Van Repairs

Yesterday morning I was driving Thomas to school, when I'm backing out of the driveway, and my van stalls and dies on me! WTF? I coast into the middle of the street and was like okayy... I put it in drive, try to give it some gas, nothing. I try reverse, nothing.I try to start it. Nothing. What the hell's going on here??! It's a new van for Criminy's sake! I just got it a month or so ago! Ok, 3 months, but that's neither here nor there. Thomas now is getting all upset going"we're gonna be late for school!" and starts crying."No one's gonna be late for schoool" I said as I flag down my neighbor leaving for work and ask for a jump- he obliges and as I get my cables out that I've never used before- theyre brand new that I keep in case of emergency in a kit that I have in my car In case of breakdowns and such_Tom thought I was nuts but HAH! here we are- I told my neighbor " lemme try one more time just in case so we don't damage each other's cars in case its nothing, and the darn thing fired back up again and started! I was like "what the??" and felt like a jackass in front of my neighbor and apologized but thanked him all the same. Then today I took it to my dealership and told them what happened, and they took a look at it for me first keeping it for the day and sending me and the kids home in a courtesy van - that was no picnic- bringing a stroller, a carseat, an infant carseat/w/base plus 6month old and 5 yr old because he had no school today. Then around 430 they picked us up again with a courtesy van when the van was ready - stroller, carseat, baby, carrier/base, five year old and myself all packed in to get my van and when I found out the price to pay for it? My jaw hit the floor!! 434.10!! I was like in shock! I said "what did you do??" I said "All you did was put new spark plugs in right? Thats all my husband authorized you to do ...." they said "yes that's right" so I said "so where did the rest of this money go to? " they said " that was the labor". Again shock. Who charges 352 .00 for labor???! I asked "how much were the spark plugs?" she said "48.00."I said "hell I coulda bought those!" I said I had a coupon for 10% off service and she rolled her eyes she had to ring it all up again - it saved me 40 bucks - whoopee- the price of the spark plugs! So now my grand total was 394 .64 - Those spark plugs better have been dipped in gold for THAT price! That's what we get for not buying the extended warrantee! A repair bill out the you know where! And for what? A misfiring engine from sparkplugs.They wanted to do a tune up, but that would cost 700 dollars! Thanks but what do I look like ? A money tree? I'll take it one thing at a time thank you! If I can fix it CHEAPLY at home I WILL thank you! 352 .00 for labor - never heard of such highway robbery in my life.. If I wasn't going away up north for Christmas I'd tell you to go take a walk... *mumble grumble mumble..352 dollars.....mmmmmm*