The long hunt for his car is over. Meet No Name, my son's new car! (he does not name things). As is so typical, all the cars I've been researching had one thing or another wrong, were overpriced, too many miles, or the dealer was so shady as to have F ratings with the BBB. Finally I randomly plunked 'used ford focus fort worth' and voila, a ( Read more... )

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I hate cars. I really do. They are expensive to run, maintain and with a teenage son, insure. My daughter has just about completely taken over the responsibility of her car, but that doesn't lessen my worry and responsibility (making sure she gets the oil etc. changed, takes care of the tires, etc.). And now I have to add another, for my son. He ( Read more... )

Okay I should say that everything IS going to be okay, no one was hurt...but just when life was settling down and I was starting to panic less about being a single mom of two with two in college (ok son not yet, but soon enough), of course Something Else Had to Happen to knock me off that, in the form of my son wrecking the car tonight. Fortunately ( Read more... )