God's blessing

Well it seems that God has been giving me grace upon grace in my driving. The latest example happened after coming back from Austin Friday. I was merging onto a road that would take me back to Houston. It goes from three lanes to one and there was some traffic. So it was slow going. People were letting one car merge sort of like a zipper but you know what I mean.

Well I was letting one car merge ahead of me and he kept waving me ahead. There was not enough room for me to zoom on ahead and my car does not accelerate too well so I kept trying to let him go ahead. I would fall in behind him. He kept waving and I kept declining. Finally I heard some loud cursing. Then I saw the chain. The two cars were chained together. Fortunately I had a lot of time to fall back. I saw the mistake was trying to merge between two cars, the second one was being towed by the first one. So I was saved again. I really think God has blessed me a lot.

But I make a lot of stupid financial mistakes. I am not particularly good at investing. Sadly it is my job to do that. There has to be some ironic humor in that.

I'm thinking mostly about mistakes involving repairs and renovations. A lack of trust and a lack of communication get me into problems a lot. My last debacle is going to cost me $500. And that is only for starters.

It involves my daughter's car which we took in for transmission problems. Now I must spend $500 to get it back from what I think is a dishonest repairman. Maybe he is not dishonest but about things like this how can one tell? I do not know enough to really decide. I do not trust him. But I am not a good judge of these things and certainly there must have been a better way of behaving.

Should we give up on the car and shop for a new (old) car for DD2? I will do something. I suspect it will be the wrong thing. This seems like other situations in the past. I seem to be doomed to repeat the same mistakes over again. Am I slowly learning to react better? Perhaps slowly. It is frustratingly slow though.

I seem to react the same way to situations that involve money and quick decisions. I end up wasting money when I am trying to save it. I end up throwing good money after bad, it seems. One can never predict the future. At times like this it is so maddening.