We have the best mechanic ever. If anyone in the Baltimore area is looking for a mechanic, let us know. We stumbled on ours (who is the owner of our closest gas station) soon after moving in when we had a problem with the purple car that made us scared to drive it any further than the half mile down the road. When he tested it and took the time to explain the details of why what we thought was a problem actually wasn’t, and all for FREE, we knew we had a winner. We trust this mechanic so much that we felt comfortable going in last year and saying of the silver car, “The tires are over 5 years old, so probably need to be replaced, but we aren’t sure if we need 2 or 4 new ones—do whatever you think is best.” And, being the amazing guy he is, we picked Katia up with 2 new tires. Seriously, who voluntarily makes less money than they have been given permission to?
Even though Carmax has a pretty good reputation, we knew we’d feel better if we had our mechanic take a look at the Accord and just make sure there was nothing wrong with it. He wasn’t in last Friday, so we took it in this morning. We just picked it up (with a perfectly clean bill of health—yay!) and the charge? $0!!!! I think that was a special favor to us, either because he felt bad about the Civic being stolen or because we lost our discount card with the car, but still.
Between the car being stolen and dealing with the insurance company and car dealers, it is so easy to get jaded, but there have also been so many reminders in the past week that most people are good. From all the offers of help from friends and family to our awesome mechanic, I feel very lucky.
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