EVERY Single Time....

Tim goes away, stuff goes wrong. Let's look at the past...

2001 - In the sandbox. The day I was suppose to leave to go back to school, his truck that I was driving decided not to work, got the better truck in the end, only to get a speedying ticket in for doing 44 in a 35 in the rain. Damn cops! Oh yeah, and came home a whole 9 days later than he was suppose to...Damn AF!

2003 - Went to a different sandbox. While he was gone, his truck broke leaving me stranded for a few hours before I could get a hold of the flight chief to come and get me and well fix the truck so that I could go home. That same year, 2 days before he came home, the battery in his motorcycle decided not to work and then when he came home the truck (Blazer) that was working fine the whole time he was gone and the day we decided to leave for vacation the battery went TOTALLY dead!

2005 - Another Sandbox. The blazer failed MOT (the yearly inspection) for more things than you can count. Had to have my mom bring over $800 in car parts in her suitcase so I could have the blazer fixed b/c the part were dealer parts. Go figure. I had to drive my 6'1 father around in my Mini, and old one, and almost had to do the same with my mom. oh yea and a year later when we had to do the same job again, the parts were now avaliable to from Napa and about $250 less a piece.

2006 - Same sandbox as previous deployment. Tim isn't gone 2 days and both cars break. At this point I just have to laugh. Even before he left he checked everything over to make sure it was okay for my little Honda and well I blew a hole in the radiator about 6 inches in diameter. To make this even better I couldn't drive the blazer b/c we were waiting on the fuel pump from the states (again, another dealer part). Then about a month before he came home, the battery totally went on the blazer and I couldn't drive that either. This was the WORST deployment out of the bunch.

2009 - School in Germany. The day Tim leaves for school in Germany the internet goes out in the house. Not a huge deal, it was really only in my room, it is a minor fix, just have to go to the store and buy it. With that being said, buying stuff, the people that pay me for doing my very boring job (but a job none-the-less) decided that they were going to pay someone for it. They paid my paycheck to the girl that works at ANOTHER BASE!! It is being worked on as we speak, hopefully will get taken care of my tomorrow but well, we all know how the military works so who knows. He's only been gone 3 days, lets hope this is the worst of it. Not sure who I'm going to call or how I would pay for it if the car broke on me again.

Fingers crossed, knock on wood....