My hubby and I wanted to get a couple of beers right quick in town. It's about 7 miles to town from our house. So we are in town and the car just dies. It was dark and I was kind scared. He tried to get it started a few min by checking the fuses and stuff. But it didn't work so finally we walked to the nearest gas station. Which was around the block. Just my luck I wore slip on sandals:rolleyes: anyway we finally got a friend of ours to answer the phone. She brought us home where we got our other car and towed the dead car home. It's so good to be home :talk:

Have you guys ever been stranded? Doesn't it feel great when you get home? :D

:( Welcome home.:hug:

thx Dustbunny :D
believe me it feels great to be able to be here on Chit-Chat right now...

damn i would have had a freak attack cause im scared of the dark. :lol:

we were lucky that we broke down on that street and not the next one cause there were like 6 guys just hangin out on the next street and they looked kinda scary like a gang... :eek:
I have to say it again Im so happy to be home :D

I'm glad you both made it home safely!

The same thing has happened to me three times in the last 10 years, all three times while I was on the freeway. Luckily, it only happened once in the middle of the night when I was driving back into town.

I had a tire blow out on the interstate...on a damn off ramp. I was never so scared in my life. I waited a half hour for my dad to come rescue me. Fortunately it was about 1pm.

My car that caught fire was a pice of crapola (not that that needs to be said). In August I had to fly to California for work and I was on the interstate, nearly 1.5 hours away from the airport when the car just DIED. It was in a huge traffic jam due to road work and I had no way out of there. I was definitel on a time schedule because my flight left at 8:10. I called my best friend who raced to get me. She sat in the traffic for almost an hour and I BARELY made the flight....when you see people in movies running to their plane, like in Home Alone? That was my daughter and I.

It was hot, I had my 8 year old with me alone and we were stranded on the Interstate (I-80) alone with hundreds of cars sitting there in a traffic jam.

Very scary.

wow you guys know how it feels... Im glad that you guys are alright too. :D

2nd or 3rd week of nail school (in September) we got out at 9:30 pm and before then it was POURING and floods everywhere. Blah blah blah.. my car wouldnt start. Battery died. I have no cell phone (fun stuff) because Im cheapness. But anyways I reached my parents and they came at like.. 10:45. I stayed in the car with Julie until they came.

that's worse in the rain to be stranded or if it's really cold

This is why I always carry my cell with me.

well as fate would have it we had to cancell our cell phine a few days bafor this due to limited funds :rolleyes: but were safe now :lol:

I know what it is like to get stranded and I had to call a repair man/toll truck man to get me off the road!!

Sheesh, that sucks. Glad you made it home okay MonarC :)

I've gotten stranded - a few times actually. My car died last summer in the middle of a rainstorm - half an hour before my final exam... that wasn't fun. All of the phone lines were out because of the storm, but as luck would have it, my car was parked right in front of a Sprint store and the girls there let me use one of the display phones to call my mom - so she could drive over and wait for the toe-truck while I stole her car to go take a test... oh that was not a good day :rolleyes:

The scariest for me though was when I got stuck at Detroit Metro Airport coming back from Germany during the blackout - it was 3am my time and all the flights were cancelled. I got VERY lucky that my flight was reinstated (four hours later). It's not fun.

Just remembered another time - when my friend and I got lost coming back from a show in Detroit late at night. We were totally lost and didn't know what to do (we didn't want to pull up to a remote gas station, 2 teenage girls alone...) so actually my friend had a stroke of genius. We pulled up the side, went in together, and she said, "Our boyfriends are in the car and they're too MANLY to ask for directions." :lol: The guy never questioned it, and told us exactly where to go. It's a good line, girls, if you're ever stuck all alone ;)

Its a good thing you had someone with you, and you weren't by yourself.
I've been stranded a couple of times, but I always had my cell phone, gotta love cell phones.
I'm glad you guys made it home safe.

I hate to offend anybody but even thought people my age at 29 have them, I am one of the view that just can't stand cell phones. They cause car accidents, they are overused, they cost much more money, and they are just plain annoying!!