As most of you saw on my facebook account we have been having a bad run with repair problems lately. It started with a couple of days before vacation. My brakes starting with a grinding sound, not a squeal, a grind. Well we called and made an appointment to get new brakes. Well if only that was the problem. Once they got the brakes off they found my callipers had seized. I had no idea what that meant, but I knew it was not good. So we went from replacing brakes to replacing brakes, rotors, and callipers. As you can imagine it tripled the cost.
Then we leave for vacation an on the way David's a/c stops working. Once we got home and he had out trusty repairman look at it, we found out it was not the a/c. It actually has something to do with the turbo on his truck and now we are looking at a couple of grand to fix it.
Then coming home from vacation we found my dishwasher not working well. By Monday it had quit washing all together. GREAT!! The third problem in a week. I made David take me Monday night to look at dishwashers. I even stopped by the ATM to get the cash out to buy one. (Because we all know Dave Ramsey says you get more with cash!!) So off we went. By 8:30 we had look at multiple appliances and I only had one more store I wanted to go too. But EVERYWHERE closes at 9PM. So off we went in a rush. We got there and I found the one I wanted. With 10 minutes till closing we went into working out the details. I had cash, I wanted that one, and I wanted to take it with me then. Notice all the "I's" in that sentence. Well that is what happens when the only thing we are thinking about is ourselves. The sales rep went to check and sure enough, there were none in stock and would not be any until FRIDAY!!! Now it is after 9 and we had to go home....empty handed.
So on the way home my husband, who had kept his opinion to himself and was just trying to make me happy, quietly said call your dad tomorrow and see what he thinks it can be. After all he is the ultimate handyman. You know that had not even crossed my mind. I was so in the "ME MODE" that my brain was not working. When I got up Tuesday I called him. He told me a couple of things to check and if that didn't work just hang on until he could get a few days to come down and look at it. I thought okay well I can wash dishes for a while if it will save me $400-$500.
He called me yesterday to say he was going to be here this morning. How is that for quick service?? He gets here this morning spends about 20 minutes cleaning it out and it started working again perfectly. Yep MY DAD ROCKS!!!
So what did I learn from this? Patience. I have none. I need to stop and really think about if going out and buying a new .....whatever.....is really worth it. In this case it was not. And last but not least ....NEVER forget how lucky I am to have a Dad like mine. He loves me no matter what I have done in my life, he is always there for me when I need him, and he ALWAYS buys ice cream when he visits. Sometimes it the little things in life. LOL
P.S. Does the description of my dad remind you of anyone??? (Minus the ice cream)
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