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Why Medieval Knights Went Completely Insane

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Hello everyone,

We cannot thank you all enough for your staggering generosity. We have another month here in the most amazing apartment thanks to everyone. In fact, we overshot our goal for rent which is excellent, because sadly we need to put it towards auto repairs so my partner has reliable transportation to work.

My partner and I went on a dry run taking the bus to his work yesterday. This was an incredibly brave endeavor because there is definitely some of trauma attached to public transit for him buried deep enough that he can't even discuss it, not to mention his debilitating anxiety. I am just incredibly proud of him stepping out of his comfort zone.

Unfortunately this could be problematic. There's a substantial amount of walking for him, and he has severe plantar fasciitis (the podiatrist said my partner had some of the highest arches he'd ever seen). It's bad enough he had to give up a couple of jobs that he really enjoyed because it was simply too painful for him. Because our public transit runs less frequently on the weekends (particularly Sunday, because jesus), we might be looking at renting lyft/uber for him which is not ideal.

Additionally, while it isn't a war zone, it probably isn't the "best" part of town. My partner's aforementioned anxiety is not helped in this regard. I need to get him a little keychain pepper spray canister just in case.

So.. this brings us back to our car. It's a twenty year old sedan that used to be very pretty many years ago, with 167k miles on the odometer. It's got nearly new tires, brakes, a recent transmission flush, and a relatively decent interior.

The mechanic quoted us roughly $1600 to address the issues we're facing and there's no guarantee it will solve everything. It additionally doesn't include OEM front shocks and struts that they strongly advised were in need of replacement, and doesn't even address the throttle position sensor/throttle body quirks I've fought with for ten years.

Basically I have to decide: do I want to try and keep this poor car going? We can't even afford our rent on our own, so a car payment on top of everything would be a non-starter. We don't even have the income needed for one of those buy-here-pay-here-loan-shark used car lots, let alone a traditional bank loan.

On the other hand, I don't want to make decisions based on the "sunk cost fallacy" either. We (and by we I mean our family and friends, of course) have spent a substantial amount of money on this vehicle already. Do we really want to pour more into it? Even if we did all of this *and* the shocks and struts *and* the throttle body, that transmission has 167k miles on it, and had never been flushed (to my knowledge) until less than 20k miles ago. What if that sucker decides to go?

To be fair, a substantial portion of this $1600+ we're looking at are routine maintenance tasks that has been postponed for a decade or more (Why the fuck is a "charcoal canister" $700?? The spark plugs and coils don't even cost that much), which in my eyes doesn't make this car so much a "lemon", as just severely neglected.

I have no idea what to do, but I need to do it quickly. I do *not* trust the local tow companies to give us leeway about the car registration, but I have nowhere to move it until then, if I can even make it anywhere the way it's now running. Our temporary permit expired this weekend which means we can't legally drive it and we're sitting ducks for the tow companies. In my lovely state, you have to go directly to the DMV to request a second temp permit and I don't have time in the next few days to dedicate six! hours to get to our DMV and back by public transit.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

*sigh* I better wrap this up before I become self-deprecating, and because I need to start getting ready for my exciting workday at my illustrious retail job.

If you're willing AND able, please boost and if possible donate. If you can't donate, *do NOT feel guilty* for being in the same boat as us. Your feelings about it are valid but rest assured you needn't feel bad.

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