glück im unglück und merkwürdige naturphänomene

yesterday it rained for the first time since i've been here. coming from germany, this shouldn't strike me as an exceptional phenomenon, but here it's really a little freaky. suddenly there's water, falling down from the sky! we used an umbrella! (even more surprising was the fact that lindsay actually had an umbrella in his car)
i had been very excited for the last couple of days, because i was supposed to get my car on friday. but, pustekuchen, aber: glück im umglück. the girl who owned the car went on a trip to san francisco last week and wanted to sell me the car after she returned. she even had the car checked before her trip to make sure it would last that long. well, it didn't. it broke down somewhere on the way, and it turned out that the repair would have cost more than the car was worth, so she sold the car for a bad price to some guy in san francisco and came back in a rental car. sounds like a not-so-fun trip. so now i have to find a car somewhere else, but i'm sort of scared to do that, because i feel like there are about a million ways in which that can go wrong and about 5 or 6 that will turn out ok. like playing lotto. i'm just the perfect person to be fooled by some nasty car dealer, he wouldn't even have to be all that clever...