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[hathycol]

I took my car to the garage this morning. I thought the most painful aspect would be getting up earlier than I do to get to work. This was quite painful. More painful is the fact that my car is very, very broken and that apparently there is a chance I should be dead. My steering is very, very broken. I am looking around the £500 mark for repairs. Ish.

Debated crying or cancelling Christmas and doing a sackcloth and ashes routine, but you know what? Buggar it. At least I got the car in befoe the VAT increase and 2 and a half percent of £500 is a figure that is not to be sniffed at, really. I need savings for Moving Dahn Saath (or Oop North, depending) if I get a new job, but statistically that is unlikely to happen this month, so I can start again on the savings in the new year, when I am unlikely to have any massive expenditure; I have no holidays planned and Christmas will have happened. Other than paying off some bits and bobs on the credit card (internet shopping, y'see) I should, fingers crossed, be able to start putting little amounts away. I'm not even anywhere near the overdraft yet!

So I will go Christmas shopping tomorrow, as planned, and I will buy a new dress for myself, as planned. I was only going with a tiny budget for it anyway. I will still go away next weekend, as also planned. There are more important things to worry about in life, and basically I need to stop being so tight.

The real concern is whether or not the car will be ready for next weekend, when I'm driving to St Andrews. They've loaned me a car, which is nice, but it's a diesel and I don't know how they work; I have no idea if the accelerator is meant to be so tough or if it's just a thing with the car. I'm frankly terrified to drive it anywhere, so here's hoping repairs aren't too lengthy.

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[tau_sigma]

Diesels are disturbingly different - they have more torque, but in a different power band, so pulling away is AWFUL because you get to the point where in a petrol car, you would be accelerating away from the junction and at least OUT OF THE PATH OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC, and in a diesel, you suddenly have no more power. (The van was a diesel, I think that was more disturbing than the fact that it was a van.)

I hope your repairs get done quickly, I think it probably depends most on whether they can get parts quickly? Which is probably not helpful. *hugs*

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I spent SO LONG waiting at roundabouts, waiting for the biggest gap possible to that I didn't DIE HORRIBLY as I couldn't move out the way of speeding cars.

I have my car back and I love him so much. I'm speedy again!