(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday Top Comments. Oy. For Emergencies Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-16 Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! I am horrible when it comes to personal finance. I’m a teacher finally making my age (that will soon pass) and so basically live paycheck to paycheck. I had one credit card with a limit of a few hundred that I could keep current on the payment. But this summer I must have had a premonition. I thought long and hard, and got another card, this one with a much much bigger limit. And it saved my bacon. So, in the midst of all the good stuff happening this summer, and a new school year with AMAZING kids (all my choir kids WANT to be there and to sing well), like Arthur Dent, I KNEW the Universe was hiding around a corner waiting to jump out and say “BOO” to me. It happened on the second day of school. I get ready, put my key in the ignition, then NOTHING. Nada. Zilch. Not even a click for a bad battery or starter. This means I have to have it towed to the dealership while missing a day of school. It gets to the dealership and I find that the key FOBs need batteries. Now, a word about my keys. One still had all the buttons, thanks to regular taping. So I can unlock the doors remotely. HOWEVER, the stick that goes in the ignition broke. The other one had NO buttons, but a stick. Put a pin in that. So, they also tell me bad things about my car besides the keys. I don’t want to spend a lot of money, so they just put batteries in the key remotes. Fast forward almost two weeks later. I’m about to go do my laundry at the local laundromat. I stick the one key in the ignition and NOTHING. AGAIN. As this is the weekend, I can’t bring it in until Monday. Plus, I drain my battery in the car. Come Monday, I ride with the tow truck to the dealership. When all is said and done, I get two brand new keys, pay the programming fee, and I get an overpriced battery. So knock wood, things are back to normal. And in talking with my brother, I learned that the battery—if it’s what my brother said they put in—is not super overpriced and I paid the going rate. Now here’s my task: I must up my savings game a LOT, because eventually, within the next year knock wood, I’m going to have to purchase or lease a new car. And I DO NOT want to put the down payment on that emergency card I got this summer. I’ve put enough on it with all my car stuff already. And here’s a thing I’d like more info in the comments: My credit score since I got that card has gone UP almost 100 points. How does that work? Anyway, I’m still having a great school year, knock wood. So on to Tops! TOP COMMENTS Brillig's ObDisclaimer: The decision to publish each nomination lies with the evening's Diarist and/or Comment Formatter. My evenings at the helm, I try reeeeallllyy hard to publish everything without regard to content. I really do, even when I disagree personally with any given nomination. "TopCommentness" lies in the eyes of the nominator and of you, the reader - I leave the decision to you. I do not publish self-nominations (ie your own comments) and if I ruled the world, we'd all build community, supporting and uplifting instead of tearing our fellow Kossacks down. Please remember that comment inclusion in Top Comments does not constitute support or endorsement by diarist, formatter, Top Comments writers or DailyKos. Questions, complaints or comments? Contact brillig. As of this writing, there are no submissions for Saturday September 16 TOP MOJO Top Mojo for today, September 16, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/16/2193732/-Saturday-Top-Comments-Oy-For-Emergencies-Edition Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/