Over the past several weeks... maybe the realization had been setting in gradually. From the insurance company, to towing companies, mobile mechanics, countless repair shops and even specialty repair shops like semi repair and even a couple of folks that claimed a focus on RV engine repair. It was also interesting to learn that many shops out there that claim to specialize in RV repair... actually specify in the fine print that their services were available for every part of an RV... except the engine.

And while that realization may have begun to set in almost immediately... I guess I just needed to hear the same thing literally dozens of times... in dozens of different ways.

The call that would finally end my desire to dial another business... came at the end of a conversation with a mobile mechanic I’d tracked down after exhausting what felt like every traditional option Salt Lake City had to offer. I figured a mobile mechanic might be different. He lived here. He worked here. Even if the job was more than he could handle alone... and on the curbside of a city park... surely he knew people. Surely he could point me somewhere useful.

Instead I got...

“It’s not worth fixing.”

“Just throw it away and get another one.”

I’d heard that before. Too many times. But this guy delivered it with a particular kind of dismissiveness that landed differently. Like the answer was obvious. Like I was wasting his time by not already knowing it.

But still... I took a breath and asked if he knew of anyone else I might call…

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