Sometimes affluence sucks

[jhetley]

Okay, by world averages we're rich Americans. We have two cars. Two _old_ cars, a '95 and a '97, but sometimes Wife and I need to be in different places at the same time. One of the unsung joys of the self-employed architect's life is the occasional need to visit a job site in East Overshoe, Maine on a snowy day in February.

So now my car needs an new exhaust system. Friday afternoon (too late for service, of course), strange and truculent noises began to emerge from underneath. That's a few hundred dollars we'll never see again. And the new system will probably outlive the car, judging by rust scabs showing along the door edges...