When I turned 16, for my birthday my parents bought me a 2007 jet black toyota corolla. Oh how I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. I have loved this car since I got it, but I seem to have the worst luck in it. Since the softball season was over, I was in athletics for 7th period. The last day of my sophomore year, I was supposed to be meeting my best friend at SnoBiz after I got out of school. At the beginning of 7th period m y principal told me and a few friends we could go ahead and leave since it was our last day. All xcited that I was done with school, I flew outta the parking lot going way to fast and of course, the gravel took a hold of my tires and under the change linked fence I went. I actually think I went over it, threw it, under it and anythiing else you can think of. When I finally decided to come to my senses and put my foot on the brake and not the gas, I stopped. I got out and looked at my once beautiful car. It looked like it had gotten in a fight with a tiger, and lost. It had scratches on the hood, on the top, on the trunk, and on both sides. I was devastated. Luckily my brother was home, so I called him and told him what happened and that he needed to come get me. Well after my parents got home, I had to take my poor car to the shop to see what could and couldn't be fixed. Later that week, I had to take it to the insurance company to get a estimate of how much they would be covering. The first week of summer I was without a car, that was not a way I wanted to staart off my summer. My car took quite a beating, but after a week it was almost as good as new. But there is still one scratch going down the driver side door that they couldn't buff out. Well after the fence and car were payed for, I was very careful when I was driving.
The summer of my junior year, I was working at the front desk at The Tire Center. One day I was running as few errands for my boss, and right in the middle of the intersection, my car shuts off. Freaking out, I called my boss and told him what was wrong. I finally got it to start up again, and I made it safelt made it back to work. The day it did the same thing, so I got the boys at work to look at it and nothing looked messed up or out of place. After shutting off on me a few more times, I took it to Mark's Service Center, where my car always goes when I mess it up, and got them to look at it. They ended up having to send it off to Toyota in Montgomery, where they found that the computer senser had gone out. After another week without my car, I finally got it back. Dad was a little mad about having to pay for it, but this time it wasn'y my fault.
About a year after that, April 27 of this year to be exact, we got out of school around 12:30 because of bad weather. My bestfriend and I always pull out of the school at the same time but she always goes first. Well that day, I decided that I was going to go first. Not even a mile after I pulled out, I heard something hit my car. I kept hearing this loud thumping noise so I pulled into a gas station.. my tire was flat. My best friend called me and asked what happened because she saw me pull into a gas station that I never go to and she asked if I needed her to come pick me up. Thinking my tire wasn't all that bad, I said no and continued to drive my car home because my house was not but a few miles down the road. The noise kept getting louder and louder, so I decided to pull into the next gas station, which was right next to The Tire Center so I figured my old boss could fix it real quick and I could get out of there since the weather was getting pretty bad. They close at noon on Wednesday's and I had forgotten them closing early. After I discovered they were closed, I called my bestfriend and she came back to get me and took me to Mark's Service Center. I talked to the man who always works on my car and he sent his tower to go and get it. Since I rode on it so long, they ended up having to order a new tire and a new wheel from toyota. A few days later, I finally got it back.
I do love my car, but it has given me the worst luck.. hopefully I won't have any more major trouble with it.
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