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TIFU by spending 4 hours deep cleaning my car to sell it for rent money just or a pipe to burst in my garage and destroy it

honestly i am just so done with today and i feel like the universe is literally laughing at me at this point. i have been struggling with my finances for a while now and i finally made the hard decision to sell my car because i really need the money for my rent and some bills that have been piling up. i spent my whole afternoon scrubbing every single corner of that car. i mean i was out there with a toothbrush cleaning the air vents and everything. i wanted it to look brand new so the buyer wouldn't have any reason to try and talk me down on the price.

i finally finish around 7pm and the car looks incredible. i park it in its usual spot in the garage and go inside to finally get a shower and relax. not even ten minutes into my shower i hear this absolutely massive crash from the garage. i literally jumped out of the shower and ran out there in my towel because i thought someone had crashed into the building or something.

come to find out a major pipe in the ceiling right above my car decided that today was the day it wanted to give up on life. the ceiling is completely gone and my car is buried under a mountain of wet drywall and this disgusting rusty brown water sludge. the inside was a bit open too because i was letting the leather cleaner dry out. it is a complete disaster and there is no way i can fix this in time. the buyer is literally supposed to be here at 8am tomorrow morning and i have no idea what to even tell them. i actually want to cry lol.

TL,DR: i spent four hours deep cleaning my car to sell it so i could pay my rent but then a pipe burst in my garage and covered the whole thing in rusty sludge and drywall right before the buyer was supposed to show up.

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