...I didn't hear the pun until after I posted that. not mad about it

I also probably deserve it for not getting a tire rotation in like a year and a half

It's just bc it's cold out!!!!

nah theres a tear in one of the rear tires

Oh.

My tire pressure always gets low when the temperature drops suddenly, boo tear.

I park on a sideways incline so I think the rim has just been like slowly sinking into it over the last year or so

no idea when it happened! the actual pressure seems fine

but I can't unsee the tear SO I guess I get to find out what inflation has done to tire prices /sweat

today's a hospital day also, so it's like. cool cool cool I definitely have spoons for this today

omg.... that sucks buddy im sorry

how dare a minor inconvenience get in the way of all these major inconveniences

If I had today off I'd car swap and handle it for you :<

it's okay! you do enough

you need someone to do things for you

...well that's just. Not gonna happen lol. BE REALISTIC, JESSIE.

Too many inconveniences, you have more than your share to deal with

Good luck today, I wish I could donate spoons to you

lol the inconveniences are getting weirder, too! I got banned from a laundromat the other day for using their change machine but not their washing machines

I didn't know that could get you blacklisted! I just wanted quarters without talking to a human

WILD?!

I don't see why banks don't just let you have that shit delivered to your home in 2022 anyway. if I can order checks I should be able to order laundry change! harrumph

things like getting change feel archaic while still necessary, get on it, banks, modernize this shit

YEAH like we're past the era where you can just ask a cashier while you're out doing normal life things so now it's a special trip

Dear laundromat: get over yourself and upgrade to Hercules.

THANKS MOM THAT WAS HELPFUL I will now add "feel guilty about snapping at my mother" to the to-do list for today

life needs to cut you a break already

😟 do you at least get tomorrow off to relax from life?

Jessie would you like some empanadas?

cuddlebug: I mean yes always but you have better things to do with yourself than be in Jersey

I can get empanadas from Uber

EXCUSE YOU?!?!?$

You cannot get MY empanadas from Uber!!!!!!

Rude!

but YOUR empanadas require effort from specifically you and I want you to rest

like at all ever

But I'm making them anyway...........

big oof. what a rough day and it's so early in it

ok so it's 1:30 and I have finished my hospital stuff, acquired enough quarters to get laundry done, and am currently settled at the service place waiting for them to give me news about my car

I am equally tired and hungry

I brought my tablet so I could grade papers but I don't. want to.

I hope they will get back to you soon. and urgh papers

just general fussing about the most mundane things

I wished I could help in any way

I appreciate that

if i could i would bring you treats

probably sweet treats, are you a sweets human

I love sweets

but also require food before sweets because /gestures to health things

I'll probably end up combining lunch and dinner and picking up some fast food that's terrible for me on the way home

it doesn't feel as awful if it's the only meal I have time to eat

and there comes the estimate and lol welp there's $2,000 I wasn't expecting to spend today

Hey like, so can life stop being such a shithead? Maybe??

I mean I could have just taken my mom's advice and just gone to BJs for a cheap tire and not known that one of my brake rotors was rusting through

Cars are great

car advice from my parents is always like "what if you gave this sketchy mechanic fifty bucks for him to do a third of the service your car needs"

"it has to be cash though and he doesn't speak English so make sure you turn on Google translate"

my car is a 2014 and this is probably the age where it decides to be Expensive

all the little doodads give up, one by one

guess when I get home I'll round out the day fishing for grants I don't have time to honor

My car is 21 years old so. I feel the surprise expense thing so much.

"please explain how this funding will shape academia in your field"
"it won't but I need to pay bills please give me money"

A SUREFIRE GRANTWRITING STRATEGY

what is your car?

it's a corolla, nothing fancy

hmm i'm p sure my last car didn't start needing expensive repairs until it was into double digits :|aaa but i am obsessive about maintenance.

hopefully this is it for a good stretch, tho ;;

Toyotas last forever but when they break it hurts

Ask me how I know

cuddlebug oh yeah like this isn't major stuff, like. "your rotors are rusty" happens because I don't drive my car enough so rain sits still and pools

there's no major structural damage or anything, just little stuff adding up

/nodnod

I mean aside from the tire thing that's pretty awful lmao

i do really like toyota. my scion made it to /counts on fingers 16 and was still going strong, i just got hit and it wasn't worth the repair cost of the bodywork

still don't know if there's rim damage but by now I hope I would have heard about it if they found anythin

also was very ready for. you know. a grown up car with four doors and all wheel drive

man YEAH my last Toyota would have been fine if I didn't have a habit of driving into things

fingers crossed for the rim

"oops the car slipped on ice and now there's several thousand dollars in damages"

which was how I found out about my parents and the "just give it to the guy who only takes cash" which led to the car becoming a rickety death machine and me immediately being like "TIME TO BUY A NEW CAR I GUESS"

ngl, reasons i wanted all wheel drive...... i gently skidded into so many things in that lil coupe

I just decided to not drive in bad weather and I ended up having way fewer accidents

"oh, the snow is bad good thing there's a bus I can take instead"

it was a fantastic little car overall but if the road was icy? nope. i stopped driving in those conditions a few years in because i just couldn't. at first i thought it was a technique thing, but no. the car could not do the thing.

i have a 2012 rav4, so i feel this of the Suddenly Expensive stuff

they washed my car =*) it's so shiny

I mean for what I'm spending its super worth a car wash

but still nice

...this reminds me i said in june after my road trip that i needed a wash bc omg the country bug splatter........ i have not gotten a wash lol

it's ok thats what rain is for

they have it on the balancing thingy and I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping it doesn't come back with rim damage

the rain has not gotten rid of it rip

oh! ew. country bugs go hard

i mean i scrubbed with the washer thing at the gas station

and still

but also money

money

oh wow

I have my freedom again

crawls into my vehicle

they said that there was damage done to my tire sensor and that the light would probably just stay on forever, but there is no tire light right now? so maybe they just disabled it

maybe it'll just keep popping up again. like my check engine light :>

which has been on perpetually for years and freaks out first time passengers :>