Car and Mouse

Last Tuesday I took Miriam to school at 8:30 and then was going up the hill on the way home and the car started to lose power so I decided to move over to the shoulder and that is when it stopped going! I stopped on this wide part of the shoulder and then when I stepped on the gas nothing happened but the car started coasting backwards, which I thought was bad. So I called Chuck and he said to call the dealer for their towing service. When Chuck pulled up I got out of the car and turned around and looked back and saw that the shoulder had been very narrow and as I pulled over it got wider and wider until the car stopped, and we were in a pretty safe area. It looked like an exercise in perspective.

Anyway, later on in the day the guy from the dealer called and said that MICE had chewed up the wires in the car, and that is why it stopped! There was also dog food stored in the car engine, which if you ask me is not the best place to store food. Kind of funny, except for the part where the dealer says this is like an act of God and is not covered by warranty.

Those darn mice. Their days are numbered.

One week later we have fewer mice already, but I took Miriam to school on Monday and on the way home the car stopped going forward again. I got a little further this time, but ended up on the side of the road. A family in our ward pulled over when they saw me. Their daughter knows our car from babysitting for us. But I said I was waiting for Chuck and the tow truck, and they left. The tow truck driver came before Chuck could get there, and as I was standing on the side of the road with the car seat next to me my visiting teacher went driving by and turned around and came back to get me. The tow truck left and I sat in her car for a few minutes before it occurred to us that she could just take me home and Chuck could meet me there. It turned out that not only were the wires chewed up last week, but the transmission has some problem, so they are fixing it. It has been kind of funny and great how last week and this week people from church just keep stopping as we are on the side of the road, to see if we are okay.