Hard Day for the Crolla’
Its been a loong day today. Was at work most of the day. Papa took the Corolla to get it serviced. Turns out the people at the dealership said that the tyre on the driver’s side was damaged from the inside and that it was so badly damaged that it was ready to burst any moment. It needed to be fixed right away and they asked for 300 bucks!!! Papa called me at work and I said this was the case. I remember last weekend, I was driving back to the apartment and the car bumped high in this huge pothole that I missed. Maybe it was caused by this! Now, I have a pretty new car and it has warranty on it, but the dealership said that since this was not a “defect” per se, they would not reimburse us. Finally after much khitpit, they agreed to discount 50 bucks! Bah! It was still superexpensive to get the tyre replaced! Papa had to stay there for FIVE hours to get it fixed!
Now, on the brighter side I got to drive papa’s car all day today! **beaming** Now there are a lot of differences in dad’s car and mine. It drives like its flowing water, it is spick and span no stray papers, receipts, or CDs, when you turn the player on you can hear bhajans, there are very few hindi film CDs, and even after using it for about the same time as mine, it still drives much better than my Crolla’. I guess thats how papa’s cars are always! Does not have to bear the brunt of rough, fast driving on highways.
Again, I have my best buddy, my Crolla’ with me. I think I am going to try to keep it with me for as long as I can! After all it did save my life in a bad bad wreck two years ago. Hopefully, no more surprise potholes will spring up and my buddy will not have to be ‘hospitalized’ again now Touch wood! : - )