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To my family and friends
First, I need to apologize to everyone. I am so sorry that I’ve practically disappeared from everyone’s life and times since Dan passed away almost five years ago. When he went to heaven, I was strong for a while but these last few years, it became harder and harder for me to cope.
Life without him is incredibly lonely and heartbreaking. We were like peas and carrots. We were happy. We had a simple life. We had Dolly.
Its true that when two people fall in Love and get married, they become one person. When a death happens, you can literally feel like you can’t walk right, or see clear enough. Everything is blurry.
Our sons Kurt and Dan Jr told me that I needed to snap out of it. They said staying at home being sad, and doing little to nothing wasn’t healthy. I agreed.
Dan molded two amazing boys before he passed away. I’m so blessed and lucky.
People say that in life, we need to reinvent ourselves. So I decided to try and become a Lyft driver.
Almost three in a half years ago, my mom helped me finance and purchase a newer car by signing for me, and I was on my way to reinventing myself.
I needed to work to provide for myself and also thought that meeting new people could help me be social a little bit. Even though my passengers usually only stay in my car for a short period of time, it worked!
I absolutely LOVE being a Lyft driver. This job is so rewarding. People are for the most part so nice to me.
My work hours are strategic and purposeful. I usually drive from 3PM to 2-3AM six days a week. Yes, those nighttime hours can be dangerous but from my experience and after over 6000 rides under my belt, late at night is when drivers need to be ready and available for passengers needing a safe way home.
Almost 3 weeks ago, my faithful, hard working car, and after nearly 200,000 miles Lyfting everywhere in Southern California, my car engine gave up.
I’ve been going crazy trying to figure out what to do. I tried buying a newer car, but cannot afford the payment because I still need to continue paying for my current car. I actually bought an almost brand new car two weeks ago, and the next morning, I returned it to the dealership. I woke up knowing I made a mistake. After I bawled my eyes out trying to return the car, the manager agreed to cancel the deal. I was so grateful.
Car dealerships are asking so much money for new or used cars right now, and for me it’s impossible to finance two cars at once.
My only options now are to replace the engine in my current car which costs $7000+ and keep on trucking for as long as I can, or to find a way to raise enough funds to pay off my current loan to be free and clear to buy a newer car having only one car payment.
This is why I am in this situation of needing to ask for help through this Go Fund Me. I am so sorry to ask knowing that I’ve been away from social media for so long.
I hope everyone understands Love you all, Petty
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For anyone who would like more details to understand my debacle, here are some details below.
I still owe $19,000 on my current car, and it’s only worth $3000-$4000 as a trade-in, and the dealerships don’t want it and won’t pay it off and add the balance to a new loan because of the high balance.
They say it will go to auction if I traded it in, and only if I had the pink slip, which I don’t yet have, because I’m still paying on the loan. My car currently has 242,000 miles and the engine that we found to replace it has 69,000 miles on it. My car is a 2016 GMC Yukon XL.
I purchased it when it had 70,000 miles on it 3 1/2 years ago. I replaced the transmission when it reached 123,000 miles. That cost was $6000 total with two new motor mounts.
The mechanic who has my car right now said that the transmission is still fine. This was great news. Ever since I replaced the transmission two years ago, I’ve been driving my car very carefully, never testing its performance.
If anyone has questions, please let me know.
First, I need to apologize to everyone. I am so sorry that I’ve practically disappeared from everyone’s life and times since Dan passed away almost five years ago. When he went to heaven, I was strong for a while but these last few years, it became harder and harder for me to cope.
Life without him is incredibly lonely and heartbreaking. We were like peas and carrots. We were happy. We had a simple life. We had Dolly.
Its true that when two people fall in Love and get married, they become one person. When a death happens, you can literally feel like you can’t walk right, or see clear enough. Everything is blurry.
Our sons Kurt and Dan Jr told me that I needed to snap out of it. They said staying at home being sad, and doing little to nothing wasn’t healthy. I agreed.
Dan molded two amazing boys before he passed away. I’m so blessed and lucky.
People say that in life, we need to reinvent ourselves. So I decided to try and become a Lyft driver.
Almost three in a half years ago, my mom helped me finance and purchase a newer car by signing for me, and I was on my way to reinventing myself.
I needed to work to provide for myself and also thought that meeting new people could help me be social a little bit. Even though my passengers usually only stay in my car for a short period of time, it worked!
I absolutely LOVE being a Lyft driver. This job is so rewarding. People are for the most part so nice to me.
My work hours are strategic and purposeful. I usually drive from 3PM to 2-3AM six days a week. Yes, those nighttime hours can be dangerous but from my experience and after over 6000 rides under my belt, late at night is when drivers need to be ready and available for passengers needing a safe way home.
Almost 3 weeks ago, my faithful, hard working car, and after nearly 200,000 miles Lyfting everywhere in Southern California, my car engine gave up.
I’ve been going crazy trying to figure out what to do. I tried buying a newer car, but cannot afford the payment because I still need to continue paying for my current car. I actually bought an almost brand new car two weeks ago, and the next morning, I returned it to the dealership. I woke up knowing I made a mistake. After I bawled my eyes out trying to return the car, the manager agreed to cancel the deal. I was so grateful.
Car dealerships are asking so much money for new or used cars right now, and for me it’s impossible to finance two cars at once.
My only options now are to replace the engine in my current car which costs $7000+ and keep on trucking for as long as I can, or to find a way to raise enough funds to pay off my current loan to be free and clear to buy a newer car having only one car payment.
This is why I am in this situation of needing to ask for help through this Go Fund Me. I am so sorry to ask knowing that I’ve been away from social media for so long.
I hope everyone understands Love you all, Petty
*
For anyone who would like more details to understand my debacle, here are some details below.
I still owe $19,000 on my current car, and it’s only worth $3000-$4000 as a trade-in, and the dealerships don’t want it and won’t pay it off and add the balance to a new loan because of the high balance.
They say it will go to auction if I traded it in, and only if I had the pink slip, which I don’t yet have, because I’m still paying on the loan. My car currently has 242,000 miles and the engine that we found to replace it has 69,000 miles on it. My car is a 2016 GMC Yukon XL.
I purchased it when it had 70,000 miles on it 3 1/2 years ago. I replaced the transmission when it reached 123,000 miles. That cost was $6000 total with two new motor mounts.
The mechanic who has my car right now said that the transmission is still fine. This was great news. Ever since I replaced the transmission two years ago, I’ve been driving my car very carefully, never testing its performance.
If anyone has questions, please let me know.