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So I bought my first car last night.



Less than sixteen hours later, the brakes failed, slamming me into the back of a flatbed on the highway, totaling my car.





I didn't need an ambulance, but I'm bruised and horribly pissed off. The dealership says that it's my problem because it had no warranty and I bought it as is. Too bad Texas has a law about selling unsafe vehicles. They have an auto shop on their property.



And the excuse?

There isn't one. Apparently, they just didn't look at the brakes. Or something.




I put a stop payment on my check because they didn't call me for five hours or so after I called them and informed them of what happened. They said that's fraud (whether that is or not, I don't know).


They also charged the credit card of the person who went in on it with me without his signature. That's fraud by any definition of the law.



Now we're in negotiations and I'm being told by everyone to sue for either pain and suffering or the sale of an unsafe vehicle.

I may have lost my new job thanks to the fact that I couldn't make it the first day since I happened to no longer have a car to get there in.



You know, you'd think there'd be a law about selling cars with faulty brakes, but, alas, it seems that no one gives a fuck until it happens to them. Or their child.




I keep thinking about what if it hadn't been me who had bought the car? What if it was a family with small children? I bought a Honda Accord Sedan. Good car for a family. I hit the truck going 55-60 and he was going about 45-50. Smacked in the face with an airbag. What if there had been a child in the passenger seat? What if there had been a baby in the back?

The way everything went, this was the best case scenario for this to happen. Everyone was fine and the truck didn't even have a mark on it. Well, some mud was wiped off his mudflap...



But what if there were children? What if the driver had been pregnant? What if the brakes had given out when I had to stop suddenly going the normal highway speed of 80? What if...what if...what if...



What if they had given out when someone was test driving it?



What if I couldn't stop when I was going through an intersection? What if?




I don't know what we're doing, but if they keep fucking with me and won't settle, I'm going to sue them. They can't sell cars that have no brakes.





I told you...I wasn't allowed to be happy....