Van

We were at my folks place to fill up our water bottles. We can't afford to replace the reverse osmosis thingy in the kitchen, so we are using "bottled" water. We have several 18 & 15 litre jugs that we are re-filling from my parents taps. We can't afford to buy water. Nor can we afford to replace the water softener. Our dishwasher is dying because of the hard water, and I am sure our other appliances are slowly being damaged as well.

Anyway, after filling the bottles, I went to start the van to move into the street, when the engine quit, the lights went out, the radio went out, nothing worked. I barely held it together. If my dad wasn't there, I would've lost it and probably beat the living crap out of the van. We fiddled with the a few things, nothing worked. I disconnected the battery and re-attached the cables. Lo and behold, the van started again. And guess what, the enging light also didn't come back on. Could be it was just a looses connection or something...

Anyhoo, a couple of days later, the engine light came back on... sux to be me.

Oh, and another thing, we are using the van because we can't afford to use the car. So we park it at my wife's work, she has a subsided spot. The underground parking is pretty tight, you so you have to maneuver the van pretty carefully to get 'er in and out... A few times now, when the wife is pulling out of the spot to drive over to my work to pick me up, she turned a little too quickly out of the spot, and dented and scrapped the door and rear fender too, looks like ass, but at least it still runs.