Manic Monday

This past weekend was WONDERFUL! It was just one of those weekends when everyone was happy and ready to play. There will be a post wrapping up the weekend shortly. I had to mention the weekend to help explain Monday.

MonDAY was great the evening nooooot so much. Those who live in Maryland know how badly it rained here throughout the day. The girls and I stayed in, and Chris went to work. It was just a normal day. No clue what was coming!

Chris and I were talking on the phone while he was on way to school (we do this everyday). There was terrible traffic so he got off the major hwy and went a back way. Because of the traffic he was running a little late to school but not too bad. So as we were talking out of nowhere he becomes very panicked. So of course I become panicked and start asking him what happened. I though he had gotten into an accident.

Nope not an accident his brakes went out. By out I mean he pushed the pedal to the floor and NOTHING happened. He was able to get to the shoulder of the road before he hit anything and rolled to a stop. After a few minutes he decided it was worth the chance to very slowly drive the car to the gas station just a few blocks up. He did make it there. He took off all the wheels and didn't see anything missing. A mechanic passing by asked if he could help and he looked at Chris's brake fluid and told him he was out. Thankfully the gas station where he was stopped has when he needed. He put it in and tried to get it to work and it did for about 1.2 secs then he realized that his car was now sitting in a puddle of brake fluid. WAHOO! Why not?!

Long LONG wet story short... he had the car towed home, missed class and because of the time he finally made it home he didn't get to see the girls. Pretty craptastic day!

The good news ifsthat Chris's Dad knows a few (thousand :-) things about cars and is willing to help Chris figure out exactly what is wrong and get it fixed. Until then we will have to practice what we preach to the girls and share (yuck ;-) the van.