Today I am thankful that I understand that we are responsible for our own safety. I'm having a single-mommy money crunch moment and am scrambling to find $4,600 $5,100. Long story short, I've been so lazy in the past 18 months, I've used the mechanic down the street for all of my car repairs. He's only two blocks away so it's easy for me to drop the car off and walk down the street to pick it up. Yes I'm stupid. I should have caught on when the water pump kept going out every six months. I'd take the car in, he'd do $500 worth of work and I'd pick my car only to have it die within a day. The second day, it would need $1,300 worth of repairs. I guess it takes three events for me to see a pattern. In January 2017, I had the car towed to the mechanic by my house. The water pump went out. Soon after the steering column needed repaired. In May, the car was leaking coolant, I took it in and the mechanic replaced