The following blog contains whining.
Sigh. $650 to fix the car. That's the best case scenario (I limp the car home, and a guy my dad knows fixes it and figures it doesn't really need all the repairs the shops are telling me it needs). I got it checked at two different shops today, and they both estimated repairs at over $800. It needs a new clutch, a new cable, and a new pedal assembly. It only cost a couple thousand in the first place, and I could get about $500 dollars if I sold it. I'm a little tempted just to forget I own a car and buy the bike I've been drooling over and a monthly bus pass and bite the hour long commute bullet. The bike will only cost $425, and a bus pass will cost roughly the same amount as gasoline for the car. But no one will have a Kona Smoke in stock for me to try out until mid-April, and if I don't get a job at the same school next year, I'll need a car for interviews. And it's snowing right now. And there's a possibility Mom and Dad might get me a bike for graduation.
Either purchase would break the bank and put me in debt. Debt that would take at least two to five months to pay off.
3 comments:
I have faith in you.
I know exactly how you feel. I have two non-working cars. To fix either one properly would be pricey. I need to fix the one that doesn't work currently and get rid of the other one, but I just don't have that kind of money.
Good Choice in bikes by the way. Also good luck.
Eve, you could always consider donating plasma to raise the extra cash...
If you veins are too small, you still have 2 kidneys right?
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