Highway troubles

Tonight, my husband actually left work early! 6 p.m.! Unfortunately, he had a problem on the highway.

Mind you, my husband, Chris , is a driving disaster. He always manages to get a flat tire, or something or other. He drives 45 minutes to and from work in his 1992 Toyota that we bought 3 years ago for $650, so its really a blessing that nothing had happened major up until this point.

Like I said, he left at 6, except I didn't know he was leaving early, so when the phone rang at 7:25, I'd assumed he was just leaving work.

He wants me to pick him up. Says he'll go into detail when I get there, but he left me hanging with the lonely fact that the fire department had to be called!!!

I finally get to where he is..a towing garage. He explains to me what happened.

He's driving along, smooth as can be, and hears a loud pop. He thought for sure he had blown another tire, until he looked in his rearview mirror and couldn't see past the smoke! He immediately pulled over, and through his window people were slowing down telling him his car was on fire!! No one even stopped to help him out, but he did get someone to call 911. I guess at this point there were flames shooting out from under the hood, and when a state police officer got there the fire was able to be put out with a fire extinguisher! The fire department showed up a minute later to finish putting it out, and Chris was told that if the officer hadn't gotten there when he had, the entire car would have been engulfed in flames!

He's so lucky. It was such a scary story to hear from my husband, and I'm so glad he's okay!

Now, somehow we need to find the money to get him another car! We can't afford payments, and to be totally honest, I'm not sure if we'd get a loan anyway, with our credit. But we'll figure something out. I'm just glad my husband is safe!