<img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/47986962_15949… Kimberly Renae Ward Olinger needs your support for Grady & Sydney car repair
This is a long one folks but please help.
Ever have that life hates me moment? Well lately it seems like nothing but life hates me moments. Some of you know me irl but for those that don't I work in a deli. It's a crazy, hectic, mind numbing at times job but for the most part I love it. July is always a crazy month mainly because of the 4th. This year I decided I'm taking a week off but because of the holiday I didn't take off til the 9th. With covid any actual travel plans I would have made of course wouldn't have happened. So I planned a staycation. Go hang out with my sister who I don't get to see often even tho she lives 10 minutes away and go for a surprise visit to see my best friend. Vacation starts (friday) and I'm excited I get to see my sister the next day and hang out with her family. Due to her not feeling well (messed up back from a car accident 10+ years ago) I didn't get to see her Saturday or Sunday. Ok cool ive still got 6 days left before I return to work. Monday morning my fiancee goes to work and comes right back in. "Where's my car he says?" Me of course not being awake at all says in the driveway. Nope no car in the driveway... It's day 3 of my vacation and what am I doing? Filing a police report because our car was stolen out of the driveway. So now I get to remember exactly what all was in the car. Officer says they will try to recover the car but no guarantees. My mind is freaking out because not only is the car gone but so is our daughter's carseat. I spend the rest of the day in a funk. Trying to figure out how to not only replace the car with almost no savings but replace her carseat as well. Tuesday morning dawns and it's been a sleepless night for this mama so I trudge trough the day til about 10:30 that night. Officer calls, they found the car at a traffic stop. My spirits life and it looks like things might be going better. Because it was so late that night they had to tow the car to the impound lot. Car is in working order a little damage where they had to hotwire other than that we were told it was okay. My fiance went picked it up the next morning and had to pay $125 because they had to tow it there. I'm still trying to think happy thoughts at this point because $125 is a lot better than the 3000 plus to get a new car. We get the car back and everything is still in it!! Well almost everything her carseat is gone. Still trying to focus on happy thoughts we got the car back. My fiance drives to work he says it's acting a little funny and shaky. His mom and I go run some errands and he asks us to stop by his work. He went on lunch and when he got back he said that it was running high on temperature and wanted her to drive it around and see what she thought. She took it to it for a test drive around the block and came back saying yes it was acting funny. We decided she would take it home and bring his truck back so that he would have something to drive home that night after work. She didn't make it out of the parking lot she barely made it out of the parking spot. It started overheating and steam came out of the hood. We decided that the car was going to be unsafe to drive. So we left it there. His uncle came by after work and using a tow chain they managed to get to home. At this point I am exhausted not only from the emotional ride of the last few days but having to push it back into the spot in 90+ heat. But bright point my fiancee is off the next day and can look at it and maybe see what's wrong with the car. we ended up taking it to a mechanic because he couldn't figure out what was wrong with the car. Mechanic told us that it has a blown engine and then it would be more to fix than the car is worth. Our new car that we have had less than 4 months is now a lawn ornament. I'm trying keep the happy thoughts but it's not working. Our savings is almost gone from just tow bills alone. Now we have to get a new car and almost no money to do it. We are both essential workers so we have jobs and money coming in but with bills and everything else we live paycheck to paycheck most weeks.
Anything you can donate will help and even if you can't sharing helps too.
I know with the craziness of the world right now it may not seem like it but we are all in this together. I am a believer of if you do good, good will come to you. I've done so much good for others I'm hoping some of it will come back to me ☺️
