars; what a SNAFUBAR
7 months ago
SNAFUBAHR -- Situation, Normal. All fucked up beyond any hope of recovery!!!
Yep. I lost yet another job. The holidays hit and I couldn't keep up with the demand at the abattoir, so they cut me loose the weekend before Thanksgiving. I was unemployed and scrambling for 35 days before my sister saw an advert from a local farm feed mill.
I went over to the place in person and asked for a paper application as demanded by their ad. I had barely gotten halfway through the application when the office manager gave me her phone to speak with the owner. He hired me on the spot!
I started work the next day.
As for cars, my 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser has been in a rough place since I bought it from a pharmacy one year ago. Transmission issues, worn out tie rods, brakes that are BURNED, worn out front axle bearings, and bad tires, have plagued me the last year. The situation came to a head when I blew two flat front tires from the bad tie rods in less than a month. Enough was enough. I was discussing the situation with my coworkers and one offered to sell me his 2001 Limited Edition PT Cruiser. I took the offer and two months later the car is finally out of the shop and back in my hands.
Yep. I lost yet another job. The holidays hit and I couldn't keep up with the demand at the abattoir, so they cut me loose the weekend before Thanksgiving. I was unemployed and scrambling for 35 days before my sister saw an advert from a local farm feed mill.
I went over to the place in person and asked for a paper application as demanded by their ad. I had barely gotten halfway through the application when the office manager gave me her phone to speak with the owner. He hired me on the spot!
I started work the next day.
As for cars, my 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser has been in a rough place since I bought it from a pharmacy one year ago. Transmission issues, worn out tie rods, brakes that are BURNED, worn out front axle bearings, and bad tires, have plagued me the last year. The situation came to a head when I blew two flat front tires from the bad tie rods in less than a month. Enough was enough. I was discussing the situation with my coworkers and one offered to sell me his 2001 Limited Edition PT Cruiser. I took the offer and two months later the car is finally out of the shop and back in my hands.
panzier
~panzier
Aww heck, cars are always fun and can always use some attention. Growing up I had to be creative so learned the arts of fixing, sort of a gift and a curse! My first new truck, 89 F250 needs a frame replacement, that'll be a long fun project.
Tyg3rW01f
~tyg3rw01f
OP
Oh yeah! ESPECIALLY since the brown PT needs a new water pump -- which is part of the timing assembly! Yay!
panzier
~panzier
Luckily though, in the last decade, the Gates timing kits come with a water pump, belt, idiler pulleys as needed. had so many issues with changing one or the other then the other fails, got to be standard, replace both.
