Say Goodbye to the Honda...
This past weekend my car broke down on the side of the interstate in St. Louis this weekend on the way to the wedding. I was just driving along like normal when suddenly my battery light went on and then clunk clunk clunk under the car and black things went flying out of the back of my car resulting in engine lights going on and the car stopping. I managed to pull off to the side of the road.
It took triple A an hour to get there as I sat in the heat in a tank shirt while construction guys kept coming by and putting it in neutral to push me out of their way. Anyway, my dad met me at the shop we towed it to and I was still only 15 minutes late to the rehearsal dinner for my cousin's wedding.
Here she is at the shop one last time...

Here's the pic of the engine: the belt rubbed part of the casing away causing the belt to fly off, things to break and fly out, the pistons to stick and all but one of the cylinders to lose power.

The shop guy told me he didn't think it was worth the money to put a new engine in it and my dad agreed so the shop is sending me a few bucks and they are donating to the diabetes fund so I guess that's nice. I had to find a last minute flight back to get home. So up next on my list of things to do that I don't want to...buy a new car.