An On Going Journey In Texas

Ina said:
Today I am in prayer mode. A friend to many of us, Happyflowerlady, is sitting in a waiting room as her youngest son is right now in surgery having a triple heart bypass. Please, will each and every one of you pray for her and her son.
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Give HFL, my best wishes for her son to pull through safely and on to a speedy recovery.
 
Ok friends, I need your advice. I told ya'll about my 2015 KIA Sportage catching fire on me last week. Well they said they were going to have "specialist check it out to see why it caught fire under my car. Well yesterday I got a call of some office up north, and they said after the investigation they would fix it and return it to me. I explained that I didn't want that particular car back. I think another Kia Sportage would be fine, but not the one that caught fire. I wouldn't ever feel safe in it again. Someone told me to call a lawyer, but who, I can't afford to put out the kind of money lawyers ask for.

What should I do?
 
I would let my last conversation with the company be that I will be consulting with a lawyer and any other communications should be in writing, meaning if they will be replacing the car you want it in writing, you want the terms in writing and anything you agree to in the future in writing. There are often lawyers who will give you a consult for free and you can go from there just on there advice, but, it would be wise to have a legal ear hear you out just in case.


I don't know how good or quick you'll get an answer on these sites, but, you could give them a try, though, I would really look through my local directory to see who gives free consults.

https://www.lawzam.com/

http://ask-a-lawyer.freeadvice.com/law-questions/
 
Well, what was the reason for it catching on fire? First of all, cars just don't catch on fire. If they did, we would see more of them sitting along burned from the inside out. Where on the car did the fire start and what was the cause. After you learn that information, then you can go to step 2.
 
911, the fire left about a 7 inch hole just in front of the gear shift between the two front seats. I smelled something, but I thought it was just the polution of Houston,Texas. Shortly after I noticed a wisp of smoke. So I stop the 2015 Kia Sportage in the road. ( no shoulders to pull over to), I touched the smoking spot, and my finger went through it? Then fire started coming up into the inside of my car. I jumped into the back of my car where I keep several bottles of water. I also used those round containers of Lysol wet one to wrap my hands in, and between pouring water and slapping at the fire, I was able to put the fire out. I then drove 15 miles to my doctor to treat my minor burns, and then another 32 miles to my dealership. They had me in a 2016 KIA Sorento in less than 30 minutes and off their property. They said they had never seen that before, and a special inspector would be coming to check the car out. I have recieved a call from 'up North' telling me that if they fixed it I had to take that car back. when I purchased the car I bought extended five tear warranty over the the five they nomally offer.

I guess I should have left the car to burn, but I thought I should at least try to put it ut.
 
Ina, I give you a lot of credit for driving that beast after it caught fire.

I would have left it smoldering in front of the dealership. :mad:

Just glad you're safe and sound.
 
Hi Sifu, sometimes I think I've lost my brains. I seem to act before I think things through lately. Last month I held a thief, (that has been stealing me blind in the last year), at gun point untill the police finally came to arrest him. I think I might be a bit ticked off at a lot of things, but I'm not sure why.

For those that worry about guns, I've been using them since I was a child, and I've had a lisence since I was first bonded as a courier in my early twenties. And I practice at a range every two months. So yes, I'm a responsible gun owner.
 
Ina, I don't worry in the least about you being armed. I would welcome you at my six any time! I can't speak for you of course, but part of my processing extreme changes/losses in my life has been anger---sometimes a lot of it. It eases in time. Part of my grieving process.
 
Thank you Shalimar, it just that most of my life, I've had to keep a calm attitude concerning the ups and downs of life, so my family would see that anger and violence were not the answer to most of their obstacles in their lives.

I don't like this angry side that I've developed lately, but I can deal with it easier than all the tears.
 
Ina said:
Hi Sifu, sometimes I think I've lost my brains. I seem to act before I think things through lately.
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Lately?

You lucky gal! I've been like that most of my life - it explains that tattoo of Tinkerbell I have on my forehead ...


Last month I held a thief, (that has been stealing me blind in the last year), at gun point untill the police finally came to arrest him. I think I might be a bit ticked off at a lot of things, but I'm not sure why.
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Well, you know me - I'm quite hawkish when it comes to self-defense, so I loudly applaud your actions.

