I was driving my car upstate earlier this week, on the highway, when all of a sudden the two front wheels started acting really weird, then just completely locked, making the car skid out a little and stay stuck in the middle of the right lane.
I reved and reved and it got unlocked, but it sounded like everything inside the car had fallen apart, and it felt like at any moment the car would just collapse. I backed out of an entrance ramp and tried driving to find a garage, and the same thing happened, wheels locked, me stranded in the middle of the sticks, with half a bar of reception on my phone.
Luckily a lady stopped, gave me a ride to a hardware store, I was able to get a tow truck number, got it towed, waited for a friend to come get me. Transmition is totally shot, it would be at least $600 (I've put more money than I care to remember into this car).
So the guy said he'd scrap it for no charge, so I took the plates off, gathers some crap from the trunk, documents, and said goodbye. I've never felt more relieved before, except those times when you really gotta pee, and yeah...