Salaamu Alaikum

WOW, its 12:53 afternoon, and its been a lonnnng day. this is gonna require a brief history lesson. earlier this year, while the spring semester was drawing to a close, my 98 nissan sentra died. inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon. i killed it. by accident. really. there was nothing i could have done to avoid it >_> ...except maybe not go on the road. but whatever, Allah is the best of Planners. so i survive the rest of the semester without a car, getting rides from friends, and nearly walking home from work (out of boredom and lack of patience to wait for a ride) a couple of times.

so we're looking around for another car. we go to this local public auction. its vicious cuz im seeing some good cars for like 100 bucks n what not. this part is a whole nother in itself, so im gonna just go to the end. i bought a Lincoln Mark VIII, and my dad who was pretty angry that i did that went ahead and got a 87 volvo station wagon, talkin bout volvos are the best and what not. the Lincoln served a purpose, basically i traded it for the Max that i got now, alhamdulillah. but for the volvo, somehow we managed to lose the keys the first day. it wasnt me, but i still took the heat for it. by the time we went to the dealer and got another copy of the keys and came back (a few days) the car was stolen. police report. they didnt find it. whatever. i didnt want the volvo anyways.

2-3 months go by, i manage to get this Maxima of mine, things are settling down. yesterday, we get a letter from some impound place talkin bout your car has been sitting here for this many days, and you have to pay this much money. today, we gotta go take care of this.

thats the history. this is today:

so im up early and i take my dad to the MVA, where I wait in line for like 40 mins. we're trynna get temp tags so we can move the car once we claim it. but when we first got the car, we already GOT temp tags, and when it got stolen, we returned the tags, not before they expired tho. so the ppl at MVA are like you already got tags once, you can't get em again. blah blah, so the trip to the MVA proves useless, and now its to the impound place. i take my dad there, and we claim the car, show the title, ID, and that it got stolen and what not. they show us the car, i try to turn it on and it needs a jump. my dad still wants it. im still wondering what were gonna do with another car? especially since this thing is an 87 and it probably wont pass inspection without us dishing out a good amount of money. but my dad wants it. we cant get tags. we gotta get it towed.

lines and more lines. dude offers to tow. they dont take credit cards, we gotta go get cash. their "detectives" have to double check to make sure the car was stolen, cuz then we wont have to pay the 300 dollars worth of storage fees. this and that. just running around everywhere.

anyways, by the TIME we have some cash and are ready to pay to release the car and get it towed to an inspection center, a cop is there. and they're like, "you cant get the car."

what? why?

it was used in a homicide.

GREAT.

may Allah take forgive our sins and alleviate our hardships and make us from among the Dwellers of Paradise. Ameen.

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2 of my college classes got cut cuz of insufficient enrollment. man they were gonna be the 2 easy classes too. one of them was about islam and muslims in the west, and the other was some community service thing (both of which I DO need as electives :D) but now im gonna have to replace them with something harder. i gotta do that today.

what else.....Fiqh of Love. haha thoughts on this one later.

Allahumma Inni Astaghfiruka bi Rahmatika, Yaa Arham al-Rahimeen.