Mindy5767
Loving My DVC Membership
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All this talk about Car-ma!! Scares me! Lois had practically brand new cars and they went bad! We own a Chevy truck that is just over 100k and I plan another 10 years for it. My van that we're driving to Disney is a 2001. I have fixed that darned Chevy so many times (and we've had so many Chevys) they should give me a permanent fast pass at Test Track. 
My van has a VHS tape player in it. But its ok. I have 105 kids VHS videos... probably more than 1/3rd of them Disney. I get to drive to Disney estimating the amount of gas in my tank because GM can't figure out how to fix the gas indicator. They replaced the sending unit twice. Its more like a spending unit now. But I REFUSE to get a new vehicle just cause the Obama admin. wants me to!! There's been talk of forcing people to retire their old gas guzzling trucks!! NO WAY!! Besides, last time we exited Test Track, we went into the new car showroom they have there. We looked at a Traverse. It was tempting... but it doesn't really get better gas mileage than my van (1 mpg) and it carries the same number of people. If I buy a new vehicle I want it to do something better than what I have. I wasn't feeling the GM Love.. and now with the taxpayers owning it... I'm NOT feelin' the love. You'll see my old silver van clunking down 95 with my DVC bumper sticker and Stitch magnet on the side, and my UMD Va tags... that'll be me!
Funny story.(but it wasnt funny at the time).. last time we drove to Disney, DS kept blowing fuses with the inverted that he had plugged his Playstation 2 into. So we stop in this McD's parking lot to see if we could figure out which fuse it was. So DH opens up the hood, and finds a fuse box. He randomly grabs a fuse and pulls it out.... and drops it into the engine!! We spent a good amount of time trying to retrieve it. Then it turns out, the fuse box that the correct fuse was in, was INSIDE the van.. not in the engine. So then, he finds an extra fuse, and puts it in where he dropped fuse went, and it turns out that was the fuse he needed to fix what had blown. So then we had to find a auto parts store. Luckily, the McD's we were in, had a Sears on the other side of the mall from us. We went in, bought a whole box of fuses and were on our way. This time, we're bringing all kinds of fuses, a tire repair kit, and anything else we can fit. We once blew a headlight at 9:00pm on Christmas eve in the middle of nowhere on the way to MD from TX. Luckily there was a Walmart in sight that had the right headlight in stock!!
Pray for good Car-ma!!

My van has a VHS tape player in it. But its ok. I have 105 kids VHS videos... probably more than 1/3rd of them Disney. I get to drive to Disney estimating the amount of gas in my tank because GM can't figure out how to fix the gas indicator. They replaced the sending unit twice. Its more like a spending unit now. But I REFUSE to get a new vehicle just cause the Obama admin. wants me to!! There's been talk of forcing people to retire their old gas guzzling trucks!! NO WAY!! Besides, last time we exited Test Track, we went into the new car showroom they have there. We looked at a Traverse. It was tempting... but it doesn't really get better gas mileage than my van (1 mpg) and it carries the same number of people. If I buy a new vehicle I want it to do something better than what I have. I wasn't feeling the GM Love.. and now with the taxpayers owning it... I'm NOT feelin' the love. You'll see my old silver van clunking down 95 with my DVC bumper sticker and Stitch magnet on the side, and my UMD Va tags... that'll be me!
Funny story.(but it wasnt funny at the time).. last time we drove to Disney, DS kept blowing fuses with the inverted that he had plugged his Playstation 2 into. So we stop in this McD's parking lot to see if we could figure out which fuse it was. So DH opens up the hood, and finds a fuse box. He randomly grabs a fuse and pulls it out.... and drops it into the engine!! We spent a good amount of time trying to retrieve it. Then it turns out, the fuse box that the correct fuse was in, was INSIDE the van.. not in the engine. So then, he finds an extra fuse, and puts it in where he dropped fuse went, and it turns out that was the fuse he needed to fix what had blown. So then we had to find a auto parts store. Luckily, the McD's we were in, had a Sears on the other side of the mall from us. We went in, bought a whole box of fuses and were on our way. This time, we're bringing all kinds of fuses, a tire repair kit, and anything else we can fit. We once blew a headlight at 9:00pm on Christmas eve in the middle of nowhere on the way to MD from TX. Luckily there was a Walmart in sight that had the right headlight in stock!!
Pray for good Car-ma!!
