Yesterday on the way to church, our driver side window started going down. All by itself. And it wouldn't stop! We got to church and Frank couldn't get it back up, so we had to leave it and pray it didn't rain while we were in church. It didn't. Thank you, Lord! After church we came home and he took the panel off the door to see if he could fix it. He couldn't. Ugh. We could tell the rain was coming and I REALLY didn't want to drive around with a plastic bag taped to my window, so I called around and found a repair shop open on a Sunday! YAY! I was stressed out thinking about how I really can't live without my van and how much I have to get done this week. The shop told me I would have to leave it overnight and they THOUGHT they would be able to fix it by Monday afternoon. SO I made some phone calls, rearranged some things, and made plans with my mom to use her car today so I could still get some stuff done.
Still, I was irritated. I felt like yesterday was the WORST possible day that could have happened! I was already overwhelmed and stressed out with everything I needed to get done and I needed my van!!! Then I got to thinking about it... it could have happened while I was driving down the freeway... or in the middle of the night on Saturday when we were having severe thunderstorms... or in the middle of the night, on the freeway, during a severe thunderstorm. SO I guess it really isn't that bad. Almost $300 later, I should be able to pick up my van this afternoon. With a window that works. Hopefully the passenger side window will hang in there... but if it doesn't, I hope it breaks on a sunny Sunday morning while we're on our way to church.
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Holy Moly! $300 to fix a window! Ouch!
Hope you have better luck today!
You words remind me of one of my favorite statements on Attitude by Charles Swindoll --
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
My Jeep Liberty's window did that twice...the first time on the way to a friend's baby shower and the second time on the way home from seeing her baby for the first time! I told her that if my window does that again, don't bother sending me news about a baby - I would already know! LOL!
At least you stayed dry and safe!
$300 is way to expensive. Well I guess for me since my hubby is mechanic and does all the work which saves us tons of $$$
awww man. no fun!! hope the passenger side stays put. well not put put. but you know. :0)
Man, I hate when that happens! We're still putting off fixing ours, but since it's stuck in the op position it's not so urgent as yours.
Glad it's fixed. We had a car that we fixed 3 out of 4 windows in it. Window motors are expensive!
We had an 06 Jeep Liberty. We had to replace SIX of them in four months...SIX..that's just nuts. Luckily it was under warranty, however..after the sixth one..and being told that...OH..yeah we just keep fixing them until they figure out the problem..and we don't knwo when that will be so they are not going to do a re-call....we traded it in.... I live in Phoenix..and the three times I had to drive home in 115 degree heat.....with the window down..yeah that was enough.
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