I forgot to mention my car. It's breaking down again.
The big things that's happened is the ever-metastasizing pool of fluid in the driveway where I park my car. I've had leaks for a long time, they were just inconspicuous because I always parked it in the garage. Now that is being inhabited by Mother's new Benz and a Porsche Father is still trying to fix.
I have noticed that the dark spots on the driveway have gotten larger over the past weeks. But one day earlier this week the fucking thing grew like a weed. Father woke me up and took my car out for something. When I checked the driveway to see if he was gone, what I saw instead was this huge pool of ... car effluvia. Worse yet, I thought I could catch from the sunlight reflection of what appeared to be a mound of fluid, as if the oil or transmission fluid or antifreeze didn't just evaporate but there was so much spilled that there is some that still need to evaporate.
I didn't think it was a big deal until I realized that I was ruining the driveway. It is my parents', and it certainly isn't mine to make ugly. It is an eyesore, and I want to be responsible in stopping this. But I can't tell them I don't have the money to fix the car, and there's certainly no way I can literally clean up the dark spots on the driveway.
Moreover, I'm pouring fluids into my car just as fast as it's going out of my car. A while ago my car began making noises when steering. I was afraid it was mechanical, but when I checked under the hood I saw the power steering tank empty. It was the first time I ever had to refill the power steering container. But I've done it a lot lately, including Tuesday and today. Moreover, the coolant tank (which I have refilled from time to time over the years) was dead-empty for the second time in the past three days. I thought that the reason may have been my air conditioner; lately it's been making a very guttural noise after operating for a while, and even after it stops I hear what I can only describe as a 3-D sound accompanying the engine. But I made a point of keeping the A/C off (although I turned the fan on) yesterday and I still had to fill it up.
My plan, because I'm broke, is to baby the thing until my parents really bitch about it. They think I make enough money to fix this, so I can't tell them what I'm really planning on doing. Unless it's just a bad hose or clamp, I don't have the money I'll probably need to pay to get this repaired. And think about this: There's a good chance the two problems I just described, the leaks and the filling of the fluids, are two separate issues. My new mechanic has told me that there are oil leaks, and yet I have to fill up the tranny and steering fluids. What if I need to deal with both?
Today when I was doing my checks Father came out. He was worried about the car and mentioned, "The car is very old now." And for the first time I totally agree with him. There is another car, the M-B SUV, that was supposed to be my sister's, in storage. Should I even bother to fix this? And would I even have the money to fix it if I wanted to?
Fuck my life.
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