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Update: The Kent Car Curse

Posted: September 12, 2015 in Main Posts
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Since this last post, I have to report about what has happened. I know most of you don’t think that this curse has any merit, but I kid you not . . . after that post, this all happened within at least a week’s time frame.

My parents went to Boise to visit my oldest sister and her family, and wouldn’t you know it . . . their radiator went out! They had to leave their car in Boise and borrow a car to get back home.

Face PalmWithin three days of my parents car “exploding,” that same sister and her husband were on their way back to Minnesota to a family funeral, their radiator went out about an hour and half into their road trip. They had to wait for a tow truck, and then they had to wait for another truck to come and pick them up! Their family all couldn’t fit in the first tow truck. Needless to say, they made it to their destination safely after renting a car.
Within six days of my parent’s radiator blowing up, and three days within the oldest sisters’ care exploding, my middle sister called me and informed me that their brand-new car had a bad transmission! Not only did their transmission have to be replaced (in a brand-new car), but the dealership had never seen anything like this happen with that new of a car, or with that particular brand (Nissan Pathfinder).

And to top it all off, my dad’s farming equipment went out too! And let me tell you, you just don’t go buy a new combine! They retail (used) at $250,000. So he has had to wait for scrap parts so he can fix the combine and complete the harvest for this year.

I know some of you were completely skeptical about my post and just thinking that it was just a run of bad luck. IT WASN’T! I have other stories to plead my case, but now you truly have the proof you need. The Kent Family is CURSED!

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Bad Luck: The Kent Car Curse

Posted: August 19, 2015 in Main Posts
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Do you ever feel like you have one element of your life that attracts every possible wrong outcome? For instance, say you bite your cheek in the morning and then all day after that first bite, you continue to bite your cheek in the same spot making it more swollen and “hurty” for the rest of the day!

I have something in my life that is exactly like biting your cheek consistently throughout the day. I attract flying objects into my windshield. I know you are all thinking bugs; but that is so not the case! I attract all sorts of flying debris. For instance, I was driving home from work one day (recently) and something flew into my windshield. The car in front of me lost a lugnut off one of their tires and it SMASHED right into my windshield. I may have screamed a little when it hit, since it was a nice loud crash. We were going about 75mph too, so you can imagine the heart-pounding, adrenaline inducing panic that I went in to. That clinched me needing to get a new windshield. I had been debating for some time, since mine was all cracked across, but a nice spiral fracture pretty much determined what needed to be. So, I got myself a new windshield. And of course this had to happen right when I had just purchased four new tires! Nothing like seeing your paycheck disappear to unexpected costs. That was fun.

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IMG_0991So I had my nice new windshield for a total of four days, and wouldn’t you know, a street-sweeper decided to empty out his collection bin right in front of me. We were traveling 50 mph. Rocks, debris, and dirt cascaded out of the machine and it all hit my nice new windshield! The impact caused some small chips to appear but nothing too serious. That is just my luck!

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The story gets better. So remember how I mentioned I just got a new windshield and four new tires, my radiator went out the exact day I got my tires replaced, which was about three days after the new windshield! So, within a week’s time frame, I had to spend my entire paycheck and then some to take care of my car. (Her name is Betsy, p.s. by-the-way.)

A few days ago, I had another rock hit my windshield, and this one did damage.

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There was no way of getting around it. There was a massive chip in my nice, new windshield. I guess, I at least made it a whole month before some serious damage happened. Thankfully I have free chip repair on my windshield now thanks to TechnaGlass. I went there to get my new windshield because I saw their free rock-chip repair when you purchase a new windshield from them, and let’s face it, the above incidents are enough to make sure I get all the coverage I need.  Moral of this long rant…Don’t Ever Let me Drive Your Car…Your windshield will come back damaged.

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