This time of year we Gulf Coast residents check the tropics daily to see what depression might be threatening to become a tropical storm or hurricane. They are quiet right now. One depression is weakening. No storms? No so!
First of all, dangerous, oppressive, heat is bearing down on Texas and other places. While some are burning flood waters are churning. Folks are having record floods and rain. It is happening, not out in the gulf, but in our own backyards.
Do you remember the oil leaks in your life you were most concerned about? They were not in the Gulf and BP created. They were under your vehicle. An oil leak usually spelled trouble and lots of money to repair an engine. I remember carrying spare quarts of oil in the back of my old car for the engine and transmission. I knew the inevitable was coming.
A picture of our travel in life? I think so. As we get older the machine starts to develop problems. We hope to stave them off as best we can with pills and diet and exercise. Some of that will work for awhile, but we know the truth....there will be a major breakdown and the towing truck will put that old crate away.
What do we do? Order a NEW ONE before it happens. Pick out all the options. Make a down payment, then set back and enjoy each day this old vehicle decides to start and putter out in life.
