My first early morning blog

I woke up at 3:30 am with a headache. Actually I woke up at 1:15 needing to pee and a headache. I had only gotten 5 hours of sleep last night and really hoped to get a good night's sleep tonight. No such luck. Finally got up at 3:30 am. I've been very depressed for the last week or so. My 97 Ford Aspire went kaput. According to my dad this is yet another of a long list of fuck ups with respect to cars and my nonmechanical nature.. You see I am a mechanic's dream. I am a car killer.

Although I took the car for an oil change a few weeks ago and the car was 9 years old with 150,000 miles on it, apparently as is always the case with my dad, I didn't keep a check on the coolant level and the head gasket blew spewing oil all thorugh the radiator and coolant system. According to me, it could have been an old head gasket that just failed. At any rate I am once again scrounging around for a cheap inexpensive car. Something I have done everytime I needed a car.

Now I am pretty good at this process. I will" hunt " till I see at least 3-4 cars that fit my budget( and fortunately, I have a brother in law who works for a car dealership he has helped a lot this time). Once in my life, I would like to go to a car lot and say I can afford this and that I would like to look at a red car with these amenities. As it is, I only care about two things when car buying, the price and how reliable the car model is.

(To any cars salepeople out there reading this let me give you a piece of advice when a middle aged guy comes on your lot and says I am looking for a car between the x and y price and this is at the the low end of the scale, Do not attempt the old chestnut of steering someone to a new car or higher priced car. Let me tell you there is nothing I enjoy more than being inadvertantly humiliated by a car salesman who thinks I am so stupid that I will buy that brand new model that's WAY out of my budget. When someone is telling you what they are looking for in price, show what you have if you have anything or tell them sorry nothing on the lot.)