Shiny Little Stratus

Hey there SLR-ers!
Today we have a short lesson on auto mechanics from blogger Yourie.
Beware of the flat tire, it may lead to the most annoying complicated things in your life. I believe a very good example for working on your car is the childrens book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...." it's like this, you have a flat tire so you take it to get fixed, the man at the place says "Your car is screwed up, because it wore off the inside of your tire." So you tell your dad who decides you need new struts, so bam! He gets them and next thing you know your car is all jacked up and going to be that way for awile. Off comes the first tire and the strut but what do you know there is a bad ball joint plus a bad tie rod end. After replace replace, you think you are getting somewhere then you head over to side number two, and what to you know the bottom bolt of the strut is completly rusted stuck. So after trying everything your dad can think of (including dragon slobber, Thor's Hammer, and waiting till the moon was directly over head and shooting a silver bullet at it) you saw and pound it away, then put new one in. Now your thinking its close so you take it to be aligned and inspected since while all these fun things were going on it's license expired. The auto place calmly inform you that you owe them $$$ for them telling you it cannot be aligned, oh and while they're at it they "fix" your doors AKA make them open good, but now they won't shut. At this point your like what the crap I'll just change the oil and call it good, so you get oil and filter only problem is in a moment of ditzy-ness you forget if its a 4-cylinder or a 6 and naturally once you have drained all the oil out you realise your mistake, and must beg your dad to pick you up the right one. Finally that is all done, you lower it to the ground, and try to start it but guess what? it is stone dead!!! In severe anger you hook up the charger and stamp back home. Morning has broken and it still does not live. Later your beloved dad picks you up a new battery and it is resurrected at last! so......(and I know by now my dear reader you are quite bored, but I assure you this is the condensed version!!!) after your genius dad tries this idea of shifting your strut bolts on the top it is mostly aligned, then you fix some misc. broken wires on the bottom of car and wow wow wow it drives!
I can only say that if anything else breaks don't expect a part 2 because blogger Yourie will have commited suicide by either shooting herself in the heart with a silver bullet or by driving her car off a cliff whilst shouting "curse you horseless carraiges! curse you!
Yourie