Sally Shifter

This is the name of my gear shift in my car. Why did I name my gear shift, you ask! Well, she cost me almost $500 last week, so I figured she deserved a name. She actually cost me more than Madelyn, so I guess I became the mom of three last week. She weighed in at 9 oz. and was 7 inches long. She's silver and black and quite the prissy little thang!! Here is the story of how we got her.

Last Saturday, we were coming home from the gym and David went to put the car in park and there was a CD kind of in the way. As he put it into park, he ran into some resistance from the CD, but it still went in. We didn't think anything of it until a little while later when I went to leave with the girls. I turned on the car and went to put it in reverse. I couldn't get the gear shift to move at all. The button wouldn't even push in. I hollered at David to come out and look at it. He messed with a little while, but still couldn't get it. He finally took off the handle and realized the stick that was sticking up was what was jammed. He took some pliers to hold the stick and very lightly tapped the stick with a hammer. Voila!! The stick returned to its rightful place and the shifter moved again. Alas.....it wasn't that easy! I then noticed that the gear shift would shift through all gears without needing to push the brake in first. NOT GOOD!! We finally decided we needed to have someone look at it and I decided to take David's car instead. I went to pull my keys out of the ignition and they wouldn't come out. Arrgghh!!! So, basically we disabled the safety feature of the brake and enabled the key safety feature. I didn't feel very safe at that moment thought. I felt very screwed!! Because I couldn't get the key out of the ignition, David had to disable the battery or we would have had to add that to the list to fix. On Monday, he took my car to be fixed and I was praying incessantly to God that it wouldn't be that expensive to fix...maybe $100. Yeah, I know....I live in dreamland! David called me and told me it would be $465 to fix. I immediately started bawling and was P.O.'d. We had no other choice, but to fix it. I was mad at God for about 2.3 seconds, but quickly came back to reality and praised him for being in control and that he wouldn't forsake us. Don't we have an Awesome God?

So, that is how we got Sally May Shifter. It's been quite a transition, but we will be taking visitors soon! I've got to go now, she's crying for some attention!!