My Car

So, 3 years ago i bought a 1991 Geo Prism from my brother-in-law. He gave me a sweet deal and i took it off his hands. For these last three years my car has been fantastic. The only thing i have had to fix on it is the radiator and that was relatively cheap. A few months back i went to spend the weekend with my sister and her family. One night she piled all of her kids in the back of the car and took the kids for a joy ride to the neighbor's house. The next morning i went out to drive to church and they shocks on the car had bottomed out. I blamed her. I drove to church with it that day and came back out ready for the bumpy ride back to Portland. When i reached my car the shocks were no long bottomed out, God healed my car. This was 3 or 4 months ago.

A month ago, i was driving home from a terrible day of work and pulled into the driveway at Multnomah. The driveway has multiple speed bumps. As i raced over the bumps the shocks again bottomed out, for what i thought was the last time. For the last month my car has just sat as we have tried to decide what to do with it. I finally decided after much trouble to sell my car for whatever i could get out of it and then buy a new car when we moved to Seattle. Today i went to pickup my car and drive it to a friends house for him to sell for me. I went to start it and it wouldn't start because the battery is old and crappy. Jodi was there so we jump started it. With the squeal of the belts it started. As i looked at the car sitting their I thought to myself, "Self, you should keep this car, its been so good to you and God healed it once. Its sacred." I think maybe i should name my car Corbin. As i waited for my wife i decided to call one more shop close by and see how much it would cost to fix the two shocks on the back. I had gotten a few prices before and they were always at least $400 bucks, which is almost more money than the car is worth. So i called today i was $250. We decided to get it fixed.

The shop is right down the street from where my car has been sitting so i immediately drove it over to the shop. On the way there i drove down the same driveway and over the same speed bumps where i broke the shocks before. After the first bump it suddenly felt like i was riding on air. My car seemed to float on top of the bumps like I was riding in the clouds. My shocks were working again, my car had been healed, again. Well, me being of little faith, i drove to the shocks place anyways and i am still getting new shocks on the back of the car. I have faith, but i also don't want to drive all the way to Seattle on bad shocks. By the way, if all shocks that you buy have a lifetime warranty, why don't they put those on the car in the first place.