Ghetto Fabulous

A few days ago I noticed that my car was making a funny noise. It seemed to be slightly louder when I was accelerating. I went into Mac & Sam this morning and scheduled an appointment of friday to have it looked at. While I was there I described what was happening and asked if he thought it was safe to drive to Kutztown this week. He looked at me with that "you're such a girl" look and replied, I can not answer that question without looking at the car first. I have no idea what is wrong with it. I took that as I'm over reacting and left for school.

I leave Kutztown after class. !5 minutes into my hour and a half ride I hear a loud thump followed by my car becoming extreamly noisy and a scraping metal sound happening below. This is the sound of your exhaust falling off your car and dragging on the ground. So now I'm that girl driving on the highway with something dragging from the under part of my car, causing sparks to fly from the metal scraping on the ground. (in case you haven't noticed I love the "I'm that girl" statements.)

I immediately call Enoch and ask what I should do. He tells me to keep driving, I don't listen. I pull over at the first exit, get out a look under my car. I then find out that it was not the back part of the exhaust that fell off, that part is still attached, it's the front part up near the front axel, that has fallen off. It's a good thing I stopped. If i had hit a pot hole that could have been really bad.

Enoch tells me to go to Pep Boys and have them wire the exhaust up so I can drive home. Unfortunately I am in the middle of no-where's-ville with no Pep Boy's in sight. Luckily there is a toyota dealership right next to me. I go in, they won't help me but tell me to drive down the road a mile to an STS. Great I'm back in the car driving with things scraping on the ground again. I get to STS and luckily they helped me, they wired up my exhaust without auctually fixing it (I was under strick instructions by my mechanic not to let anyone fix it, it would cost too much money) for free and I was on my way.

I had to drive with the windows open since now the car keeps filling with exhaust which is coming from under the drivers seat and my car is so loud that people are looking at me but at least I made it home safe and let's be honest, in the scheme of things this was not bad at all. I didn't compleatly break down, no one was hurt or stranded, it only delayed my trip one half hour, I got it sort of fixed for free and it made for a great story. (And if I'm being honest, I love the fact that my car is so loud. I've always had a secret love for those cars that are all suped up and have tips on their exhaust. I know, I'm nuts!) I like to think of my car now a ghetto fabulous!

I'm getting it fixed tomorrow.