Saturday, August 20, 2011
New Car!!!
So 3 days ago I finally bought a car, after 1 year and 3 months of not driving. Background: In May of 2010 I sold my car, and my husband and I moved to Costa Rica (he's Tico). We decided my husband would drive the car from the dealership to the gas station. From the gas station I was going to drive home...but on the way I decided to go by my work place to make sure I knew the route. So not far from my work place I look over at my husband and ask him to get my badge out of my purse so we could pass through the gate. I looked back at the road right as I'm driving through an uncovered manhole. (Nice common Costa Rican prank...removing metal manhole covers.) The sound was so loud, and my husband was so not happy. I decided not to go by my workplace after all, and went on home. When we got out of the car we could hear shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhh...that would be the sound air makes as it's leaking from a tire. Well my husband silently changed the tire and put on the spare (because we had had the car a full 45 minutes), and I called the dealership and told them something was wrong with the tire. The salesman told us to bring the car back, and we did. When we got to the dealership the manager and service guy and salesman all gathered around the flat tire and met for a loooong time. After what seemed like forever, the service manager came up to my husband and me and said, "It looks like somebody slashed your tire. People do that here and then follow you and rob you when you stop. We'll give you a new tire, and it will be covered under the guarantee." Yes, I am probably going to hell because I said, "Wow! I can't believe that!", instead of, "Wow, I ran through an open manhole." So I'll be doing some extra good deeds this week! Driving here is weird because it's in kilometers and not miles...so the signs on the highway say 90 km/h, but I always feel like I'm speeding even though it's only like 55 mph. It's good that I work overnights since there is no traffic at that time! I love the new car, but it's also weird. It has "full extras" but only the front 2 windows are automatic...the back 2 are manual roll downs...but no more bus or walking in the rain or taxi!!!!!! Woohooo!!!!!!!!!