My Car...

...had died.

Trying to leave for work yesterday and I'm having trouble breaking 20 mph down the main road. The car even starts lurching forward and bucking. Not liking this, I pull into a Subway, park it, and call my dad to tell him what's going on. We decide it's a cold engine so I sit there for a few minutes to let it warm up.

Ten minutes later I put the car in reverse to try driving again, but the car decides it's going to roll into the woods in front of me instead. Thinking it's gravity I give it a little gas but it just stalls. Putting it in park and try to reverse again gets the same rolling forward result.

Dad ends up coming to rescue me and get me to work, and I have to leave the car behind (the owners were okay..the woman wasn't pleased but the man told her to clam up, what could I do). Turns out the transmission is far past gone, as my mother tried later to try limping it home, and it wouldn't cooperate with her either. We've spent so much on this car already in repairs we could have bought a new one a long time ago. So the time has come to turn her in and try to get a new one.

I'm sad, this car was ten years old and just barely made the 77k mark. It was a Hyundai Accent, it saw me through my college days and went to many cons with me. And it was the same color as Nisha's fur (well, her belly fur but still). I ha hoped to get a few thousand more miles out of it first.

I'm just glad this happened on a not-so busy road that I could easily get off of, and that there's wasn't any snow on the ground yet.