Weekend fun at the Kraft house
Have you ever behind a car that started to shoot flames out the back of it?
Have you ever been driving behind a car that is on fire with your husband in it with a full five gallon gas can sitting beside him.
Sound scary. Guess what….It was!
You see, my husband and I each have a sports car, like the kind that only four people fit in. With a family five we decided we needed something we ALL could fit into. We bought a van, it broke, my mother-in law wanted it, bought it, fixed it, we bought it back and then it caught fire.
Never a dull moment in the Kraft household!
So we get the van back and it is loud and needs a muffler. We ignore that for a few months and in doing so, the beast started smoking.
“We better get that looked at” we say and decide to drive it the 30 minutes to the mechanics house in Pittfield.
The kids and I are behind Daddy in the beast and then I see flames. Of course my husband can’t hear me over the muffler and my lights don’t blink so well in the middle of the day so I speed up and wave out my window. He pulls over gets out and yup…no more fire. So of course my hubby thinks I am over reacting and ignores my pleas for him to give me the gas can because his vehicle is on fire. “Relax honey, its ok, there really is no gas in it, it probably sparks” he tells me. HA! He didn’t see what I did. “Don’t look now kids daddy is on fire” that’s all I could imagine.
So three more times flames shoot out of the back of the vehicle meanwhile my hubby drives along not realizing how bad its getting. I throw on my 4-ways every time I see flames but he still peddles along ….On fire.
We get about 200 feet from the mechanic, stop for a stop sign and yup you guessed it……The fire gets worse, we pull down the driveway and Nick gets out of the van. Meanwhile I scream at him because as he turned off the engine the fire continued to worsen! He turns around..”SH&*, it really is on fire” he says.. UMMMMM YEAH!
So long story short, the van burned until I could get to his parents next door and get a fire extinguisher, the tires burned along with everything else underneath the beast and will now get towed to the junk yard! We have no luck with used vehicles…I honestly could write a book about the luck we simply do not have when it comes to used cars! It seems every time we get one we end up stranded in a town in the middle of nowhere on a Sunday an hour from our destination at the only exit with a payphone and half a gas station with a bunch of people who have no teeth, are holding pitch forks and just so happen are not so fond of the northerners.
I will have to agree that was the most nerve racking day of my life. Thank goodness my husband is a cheap skate and decided he would only put the bare min. of gas in the van in case it dies along the way! Since the gas tank was also on fire!
So what did you do for fun this weekend?
