Lucky Again

My car stopped in traffic today. It made a horrible noise and then I suddenly couldn't get it to do anything. I'm very lucky the car behind me was able to stop. I'm very lucky I wasn't it.

The car is at the mechanic's now. I'm hoping they can figure out what is wrong with it without multiple trips and multiple repeats of it stopping like this. 

I'm really screwed up about this. I came so close to being hit and I know things could have ended up a lot worse than they were. I hate it when the car is broken. Like my roommate says, we depend so much on them and they're so very old. 

Hopefully they can fix it.