I have lived in Sylacauga all my life, but I’m fascinated with the outside world. My best friend in high school, who lives in California today, has been everywhere, and she knows all these facts.  Like, If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. Personally, I wonder about those people standing in line making babies, but I’ve never been there so maybe they would do things like that. I don’t judge.

I don’t necessarily agree with the way other people handle their money, but I’ve learned it doesn’t make sense to tsk tsk tsk just because someone runs short on cash. I say this because even though my car is paid for and I’m a hard worker, I ran into a cash shortage myself about a month ago. My son got into some trouble and I had to hire a lawyer for him. Turns out it cost me $2000. My son has a job and is going to to school, but he didn’t have the money either.

So I used my car and went to Car Title Loans in Sylacauga, a car pawn shop that’s online.  It was a perfect solution – we got the money and paid the lawyer on time for the court proceedings.

My friends from all over – in Childersburg, Lincoln, Oxford, Talladega, Bon Air, and Sylacauga – tell me they’ve had similar needs for cash, and that title loans are they way they manage it.

I just took a business course at Lawson State after I lost my last job. Which was great, I never knew how to use all my fingers on the keyboard. And that’s when I learned that TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard. Amazing, isn’t it. That’s almost like when there’s a funeral director with the name Bury, or a guy running a fishing boat business is named Rivers. Things like that amaze me.

I’m also amazed at how no matter how cautious I am with money, there just are times when you can’t win. I had just finished paying for my car, after four years of monthly payments, and WHAM, I get sideswiped by some kid on meth or something. He took off, I didn’t get his license plates and they never found him.  Meanwhile, I was only carrying liability coverage on my car, not collision, and I was stuck with an $800 bill unless I was willing to drive around with plastic on a window and the passenger door not able to open.

That’s when I figured out how car title loans work. You go online, fill out a form and the money you need gets there in two days. So I used Car Title Loans in Pelham, because they were super nice and easy to work with. It made sense to me to use my car to cover a car repair cost. I paid back the loan in about six weeks and everything is a-ok again.

From what I hear, people from all around – in Alabaster, Birmingham, Calera, Childersburg, Vestavia Hills and Pelham – use this service, for anything, not just car repairs. It’s money when you need it.