Sue’s Sanctuary

They always joke about women and cars.. like how clueless women are when it comes to car maintenance.  With some exceptional women who are more car savvy than your old regular mechanic, I belong to the second type that relies on men to maintain my car.

Just this fine Saturday morning, my car tyre burst while I was driving and my car shook violently and cars are honking at me for me to stop.  The tyre was literally not only flat but torn like a ragged doll. 

And the nuts and bolts are screwed so tightly you can’t expect me to open it and change it there and then.. furthermore, I’ve pulled over to the leftside of the highway and there are cars speeding at top speed on my right… yeah, that tyre that went bust was on the right. 

The insurance mechanic came in 30 minutes, considered ‘not bad’ standard as far as Malaysia goes, and my spare tyre was intact within minutes.  But then again.. it looked kinda deflated so I exchanged cars with hubby to go to wherever I was heading and he drove my car away to change the tyre.

Still on car breakdowns, I remember last year, my car temperature was literally boiling twice.  Once, it went down and I resumed my journey. The other time, I stopped right smack in the middle of a highway and at the peak of a flyover.  Great.  And it was a weekday, peak hour, rush hour, people leaving work to go home.. hence I caused a backlog to 2km to 5km?  So embarrassing… but then again, I’m a woman, see me stop my car.. what can you do about it?  Haha.