I can't begin to describe my day. Our house has three people working. None of us can find full time work. There is one vehicle. Only one person works outside of the home and the rest of us are remote workers. We live rurally. With all three of us working and trolling our work places for hours we average $1800 a month to live on. You read that correctly, $1800 a month with three people working. I have the least hours, so my job is to take care of everyone else when I am not at work.

I share with two other people a 2013 Chevy Silverado. It is a necessity since we have a small farmlette, heat with wood, have animals that need 50 pound sacks of feed on occasion, etc. It is the only vehicle and suddenly today the stick shift goes floppy. Found out the bushing on the transmission cable basically is shot. Had to walk quite a few miles to just find that out and to find out it would probably cost north of $200 to get fixed nearer to $300. I was livid. So soaking wet and tired from walking all over town, I got a reprieve in the form of a kind elderly neighbor that gave me a ride home.

Thankfully, when I got home I found out the part that needs replaced is only $8 and available on Amazon so it can be delivered. I wish I knew that ahead of time! I'm just still ticked off that the local dealership would charge almost $300 (probably $300 with tax) for such a mall part. I get that time is money! According to youtube though, it's an hour max to fix. Luckily we have someone good with cars that will be working on it next week for free after we get the part. What would we do thought without that person willing to help out! Town is easily ten miles with nothing in between except cows and dirt roads.