blech

what a couple of days... well really, what a night last night. Yesterday i took a 'mental health' day for our annual Nik girls shopping day with my mom and sis. We were very productive (and by productive I mean we helped the economy :) ) and it was a great day... went home to my parents, had homemade spaghetti & meatballs, then hit the road around 8 thinking I would be at my house by 10.- yeah try 12:30 am by the time the debacle was said and done.
So I am driving along down the Garden State Parkway, get off to get onto the NJ turnpike, and as I was getting to the end of the exit ramp, right before the Tpke toll booth, my car felt funny, wouldn't accelerate, and then lit up like a Christmas tree. We had the big red exclamation point in a triangle, the yellow exclamation point in parenthesis, the VSC light, and the check engine light. I also had the worlds most useless manual (ie: if the light is lit, it means the system isn't working- thanks, really).
Fortunately I was only 30 mins from my parents, so my dad hit the road to come get me. My H called for service. The stupid turnpike does not allow AAA on it- they have their own service which is $65 a tow. The guy shows up and says he only is contracted to take me off the road- not to a mechanic, so he would tow me to the Walmart parking lot, leave me there, and I could call AAA from that point. So I paid him an extra 100 bucks to not do that and take me to the dealer. Thankfully by the time we were ready to go my dad was there so we could follow my car to the dealership. We went there, left the car, called my H and my H started driving north, my dad south- so they could meet halfway and exchange me so I could make it home.
So today they call and say I ran out of gas... WHAT???? I filled my tank (granted only for $8.50, but I wasn't on empty- I was just topping it off before I drove) on sunday. Since I topped off the tank to the breakdown, I had only driven 140 miles. ummmm I drive a hybrid??? How could I have run out of gas? My fuel tank said 1/2 a tank when I brokedown. My car wouldn't get into gear but would only stay in park when i was broken down, my VSC light was on- how on earth is that from running out of gas. "well that is the only thing the computer picked up, we added fuel and drove it for 12 miles and it is fine".

??????????????? I am annoyed, pissed, want whatever is wrong with my car fixed- even if it is the gas gauge that is making me believe I have more gas, and I am scared to drive the 70 miles home that I need to drive to get my car from NJ to Philly.

rant over- i don't get it, and my H is being an idiot saying 'get it in writing"... if they say the transmission is fine, don't charge us, and then it breaks- wtf is having it in writing going to do? like we would bring it back to them anyway? and it wouldn't be covered b/c it wasn't a service we paid for? most mechanics try to 'fix' as much as possible to make some money- so if there was something else they could possibly do I imagine they would, but I don't get how I could have been out of gas if I had just filled up and my tank was registering about 1/2 tank. I also don't get how being out of gas could cause all the other stuff.

rant over. i was crying on the side of the road, i am almost in tears thinking about it, and i just want my car and am scared to go get it... fecking hormones and annoyances