For those that worry about guns, I've been using them since I was a child, and I've had a lisence since I was first bonded as a courier in my early twenties. And I practice at a range every two months. So yes, I'm a responsible gun owner.
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Gun control means using both hands! ;)
 
Ina said:
... I don't like this angry side that I've developed lately, but I can deal with it easier than all the tears.
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Perhaps we have to go through both sides in order to come out as balanced individuals?

I started life as a warm, caring, emotional person. I later developed a stone gargoyle approach to life for many years.

I've used anger as a tool - focusing it in the right direction at the right time.

These days, for various reasons, the gargoyle is slowly being chipped away once again.

Yin and Yang.
 
Sifu you are still a young man, and you still have much to explore, so try to fight your recent health issue that seem to be dragging you down. You have one of the most uplifting attitudes, and you have given me laughter to replace many of my tears in the last couple of years. So it might take some time, but I believe your natural ability to see the good or humorus side of things will return to you. Arrrggg my friendly pirate.

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LOL@ the pirate stuff. These days, unfortunately, I've had to combine the 12k Peg Leg Race with the Wench Chasing -

"Wait! - *stump* - I just - *stump* - want to - *stump* - buy ye - *stump* - some rum!"

They usually lose me at the 3rd hole of the golf course.

Thank you for your kind words *sniff*
 
The true meaning behind the pirate stuff...read Keith Richards " Life". A life well lived...some events were totally ****** up. But others he would do again in a heartbeat...****** Keef immortal. Works for me, I've made mistakes and I could be bitter, but I have a dark sense of humor. So some of it I would do again, yep. Pat yourself on the back son...we lived through it.
Do you look younger?


Yeah that's what I thought...we're okay.
 
Doesn't Keith rely more upon yearly blood transfusions for his immortality?

He could use some Botox as well ...

But yes, there are many bad things that I've done that I would do again, in a heart-beat. Sometimes bad just feels so good!
 
Certainly, the bad things are far more memorable. Hence, they're probably better utilized as object lessons.

Except for that time I got drunk and painted "KICK ME" on that cow ...
 
I have become a legend in my own family it seems.

Last Monday, one of my granddaughters called to say she and her husband had broke up, and that she and the two boys, (5&7), were being asked to leave her MIL's house. Needless to say I picked her mother up, and we were headed for Phoenix, AZ by noon on Tuesday. So on the way back, in my loaner KIA Sorento, packed with my step-daughter, granddaughter, two boys, and old cat, and of course my dog Izzy and myself, I was trapped with all the questions I had hoped to never hear. I drove that trip in 46 hours, and that included stoping at restaurants, a million potty breaks, and gas tank fill ups.

As I am the great-grandmother, I am known as Grams, (the nickname comes from my hippy days). So all the way back to Dayton, Texas I heard, "Grams did you really", questions:tapfoot::tapfoot:. Did you really blow a hole in the living room floor? Did you really dig a cave under the house, and it sank in the middle when it rained? Did you really run away from home 4 times? Did you really steal a police car when you were 11? And that went on and on until I thought I was going to strangle someone, but I realized that person would be myself. I didn't know my family knew so much about my youth.

Within an hour after I dropped my tormentors off, I got another call saying my granddaughter had change her mind and want to go back home. I said NO.
 
Well I survived the holidays. Thanksgiving I spent taking my half-brother from the VA hospital to his home some 85 miles away, and getting him settled in. Two days before Christmas, after recieving a distress call from a granddaughter in Glendale AZ, I drove a 2350 mile round trip there and back in 46 hours to bring her and 5 and 7 year old boys to her mother's home. New years I just hid.

Today I went to the VA hospital for the background check, and next Wednesday, I go for orientation, fingerprinting, and getting my VA ID. I will start with chapel duty so I can begin meeting the permanent residents and my volunteer coworkers. They also want me to work in the art unit, and then in a couple of months I will start working for the NVDA unit, (No Vetran Dies Alone), which is my main goal.

We also talked of me implimenting a Kindle Fire program that will give the residents a way of communicating online with their surrounding world. The plan is to get rehabbed tablets, and I already have a few people willing to help me fund the program.

But of course there is a lot of red tape with the VA for approval, and they have to come up with an online system for the residents that doesb't involve the hospital''s network.

Am I happy? No, but I'm getting good at faking it. :yoda::darth::waiting:
 

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