I really wanted to talk about when something goes wrong with our cars and the physcological effect it has on us to be at the Mercy of unscrupulous people who jack up the prices of repairs. I have even heard from many people that some mechanics actually BREAK stuff while they are repairing our cars to get us back in the shop for more repairs later.

I'm sure this must happen to men too but I think women really get the worst of this practice. I mean what do we know about what's going on under the hood or under the car?

My last stint of repairs, this past month totaled well over $1000. It started out with a broken brakeline. I did fall victim to someone who also, while under there broke the fuelline to the gas tank. It didn't end well. I ended up taking it, had it towed, to my regular guy and he fixed that and did some other repairs that needed doing. He fixed what the first guy did too. I actually stayed there and watched him. I asked him what he was doing and I found it facinating to see UNDER my car. It's really not all that complicated it's just that we women tend to believe whatever we are told needs fixing. But I wanted to actually SEE it.