…self-fulfilling prophecy

i took a bit of flack about six months ago when i put a junky-car club sticker on the back of my ‘99 mitsibushi galant. at the time, the only thing wrong with the car with about 85,000 miles on it was all cosmetic stuff. missing all four hubcaps, no gas door, scratches, dings, dents, rust… that kind of stuff. people gave me crap, because;

• the galant wasn’t really in that bad of (mechanical) shape, and
• my other car is a 2004 toyota prius.

well, i’m happy to say that karma has finally reared its ugly head, and i can drive my junky-car club adorned galant with my head held high!

it all started last week when my passenger side front tire blew out on the expressway. i dropped it off at the shop to get a new tire, but i also mentioned to the nice gentleman behind the counter that the car had been making a high pitched whining noise. he said they’d take a look and let me know what the problem was. four hours later i get a phone call saying that the tire was fixed, but the whining noise was coming from a bad power steering pump that i needed to replace. the cost to fix would be nearly six hundred dollars. that nice gentleman was now in my head (unfairly) a real jerk.

today the galant is in the shop, and i just got a phone call. another nice gentleman tells me the power steering pump is now fixed, but the car still makes a good deal of whining. now the problem is in my air conditioner compressor, and that’s going to cost another $700 to fix. when the guy told me, i accidentally let loose a “holy crap!” over the phone. trust me, this was a far cry from the obscenities i was screaming about the man in my head. he quickly responded; “or, if you don’t care about having air conditioning, we can just remove the belt and it won’t make a peep.”

so, ladies and gentlemen, my clunker has nothing but god’s air conditioning for this summer… open windows. for those of you who gave me crap about my sticker… back off!

this is just a classic example of how “acting as if” can also be a bad thing….