What a stressful fucking morning... I hit a huge pothole in the dark last night (I stayed with my girlfriend at her friend's house last night while she watches her friend's cats), that suddenly developed out of seemingly nowhere, and it blew out the side wall of my tire. I ran my old spare to death a while back and haven't gotten a new one yet. So this morning I had to work it out and get home for work. I called the place I bought my tires at, hoping they'd have another, because I have road hazard coverage on these tires with them and they'd replace a substantial portion of the tire's cost for free (based on total wear off the tire thus far), but they couldn't get a suitable tire in for "at least 2 days" (my car has unusual wheel size). My girlfriend's car is in the shop so I don't have any other way to get around, so I found another tire place that had one that would work... the only one they had in was $145. I also had to get towed, and the only place I called that would be able to come in a timely manner I went with, forgot to ask them what it would cost. I got towed 6 miles, and they charged me $85 (85 fucking dollars for 6 miles of towing? What the fuck). Got the new tire on, drove home, and I found out the pothole impact did something to my alignment and now my car pulls fairly strongly to the right. And now in my stressed state all I can think about is the growing list of car expenses... I already had about $450 worth of work to get done on various parts (a bushing, and some rear alignment parts), plus my rotors are all pretty bad, and my other 3 tires are close to needing to be replaced.
The part that's pissing me off the worst is that I feel like I got ripped off. I could have had a cheap tire, but I can't afford to not have a car for days, and how does a place justify $85 to tow 6 miles?