when you make other plans…

okay…now for the story…
We left out of here Wed. night after I got off work and got everything loaded…no major issues, she’d just gotten the car serviced, and all seemed to be going well.
I talked to my boys, they called because they wanted to know what time we were going to be there, etc…the way things were looking I figured about 10-11 am.
We stopped and got gas, drinks, all still was going fine
I no sooner got off the phone than M told me that something was wrong with the car, it kept saying she needed to shift (standard trans.) but she was already in 5th gear…
:uhoh3
granted I don’t know jack about cars, but even I know this cannot be good…
that was an understatement to say the least…
tachometers goes nuts, clutch is GONE…nadda, zip, zilch…going uphill on I-10 and it just finished raining…
So, we pull off to the side of the road, M gets out and pushes it off the road, and thankfully as we’re nearing an exit, someone stops to help push, while I steer the car and his wife drives behind us with her flashers on so no one runs us over…
fortunately, the little town does have a gas station we pull it in as we get off the exit, and a Motel next door, I call the Ex to tell him that we’re not going to make it after all, my friend Jamie who we were planning on seeing this weekend to tell her the same…then a thought occurred to me, my dear friend WhiteTiger moved to PC a few months ago, and didn’t I see the signs for that not to far back up the road? Maybe they know of someplace we can get the car fixed at…so hoping she may still be at work, I give her a call too and leave a message…
She calls back and asked :wtf happened…so I give her a brief rundown of events and we get off the phone (since it is after 1am at this time) she calls back a bit later and tells me that they want to come get us and use her g/f’s AAA to get us towed to PC, since there are more places there we could probably get it fixed at…:cry
I truly mean it when I say I have the best friends a girl could ever ask for…I pretty much lost it then, and again that night after waiting almost 5 hours for the tow truck, them bringing us back to their place, feeding us some awesome food…I felt so bad that we had messed up their holiday together…words could never express how much it meant to me though :hug :notworthy
The next day we call the place we had it towed to…sure they can fix it, for about $1,000.00 :scared
the cheapest place we found still wanted around $800.00…ummm…I’m sorry, I’m a poor lesbian, and cannot afford that much!! So M called her step-dad and asked if he could come get us and tow us home…which he did (TTG&G), we managed to find the last car transport in PC and rented it IMMEDIATELY!! hung out with Tig and A for one more day, and then A drove us up to meet him while Tig was at work Saturday (thank you, thank you, thank you again!!)
We got back in town last night, (where her step-dad knows a mechanic who will fix it for less than $500.00), and now are trying to recuperate from our first ‘road trip’ together and prepare for work tomorrow…
I just want to publicly thank everyone who helped us out this weekend…I don’t know of any better friends than the ones I have and I love you all dearly…I hope to see you again soon, but as we said, under MUCH better circumstances!!
:kisses