The problem with cars...

... is that you can leave without them, but if you start to drive one around for long enough, you can't live without one too...

And they are costly...

Over the year and a half that I started driving the family car, I had spent lots of money on the car... With age and a minor accident later, the bonnet, the front bumper, the aircon unit, the condenser, the timing belt, the wipers, the engine oil, the gear oil, the tyres etc had been changed. And it is a little frustrating to know that the aircon unit is still not cold enough...

And to top that, recently, I managed to scrap my car... twice... Once, it was off a certain migrant worker's elbow... He had decided that Singapore is actually part of his hometown and was taking his own sweet time walking along the road whilst talking to his friends... I had really slowed down and was really just cruising by him to make sure that I will not knock into him. BUT, as Murphy's Law will have it, he will have to stretch out his elbow enough to hit my side mirror... And the impact was pretty big... I stopped my car immediately and the fella was holding on to his elbow, in pain and looking at me apologetically... I think he was more worried that I will come down and scold him... I was more worried he will be hurt, actually... Luckily, he and his friends waved at me apologetically and walked off and I drove off... Later on, I found the paint scraped off the side mirror... *faintz*

And then the second time, I think I was a little blur when parking and dunno what I was doing... As I reverse into the lot, I got blurred and drive right into a pillar, scraping the rear side of the car... The paint came off... *Haiz*...

Now I got to spend money to have the scraped parts re-painted soon... Else, corrosion might set in...

And just when I thought the worst is over... As I make a stopover at LS', I received a parking summons... I had forgotten to display my coupon... Yes... The coupon was torn, but I forgot to display it... *Grumble*

BUT... then I found out that SS did not put coupon too and is parked at the same MSCP... But he did NOT receive a parking summons! *Grr...* I suspect the parking aunties were too lazy to walk up higher than the 2nd storey as SS is parked on the 3rd storey but I was at the 2nd storey...

I was really pissed off...

*Haiz*... The car is really very expensive to maintain... Boy keeps asking me sell the car and stop driving cos I was spending too much on the car liao... But I never hear him complain when I was driving him around... :p

Thanks for reading...