Blessings In Disguise

You know how sometimes things happen and you just can't do anything about it? You try praying and it still happens but not as bad as it could have been? Well that's what happened to us this week. We thought we were going to get hit with a $2000+ repair on Brandon's car. That's a hefty chunk of change when you aren't expecting it. Brandon's car has been sounding/driving funny for a few weeks now so he took it in cause he thought it was a wheel bearing. They 'fixed' that problem which was $250 but the car still sounded the same. They told him it was probably the transmission going out. Our car was bought brand new off the lot. Had like 11 miles on. Is only 4 years old and is a Toyota. We never would have thought we'd have a major problem like that for quite a few years. So when we got that news we both started freaking out. Transmissions are usually around $2000+. Who has that kind of money to just fork out? I mean really?
Brandon ended up taking the car to a dealer and they said the transmission needed to be flushed and the people that fixed the wheel bearing fixed the wrong one. Who does that?! So we forked out $250 kinda for nothing. Bah. Anyway, so they repaired it today and when Brandon picked it up I called him to see if it still sounded like the back seat of an air plane and he said no! It sounded normal! Thank heaves! The dealer did charge us $650 but that is tons more digestible than $2000+!! So even though we still had to fork out more than what we would have liked I consider it a blessing. It could have been faaaaarrr worse!