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ute4ever · 08-15-2008, 11:22 PM

I was invited to visit a friend in Dallas for a couple of days, to ponder and get my mind off of things. Decided to go home through Oklahoma City, to see the temple there. While heading east on the 40, right before the off-ramp for a tiny town named Checotah, my engine light came on and my car stopped accelerating. Trying to restart the engine, listening to it groan, it sounds like a timing belt, although I just replaced the timing belt last November. Camry with 102,000 miles.

I am completely at the mercy of the honesty of the mechanics at the Toyota dealership, who will look at it in the morning. In the meantime, I am at the only hotel in town, a cockroach motel called the Royal Inn. $55 per night. The mattress is a sinkhole.

I could be here for several nights.

When it rains it pours.

08-15-2008, 11:22 PM	#1
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	I've broken down in Checotah I was invited to visit a friend in Dallas for a couple of days, to ponder and get my mind off of things. Decided to go home through Oklahoma City, to see the temple there. While heading east on the 40, right before the off-ramp for a tiny town named Checotah, my engine light came on and my car stopped accelerating. Trying to restart the engine, listening to it groan, it sounds like a timing belt, although I just replaced the timing belt last November. Camry with 102,000 miles. I am completely at the mercy of the honesty of the mechanics at the Toyota dealership, who will look at it in the morning. In the meantime, I am at the only hotel in town, a cockroach motel called the Royal Inn. $55 per night. The mattress is a sinkhole. I could be here for several nights. When it rains it pours.