I just didnt want it to come across the wrong way. With text only, stuff gets misunderstood a lot easier.
I know you well enough to know you always mean well.
You have been unfailingly kind to me for a very long time and I am so grateful for you.
It seems I will have to postpone his appointment to another day.
Tomorrow it’s going to rain hard all day and the PT Loser doesn’t like rain at all.
I have 4 steep mountains to get over, plus the insane city traffic compounded by holiday shoppers and the reflective lines on the highway just are not anymore.
Plus, it will be over 50 degrees so we’ll be coming back over the mountains in treacherous fog, which other drivers don’t seem to be able to manage safely.
The car has cheap “all weather” tires on it and it’s front wheel drive and it hydroplanes like crazy when it rains.
I talked to the hospital staff and the vet feels like it would be better to wait a bit and slip us in ASAP so we’re not in danger with the car.
She is aware of the car’s issues and is fine with this, as she absolutely wants no harm to come to us.
So, I am currently looking at Walmart’s website to see if I can get “winter tires” with an aggressive tread for cheap and also on payment plans, like Affirm and Klarna.
Can’t afford to pay for them outright but *might* be able to manage monthly payments.
I do not think we’re going to have the “mild, wet winter” they said we would and fear the upcoming sleet and ice very much.
The lightweight little Loser cannot even get up my 600 foot mountain, let alone the 1000+ mountains between here and there unless it’s dry as a bone.
I HAVE to do something to make us safer in this car.
:(
If anyone knows of really, REALLY affordable snow/ice/rain tires that would work, I’d be grateful.
This is not my forte’.
*Bless my mom’s heart, she asked if I couldn’t find “another way to Gaithersburg”.
Well, there’s RT 40 over the mountains and I70 over the mountains.
I reckon I could drive down I81 into Virginia a couple hundred miles and slip up in the back way.
Yeesh.