Not that big in the grand scheme of things but due to financial reasons, I can’t afford a reliable car. I have a good job but am single and pay full time nursery fees alone and am buying ex h out of the family home so am on a very tight budget. Plus, for remortgage purposes don’t want to have any credit.
My dad kindly loans me his old bmw to drive but it’s 21 years old! All I hear from mechanics is ‘oh it has a great engine for its age’ but it’s completely unreliable.
I don’t use it every day.
Anyway, today I was on my way to take my almost 4 year old to a birthday party. It’s his best friend from nursery and DS was so excited. He had been talking about it for about a month because it was at a theme park/land type place. He was singing the songs and watching the programmes this morning as was so excited.
Anyway, car broke down on the motorway. On grass verge for 4 hours waiting to be towed.
Distraught little boy.
He forgot about it soon enough but I can’t help feel that if his mum had money/wasn’t separated he wouldn’t be missing out.
I am just grateful that I got onto the hard shoulder safely as the car was smoking and losing power but I still have a little sadness that he was all excited and dressed up only to come back home again.