A local driver was put to shame today after failing the annual safety inspection on her family car. Helen, whose father is a mechanic and whose mother was recently certified to do state safety inspections in her home town, was very surprised to hear that her car had failed.
“Last year I expected the car to fail but it went very smoothly and passed with no problems,” Helen said. “Given the ease of last year I fully expected to pass once again with flying colors, but it was just not meant to be.”
Helen’s 2001 Ford Taurus reportedly failed the inspection due to a worn front passenger tire and a small tear in one of the windshield wiper blades.
“I had no idea that my tire was worn or that there was a tear in the wiper blade,” said Helen. “I paid for part of the inspection and got an estimate on new tires from the shop and was told I had two weeks to fix it all and bring it back.”
After loading her three children in the car and driving away Helen noticed a new sticker had been placed on the windshield of her car, but it wasn’t a nice completed inspection sticker, it was a rejection sticker.
“Last year I expected the car to fail but it went very smoothly and passed with no problems,” Helen said. “Given the ease of last year I fully expected to pass once again with flying colors, but it was just not meant to be.”
Helen’s 2001 Ford Taurus reportedly failed the inspection due to a worn front passenger tire and a small tear in one of the windshield wiper blades.
“I had no idea that my tire was worn or that there was a tear in the wiper blade,” said Helen. “I paid for part of the inspection and got an estimate on new tires from the shop and was told I had two weeks to fix it all and bring it back.”
After loading her three children in the car and driving away Helen noticed a new sticker had been placed on the windshield of her car, but it wasn’t a nice completed inspection sticker, it was a rejection sticker.
“It wasn’t until I was driving down the road that I finally saw the sticker.” Helen says, “I busted up laughing. I didn’t think it was funny, necessarily, it was just so shocking to see a big black and white rejection sticker on my windshield that all I could do was laugh.”Helen says she is now very self-conscious about driving her car because of the rejection sticker.
“The word on the sticker may be ‘REJECTION,’ but when I look at that sticker I read ‘This car really sucks!’” Helen laughs.
Dorothy and Buzz seem to see the silver lining in every cloud; their mom, Helen, only wishes she had such a great outlook on life.