Howdy,
Thankfully, I’m not writing about having had to slam the brakes for safety.
However, car brakes slammed me.
I am having to have the brakes on our family vehicle replaced for safety.
Today — it’s happening as I write — both the front and back brakes are being reset.
The estimate hit too many hundreds of dollars. After handing over my keys to the evil man — who speaks in numbers, wait times and dollar signs — and staggering away from the counter, I shuffled down the street to where I sit. Ordering and eating a cheap breakfast, writing, and wondering what the “damages” will be.
Nothing else much I can do with those slamming brakes but pay to get them fixed. That’s what I’ll be doing next. Paying.
The fact that it is a family ride softens the blow. They are so worth it.
And if I’m ever the one doing the slamming, I want those brakes to fight.
[FYI, I am also thankful to be pacing ahead of my 550 words per post average on my way to a year of 200,000 words. Today’s can afford to be short. (Good to be able to “afford” today. Yuck, it hurts just thinking about paying for my brakes being replaced). I’ll likely be cashing in some words on shorter posts this month, since I’m simultaneously working on fiction — if it makes you feel better, so far I’ve written an additional 700 non-blog words today: makes me feel better 🙂 I’m revising/rewriting and aiming to publish a story before the end of the year. Putting it out there, but it’s a push … Hitting the gas!]
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
(Editor’s note: post written on time with publishing delayed due to hosting company issues.)
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