meltdown...
My car caught fire today.
while I was driving... I was trying to make it to the LYS and I smelled something odd... hoped it wasn't my car, and within 20 seconds the car was filled with smoke!
Thank heavens my kids weren't in there--
I stopped 50 feet from the LYS (lol) and the lady in the insurance place called 911 for me, I was trying to stop, roll down the windows, get into a legal parking spot (why the eff was that important to me? Sigh) AND put it in park... I got out and the entire inside was smoke-filled. I feel like my lungs are singed (the firefighters didn't offer me oxygen, wish they had).
So fortunately we got a flexcar membership last week. (!)
Dh got a car and brought the kids out and I was able to run my errands (and I know that you guys will in no way judge me when after the firefighters left, but before dh and the tow truck came, I ran up to the LYS still coughing and got the hairpin lace loom I was after)
And, as it turns out, the stupid car issue? The ahole who sold it to us a couple of years ago had a fancy stereo in it that he didn't want to give us with the car, so he'd gotten his "friend" to take it out and put the standard one in--and the idiot left the amp wire "hot" and we're very, very lucky that the entire car didn't melt down.
Oy.