I am sick and tired of my car! I'm in college, but with the cost of living in the area (and the crime around the campus) I live away from campus. I also I have a part time job (which I also hate) that I have to drive to. I'm a broke college student driving a 1994 Grand Am with damn near 200,000 miles on it. Noone knows a crappy car until you drive this one. I have had it towed 3 times in the last 50 miles. Each time I had work done to it (towed it right to the shop). Each time a different thing wrong. Currently, I can drive it about half a mile without any major problems (not including the smell of oil burning, and after a rain it tends to get a little wet on your feet)... the problem with driving that half mile is to get the key to turn over. In the past two weeks my key hasn't been letting me turn it over every time (i have to beat it to get it to turn). And if I want to drive to the grocery store (that is 4 miles away and I have to cross the Mississippi River)... I have to drive at a SLIGHT incline (maybe 5 degrees?), and my car is like "this peice of $%!& better!" (instead of the old 'I think I can, I think I can). So at my tiny incline... my car can MAYBE top 35, then it feels like its gone electric (as in, no engine sound)-thats when it freaks me out. G.AM's are fairly low to the ground and having a pissed off SUV behind you is terror! With all the money I put into it, and it still hasn't gotten fixed-I just gave up! In college money is hard to find, and putting 500 a month in a car is just insane!
And if that doesn't annoy me enough... At least the car looked nice... now someones car hit mine and left a good strip of paint missing (and sadly I wasn't there to catch the driver).
I am counting down the days until graduation and I can take a bat to this thing!
I am sick and tired of my car! I'm in college, but with the cost of living in the area (and the crime around the campus) I live away from campus. I also I have a part time job (which I also hate) that I have to drive to. I'm a broke college student driving a 1994 Grand Am with damn near 200,000 miles on it. Noone knows a crappy car until you drive this one. I have had it towed 3 times in the last 50 miles. Each time I had work done to it (towed it right to the shop). Each time a different thing wrong. Currently, I can drive it about half a mile without any major problems (not including the smell of oil burning, and after a rain it tends to get a little wet on your feet)... the problem with driving that half mile is to get the key to turn over. In the past two weeks my key hasn't been letting me turn it over every time (i have to beat it to get it to turn). And if I want to drive to the grocery store (that is 4 miles away and I have to cross the Mississippi River)... I have to drive at a SLIGHT incline (maybe 5 degrees?), and my car is like "this peice of $%!& better!" (instead of the old 'I think I can, I think I can). So at my tiny incline... my car can MAYBE top 35, then it feels like its gone electric (as in, no engine sound)-thats when it freaks me out. G.AM's are fairly low to the ground and having a pissed off SUV behind you is terror! With all the money I put into it, and it still hasn't gotten fixed-I just gave up! In college money is hard to find, and putting 500 a month in a car is just insane!
And if that doesn't annoy me enough... At least the car looked nice... now someones car hit mine and left a good strip of paint missing (and sadly I wasn't there to catch the driver).
I am counting down the days until graduation and I can take a bat to this thing!
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