Strugglebucket
02-16-2005, 01:34 AM
it was(still is) a dark and stormy night.
i was coming home from work in my POS '88 dx that i've been driving while i work on my lx-i. POS it may be, but this car has been good to me. it's enabled me to get a lot of work done on the lx-i, -i nicknamed her "the enabler".
purchased for $50 last summer, i've gotten nearly 15,000 miles out of it after replacing the rad, stat, and dizzy. the car and i have both been fortunate to have found each other, but tonight as we effect our egress across the rain-sodden tarmac it seems our luck is about to change.
here i am driving down a road i have been down many times before. everything is fine until, suddenly... a red glow eminates from my gauge cluster. i look down. it is the one that looks like a magic lamp. but it doesn't mean a genie will pop out of my dash and will grant me three wishes, it means I AM LOSING MY OIL PRESSURE!
so i stop at the first gas station i come to, thinking i'm low on oil.
nope! the oil is full. :ugh:
i sit back down inside the now disabled enabler.
as i listen to the rain drumming across the windshield i consider my options:
option #1) i can try to phone my roomate and ask if he can bring his truck to tow my car home. he may not be home. he may not be sober.
option #2) i can walk the five miles home in the rain and come back for the car later.
option #3) i can attempt to drive the car home.
being the daredevil and strong advocate of fate testing that i am, i choose option #3. holding my breath, i begin what i grimly realize may be the last trip home the enabler ever makes.
i baby it like i have never babied anything before. i do not rev past 2k. i coast through stop signs. i get every stoplight green by sheer force of will alone.
funny side note: did you know that when your oil pressure starts dropping there are two stages to the idiot light? first it just lights up dim red. then, when the pressure gets really low, it starts flashing bright red, soft red. bright red, soft red. neato, huh?
anyway, i made it home. i don't know how i did it. i mean i don't know how she did it.
magic maybe?
love?
aliens?
all i know is when i shut the engine off safe in the sanctuary of my driveway, i thanked her and patted her on the dash promising never to put her through such an ordeal again.
now i just gotta figure out what's wrong.
...and how i'm getting to work tomorrow.
i was coming home from work in my POS '88 dx that i've been driving while i work on my lx-i. POS it may be, but this car has been good to me. it's enabled me to get a lot of work done on the lx-i, -i nicknamed her "the enabler".
purchased for $50 last summer, i've gotten nearly 15,000 miles out of it after replacing the rad, stat, and dizzy. the car and i have both been fortunate to have found each other, but tonight as we effect our egress across the rain-sodden tarmac it seems our luck is about to change.
here i am driving down a road i have been down many times before. everything is fine until, suddenly... a red glow eminates from my gauge cluster. i look down. it is the one that looks like a magic lamp. but it doesn't mean a genie will pop out of my dash and will grant me three wishes, it means I AM LOSING MY OIL PRESSURE!
so i stop at the first gas station i come to, thinking i'm low on oil.
nope! the oil is full. :ugh:
i sit back down inside the now disabled enabler.
as i listen to the rain drumming across the windshield i consider my options:
option #1) i can try to phone my roomate and ask if he can bring his truck to tow my car home. he may not be home. he may not be sober.
option #2) i can walk the five miles home in the rain and come back for the car later.
option #3) i can attempt to drive the car home.
being the daredevil and strong advocate of fate testing that i am, i choose option #3. holding my breath, i begin what i grimly realize may be the last trip home the enabler ever makes.
i baby it like i have never babied anything before. i do not rev past 2k. i coast through stop signs. i get every stoplight green by sheer force of will alone.
funny side note: did you know that when your oil pressure starts dropping there are two stages to the idiot light? first it just lights up dim red. then, when the pressure gets really low, it starts flashing bright red, soft red. bright red, soft red. neato, huh?
anyway, i made it home. i don't know how i did it. i mean i don't know how she did it.
magic maybe?
love?
aliens?
all i know is when i shut the engine off safe in the sanctuary of my driveway, i thanked her and patted her on the dash promising never to put her through such an ordeal again.
now i just gotta figure out what's wrong.
...and how i'm getting to work tomorrow.