Up your nose with a rubber hose. I confessed to my egregious error in judgment (where I admitted we were barely squeaking by but by "squeaking by" the Blog Fates took to mean trumphilton- rich). I posted publicly my shame. I apologized and I presented a sacrifice. What more do you want?
It was not funny to mess with our old car, forcing several hundred dollars of unavoidable repairs. However at least you left our "good" 5 year old car alone. But then you thought you would be funny and mess with it as well. WHY? Why would you break the window switch with the window down? Could you not at least break it with the window up? We were able to jack around and get the window back up but can no longer use a drive thru for our meals. Who is supposed to feed these children now I ask you? Hmmmmm?
What I really do not understand however, is what I have done that is so bad I deserved what you sent next. Blog Fates, I am certain you did not strike my youngest child down with a mystery fever-vomit illness, that would simply not be playing fair. The thing that bothers me is how you used her illness to ruin my couch. Just so we are all on the same page, Teena was sick and fell asleep on the couch. I went to get some towels to put under her "just in case" and when I did I saw and smelled the rancid swamp that now covers my couch. Seeing as it has already been turned over
I can't afford TWO sets of car repairs AND a new-used- picked couch! Yer killing me here Blog Fates, killing me! Oh yeah, and because Teena bawled her fool head off that the funk couch was potentially going out the door for Big Garbage day, The Husband refused to drag it out there! Yes that's right, the Couch of Rancid Funk lives on because The Husband could not stand the sight of his daughter crying.
Now please Blog Fates, your revenge is complete!
ps. I will be sacrificing Too True Tues(day) this week for the Blog Fates and will have another feature instead.
"Who is supposed to feed these children now I ask you? Hmmmmm?"
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA! :-D
Hope it all gets better fast and free!!! Goodwill has some nice couches for $20. Craigslist also has some winners. You know, sometimes. But they can be good! Can.
I hope this has taught you to take your daughters out for ice cream before the next garbage day. ;-)
My solution: sneak the couch out the back door while she's sleeping AND THEN, before trash pick up, take her out to ice cream (but not through the drive up) so she doesn't cry (again).
ReplyDeleteSpeaking from experience the drive through situation is now more challenging but all things worth doing are, are they not? Okay so what you do is pull up and order with enough room to crack open the driver side car door and order. Put on your twitchy eye'd crazy face by the time you get to the window to pay and glare at the attendant so they know they don't want to act as if they notice the situation at hand. When pulling forward to the pickup window make sure you give'r a lil extra room because you don't want to fumble and drop the children's food during the reach around the open car door.
ReplyDeleteSay it with me, "Mom is just Wow upside down, you can do this!"
Sorry about your couch, I got nothing there.
Oh, I KNOW!!!! The drive-through with a broken window is just a little embarrassing...you have to pull ahead enough to open the door, AND be sure not to go so close to the building that the door won't open enough to accomodate the taco salad! We had that going on for a year WITH no heat. I wasn't sure which feature was worse, frankly.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing about the window was the school parking lot, when the rich folk that choose "private education" (at the Catholic parish where I make a humble wage with tuition assistance thrown in) would drive up beside me to "have a word" as I am sitting in the parking lot, and I would be forced to reveal "my little problem" to people who would NOT FOR A DAY live like that, by either gesturing and thereby looking unfriendly, or getting out of the car to lean in and talk to them through the smoothly rolled-down window of their Lexus SUV. And when it was raining cats and dogs I couldn't even pull off looking like I did it out of excess enthuiasm.
It sounds like the Blog Fates got you good! Hopefully they will move on. Hope Teena is feeling better :)
ReplyDeleteOh that's hilarious! We have the same problem with the youngest crying (we're pretty sensitized to the two middles, however).
ReplyDeleteOh MAN!! The driver window that wont go down is the WORST!!! And big bucks to fix if I recall correctly. SUCK! Sorry Ess. :-(
ReplyDeleteOh MAN!! The driver window that wont go down is the WORST!!! And big bucks to fix if I recall correctly. SUCK! Sorry Ess. :-(
ReplyDeleteHey, I have to problem with our window as well...and the fun thing about going to Sonic, you can have a child climb up to the front seat, then when the attendant comes, ask them to go to the other side. Your child will think it is so cool, and will be smiling, that you look like you are the cool mom, letting your kids do something fun. :) The carhoppers will usually get a big kick out of handing the stuff to your child...crisis solved.
ReplyDeleteOh bless you with the couch delima....Vinegar is really good about neutralizing the puke smell...you just have to suffer though the vinegar smell for a few days...which is almost as bad.
that is so sad, it makes we really happy that our windows are not electric because I need my drive-through starbucks!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the couch! ick.
I had a window problem with my car a few years ago. The window got stuck halfway down and wouldn't move. The repair guy said that you need to put the windows up and down a few times every week or so (even the windows in the back, which I usually just left closed). He said there's some kind of gizmo that gets brittle and breaks if the windows aren't raised and lowered frequently.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if that was your problem, but since then I have followed his advice and I've had no more window problems.
omg - you kill me. KILL me! this was awesome.
ReplyDeletesorry your life isn't.
gosh dern them blog fates!
Good luck on the couch thing...although I think its sweet that your husband didnt want to upset your daughter.
ReplyDeleteCheckers/Rallys have double drive thru...one of which on the passenger side! :) I love their fries.
ReplyDeleteMMM, interesting solutions to the drive thru problem- I knew I could count on you all!!! LOL!!!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about vinegar removing puke, and I like the smell (yes, weird, sue me). It's all the pee soaked in there too that has me willing to set the whole thing on fire. We've had it about 15 years, long enough!!! Actually today I moved the dang thing to the other side of the room and moved the nicer couch to where I usually sit instead. So, when life gives you lemons...pee and puke, make another mess entirely!
This is just going to suck at Starbucks. I may have to park *sigh* and walk *gasp* inside *ugh*.
My couch is secondhand, has gold balls for feet, and the parts that HAVENT been destroyed by CAT are brown and gold and tan plaid. I NEED a new couch too, but they are horribly expensive!
ReplyDeleteMatry, I think brown and gold sound like perfect colors! LOL!
ReplyDeleteunzip the couch cushion covers and wash on cold in washer. You have nothing to lose. I've done it.
ReplyDeleteWW I did that with my other couch! The "good" couch, and it worked! It was so dirty I decided the same, nothing to lose. The fabric is cotton so I stripped the covers and washed and shazaam! Much, much better!
ReplyDeleteThe couch in question here though is a futon. The liquids that are soaked into the cushioning can't be removed (that I know of).
My husband's window is broken too. He refuses to go to the drive thru with it like that EVER. He has to park and go inside for everything, including the bank. We looked into fixing it ourselves. Maybe you can try that on yours. There are only a couple parts, and you can research your specific model to see which one it is. The reason we couldn't do ours was because it's a truck and in this one, it's actually kind of been welded in a way you can't remove the parts very easily. The mechanic said it would be cheaper to just buy another door from a salvage yard, so you might consider that one too. And if you are lucky and call around, maybe you can find one with a non automatic window, so you don't have to worry about how to hook the power up to it. Oh, and preferably the same or very similar color. A red door on a blue car is more embarrassing than going through the drive thru with a broken window. LOL
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