Waah -- maybe my new trailer is bad luck

I was in a car accident friday. MY stinking fault. I did not register a red light and went into the intersection.

The rental I got to be nice and not make sickly mom pick me up when she is in pain or doped up for her bone infection cost me more than twice what I expected from my friday accident daze, + they charged me for 4 days when I had the car for 71 hours.

My trucks u joint is broken. The welder who is building and installing a plate mounted ball hitch for me is STILL waiting for the iron plate from his supplier. I (well mom, she has been helping me out in spite of being sick I should be more grateful, dammm I hope they have the diagnosis and get her cured in 10 weeks or so. Stinking infectious disease specialist --who was the FIRST dr smart enough to have her off antibiotics before testing for problem --GAAH I knew that and I'm just an Aero. engineer, but the IFD doc did also order the right tests to show things so I guess he knows his stuff but he is not meeting mom to review the tests until friday after her test was last friday! What the heck? HELLO she is seriously sick and the infection has had 2 years to get primed to take advantage of her being totally off antibiotics. I hope this isn't some 'let the patient get really sick, then they'll feel like treatment is REALLY helping' BS.

Sorry --back to my truck --the truck service plaza center sent a whole list of 'needs done next appt' with it. They did NOT however inspect it enough to spot the broken u-joint and they told me I'd need to replace the tires soon which is absolute BS, the high quality, several year tires I replaced last year after getting at least 6 years service out of the first set look FINE, I ran out and checked when I read that in case I had bad wear and had missed it (alignment was not on the service plaza list either though) I need to quit whining and do some research/homework on what should be done with the p/u. I suppose the service plaza goes on the shortest time span service intervals --they sure don't appear to go by any actual inspections!!! and since I didn't replace tires there they didn't happen to know to change the date on that one. Well they've lost a customer, I need a reliable mechanic to help me keep my vehicle running, not someplace that is just selling their most profitable services.


OK if anyone read to the end of this they are a trooper and I know full well that one could argue that my luck is still good,
the U-joint was found and didn't break on me out in the middle of nowhere, leaving me to try to remember how I would limp home by taking it off completely or tying it up and using the 4WD setting to have a FWD truck -yeah dad had to do that once with an old p/u we owned. I hit a p/u and did little damage to it and no injuries so I don't that extra weight on my concsious from my lack of attention to my driving. I have great neighbors who will have to be coerced to accept gas money for fetching me tonight.