Happy Tuesday after a long weekend!  I had a fantastic and lazy weekend.  Exactly what I wanted to do.  I probably should have been more productive with my time, but laying around was just too awesome. 

Now that I have gotten the pleasantries out of the way, my car hates me.  I don’t know if there is some unwritten rule about cars needing to crap out after four years, but this seems to  be a common thing for me.  I thought cars were suppose to last years and years with proper maintenance.  Not my cars.  My cars must hate me and decide to become my own personal nightmare after four years.

My first car was purchased brand spanking new.  I loved it.  Then after about four years, things went south.  Random plastic pieces started breaking off.  Like the all important seat reclining handle!  How in the world does that just break off one day on a fairly new, low mileage car?  After mechanically problems became a regular occurrence, I threw in the towel on that car.  It was just over 60,000 miles when I traded it in.  What a waste.

My second and current car had now decided to become a pain in the ass.  Again, it just turned four this year.  I love my car.  It has been a wonderful, comfy car, but if things don’t shape up, I will not hesitate to drive it into the lake.  This weekend my battery died.  Just up and died.  Now I have been told the battery lasted more than the average battery life, but still, it was a pain for me B to fix.  The very afternoon after I B replaced the battery, the driver’s side window breaks.  Not broken glass breaks, the window won’t roll up.  And if you finally get the window up using shear force, it will just fall down at the first bump in the road.  Seeing as how Gustav is promising lots of rain later in the week, a broken window is a bit of a problem.

This is where B and I had to get creative.  We had to figure out some way to keep the window up.  B came up with the idea of using a suction cup on the window.  After a trip to Lowes.  B and I sat in the parking lot trying to figure out how to get the suction cup to stay on the window.  Did you know suction cups are tricky little buggers?  It’s not the simple lick and stick method anymore.  Now you lick, stick, twist and lock.  I finally figured out the method, on my passenger side window.  And then I couldn’t get the darn thing off!  At least we knew it would work.

Plan A was to tie a rope from the suction cup hook to the handle above the door.  The rope had to be pulled upwards to keep the window from sliding down.  I was having a hard time holding the rope tight so I had the bright idea to go around to the driver’s side.  B said, “You can’t go around.  You won’t be able to open the door.”  I didn’t understand what he was trying to tell me so I got out anyways.  I made it half way around the car before I realized.  Duh, I can’t go around, the rope will be tied from the window to the handle above the door.  Wait a minute, if we can’t open the door, how will B get out?  Crap.

Plan B.  B and I thought maybe we could find a small stick to place under the suction cup and leverage it against the door handle.  That would keep the window propped up.  It didn’t sound very secure, but we couldn’t figure out how to keep the window up.  While we sat there, still in the Lowes parking lot, a light bulb finally went off.

Plan C.  Duh, we can just place the suction cup at the base of the window and that will keep it from sliding down.  How simple.  And creative!  I can’t believe how long it took us to come to that conclusion.  I think we sat in the Lowes parking lot a good 20 minutes before we figured it out.

The moral of the story, two idiots make a right.  Eventually we found a solution, but not before some rather extreme and ridiculous ideas we thrown out.