{"id":88358,"date":"2024-04-04T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88358"},"modified":"2024-04-03T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:37:43","slug":"i-feel-you-sarge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/i-feel-you-sarge\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel you, Sarge …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had to take my 2006 Toyota Tacoma in to the shop on Monday because the power steering had clearly gone … turning the wheel had become an unpleasant “armstrong ungeared” experience. The initial estimate was over $5000 to fix, as it was quite an involved repair, but I swallowed hard and signed the estimate. I got a call from the shop early Wednesday afternoon, but it wasn’t the cheery “the work’s done” message I was expecting, but a much more depressing “the truck’s frame is rotted and the vehicle is probably not roadworthy”. <\/p>\n

The initial $5000+ estimate was already going to rip the bottom out of my financial plans for the year, and there’s no chance of finding a replacement for anything even close to that price, so I’m without a personal vehicle for the first time in nearly 40 years (fortunately, Elizabeth will let me borrow her RAV4 whenever she doesn’t need it, so I’m not a permanent pedestrian).<\/p>\n

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After we took delivery of the truck on Halloween, 2005, we took a drive up to the southern reaches of Algonquin Park where I took a few photos of the new vehicle. It would rarely be this shiny again.
Honestly, this was an April Fool’s joke I never saw coming.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to take my 2006 Toyota Tacoma in to the shop on Monday because the power steering had clearly gone … turning the wheel had become an unpleasant “armstrong ungeared” experience. The initial estimate was over $5000 to fix, as it was quite an involved repair, but I swallowed hard and signed the estimate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[849],"tags":[111,499],"class_list":["post-88358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-cars","tag-toyota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mZ8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88362,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88358\/revisions\/88362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}