answered prayer

i've not got a lot of time, but here's what-

answered prayer is so cool. so ever since I hit kc (2 weeks ago now) my car I drive (my 2000 white crown victoria- actually my dad's, but I drive it now) had a few things going on. firstly, I parked it in the umkc parking structure by oak street. I parked in a problematic spot: rust from the parking garage hit my car with precipitation, so basically I had rust and salt painted on its rear end. not cool. It was not pretty. I did a sloppy job mopping off the salt with a squeegee at QT, but the rusty coloring remained.
then, a few days later, the check engine soon light came on, and the engine didn't feel right. I just had this feeling that its engine was not running as smoothly as it used to. the short story is, I got its oil changed and got ripped off (according to himanshu) and spent a lot more money on it than I expected to, which I was a bit disappointed about...because some other stuff was due to be changed. Basically, I had no clue what needed to happen, and I felt like such a tool when I told them to do it...even though I knew they were probably telling me that I needed stuff I didn't. but I was in a pinch, and I didn't know what else to do.
sad thing was, even after that, the check engine light was still on. It was a really disappointing situation, and at this point I was resigned to losing that vestige of freedom for perhaps weeks while it was tinkered about at some dealership.

anyway, so today, as I was driving back from a very long study session, the check engine light failed to light up. And I revved the engine. it was juicing sweetly. my guess is that all that old oil had to run through the engine before the new stuff came in, but I know close to nothing about cars, but...yeah. that makes me really excited/happy/thankful. hip hip!

ooh, and I forgot to say. someone told me that if I rubbed a gasoline-soaked rag on the rusty-colored spots, it would go away--and it did!! :)