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| What a fun turn of events; SO much broken stuff! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 14 2010, 08:30 AM (263 Views) | |
| Aqua Letifer | Mar 14 2010, 08:30 AM Post #1 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yesterday on my way to class (about mile 4 of an 11 mile drive), my car's brake light and battery light flashed on. Oh ****, thought I, this may be serious. But I tested my brakes and they seemed fine, and there was nothing to indicate a battery issue. So I kept driving, planning on getting the car looked at afterward. A few more miles down the road and it became difficult to steer; the power steering was shot. The situation became rather serious indeed. I started to doubt my ability to make it. Things were failing left and right. The windshield wipers were slowing down, the ABS brake light turned on, and the A/C blew; power-wise, the car was bleeding to death. By the time I got it off the road, it was losing oil pressure. The display panel was lit up like a damn Christmas tree. So I walked the extra three or so miles to class in the rain, and then four hours later took the metro home. I told my roommate, who used to be a mechanic, and he said sure we could take a look at it. We drove his car back to where mine had collapsed. I assumed it was the battery but MAYBE the alternator as well, but I don't know sh!t about cars so I was only guessing. He said nah, repeat back for me the exact series in which things failed. I did and he said, "your belt blew. Gonna cost ya about ten bucks to replace it plus a beer's worth of labor." And holy crap, he was right. There was an auto parts store within 100 feet of my car, and they had what I needed so I was back on the road in no time. Perfect fix. But following him back to our place, I started to smell something. I thought MAYBE it was the belt settling in but no, that was silly. This is a brake smell. I tested mine again but they seemed fine. Turned out it was my roommate's brakes, his calipers were seizing somehow. As soon as we park I get out and see if everything's alright. He said yeah, most likely but he thinks he's going to need new calipers, this has been going on all week, and could I drive him to another auto store. I said sure my car's still running and I.... locked my ****ing keys in the car. I've done that only twice in my life and I've gotten in and out of my car more than any three average people combined. Un freaking believable. He said, "no worries, I'm good at this, too, just need a coat hanger." I won't get into the specifics but I told him basically no freaking way. My car has a history of being impenetrable. The last time this happened a friend tried to open the door for me, as did the manager of the place where I worked where it happened, then a policeman tried to pop the lock with a slim jim, then when she could do it her partner tried, and when he failed I called triple A and they had a hell of a time opening it up (took them over an hour). He said, "you're assuming I won't get it open, because they couldn't do it? You shouldn't compare me to mere mortals like that, it's insulting!" And no joke, with a metal coat hanger and a piece of cardboard he cut out from the beer case we bought the night before, he opened my car door in about 3 minutes, and without a flashlight. It was ridiculous. So we went to the auto parts store, he got his calipers, and got his car fixed in no time. I felt bad that I caused all this undue drama and wanted to make it up for him, and just when I was thinking how to do that this morning, he walked in full of mud, holding his bicycle. Apparently he wrecked this morning going through a turn and bent the hell out of is derailleur hanger, possibly screwed up his gears, too. I told him I could probably help with that.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 14 2010, 08:38 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Bad feng shui. Rearrange your furniture and your chi will improve. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| sue | Mar 14 2010, 08:43 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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you have a funny idea of fun. you have a cool roommate, though. Is the the Greek guy who cooks food for everybody? |
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 14 2010, 08:51 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Nope, but he's making some kind of spinach casserole thing now while I'm working on the other guy's bike in the kitchen.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| apple | Mar 14 2010, 09:43 AM Post #5 |
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one of the angels
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he's a good friend to have. |
| it behooves me to behold | |
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| Axtremus | Mar 14 2010, 09:54 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You live a colorful life with colorful acquiantances, Aqua. ![]() The most "interesting" car accident story I can tell is that I once drove my car into a ditch while on the way trying to send a friend to airport. Had to wait for a tow truck to pull the car out, but we made it to the airport. A year later, I went to DC and figure I'd call that friend because he lives there. His parents picked up the phone, figured out who I was, and invited me to dinner for having persevered through snow and icy rain and car-in-a-ditch to get their son home on time for Mother's Day. My mind reacted, I think, like Obama's did when he found out he's won the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| NAK | Mar 14 2010, 07:35 PM Post #7 |
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Senior Carp
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You've got some funny stories, dude. And apparently some pretty cool friends. Weird, though, that all this happened withing 48 hours. Haven't seen this guy around, have you?
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| brenda | Mar 14 2010, 11:53 PM Post #8 |
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Too funny that your car died so close to the auto parts store. Very convenient! Glad it got fixed, and that it didn't cost a fortune.
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 15 2010, 04:10 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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There is a good story. Polish it and publish it. Find some life lesson in there. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 15 2010, 04:41 AM Post #10 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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That's better than them chastizing you for DWA. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Red Rice | Mar 15 2010, 07:04 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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But you didn't say: "What, you sh!ttin' me?" |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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And apparently some pretty cool friends. Weird, though, that all this happened withing 48 hours. Haven't seen this guy around, have you?


11:12 AM Jul 11