happy valentines day....to my car.
hello livejournal. haven't seen you in a few months.
my car doors were frozen completely shut this morning. It was obnoxiously cold, but i really wasn't even irritated. I just thought it was funny. Which got me thinking about all the terrible ridiculous things that have happened with my car and have now become funny memories.
Starting over five years ago, when I bought the car and didn't know how to drive a stick shift. I pulled out very slowly in front of some lady going stupidly fast on hurstbourne lane. She then pulled up beside us ( my brother was in the car) at a stop light and began to make rude faces and gestures. My brother, ever defensive of me, responded by opening his window and yelling "yeah! thats reeeaaaaal mature lady!!" and clapping his hands. She rolled up her window, but her back window was still open and he continued to verbally harass her untill she pulled off. Probably not the best thing to do, but VERY FUNNY. (yay Tim!)
Then there was the time that i retardedly backed my car in to the ditch at Jessies house. I still feel reeeeeeely stupid about that. Andrew and Tarrah were very patient and didn't make me feel any more stupid than i already did while we waited for my brother to come haul the car out of the ditch (yay Tim!)
next was the time that i was suposed to have lunch with my cousin. It was about 90 degrees outside and my cousin was about a hundred months pregnant. I was pulling out of the UofL parking garage whe my exhaust pipe broke and began dragging the ground and the muffler was barely hanging on. Eventually some parking guy found a coat hanger and rigged up the exhaust pipe so that it at least wouldn't drag the ground. It was ridiculously loud.
It was even more fun when that happened for the second time on my way home from work one night, around midnight. My friend drew was kind enough to come hang out with me and let me use his AAA membership. AAA guy showed up and was super creepy, but rigged up the pipe with a hanger and i was on my way, waking people up all the way to indiana with the most annoying sound ever!
some of my favorites are the multiple times my battery has died. One of the first times, I called my other brother "Adam, my car won't start" his immediate reply "is there gas in it?" Me: "i'm not THAT stupid" he came and saved me that time. We had to buy a new battery. (yay adam!)
he saved me again when the battery died at my apartment. and i opened another cars door, took jumper cables out and used them. I was freaking out. I mean, i knew the people probably wouldn't care. Their doors were unlocked and the cables were sitting there in plain view, but it felt so wrong! ahhh. (yay adam)
the all time ultimate best worst car story was when i again left my lights on while at molly malones. I came out and the lights were still on, so i thought that meant i might still have enough battery to start my car. Wrong. However, there was enough battery to trigger the alarm to keep going off. The car wouldn't start, even with the jumper cables the bartender literally "ran home" to get for me. After trying multiple times to start the car while it was hooked up, i got out and shut the door. Well, the alarm went off and locked my keys in my car. From that point on it took Jenn leaving work so i could use her AAA, two different AAA guys, a trip to CVS for an eyeglass repair kit, many hours, and having the alarm ripped out of my car in order to get it started. Its never been the same. To this day, the car won't start if the dome light is not in the completely off position. Awesome.
you'd think after all of this, i would carry my own jumper cables and have my own AAA membership, but that is not the case.
anyway. Happy Valentines day.
my car doors were frozen completely shut this morning. It was obnoxiously cold, but i really wasn't even irritated. I just thought it was funny. Which got me thinking about all the terrible ridiculous things that have happened with my car and have now become funny memories.
Starting over five years ago, when I bought the car and didn't know how to drive a stick shift. I pulled out very slowly in front of some lady going stupidly fast on hurstbourne lane. She then pulled up beside us ( my brother was in the car) at a stop light and began to make rude faces and gestures. My brother, ever defensive of me, responded by opening his window and yelling "yeah! thats reeeaaaaal mature lady!!" and clapping his hands. She rolled up her window, but her back window was still open and he continued to verbally harass her untill she pulled off. Probably not the best thing to do, but VERY FUNNY. (yay Tim!)
Then there was the time that i retardedly backed my car in to the ditch at Jessies house. I still feel reeeeeeely stupid about that. Andrew and Tarrah were very patient and didn't make me feel any more stupid than i already did while we waited for my brother to come haul the car out of the ditch (yay Tim!)
next was the time that i was suposed to have lunch with my cousin. It was about 90 degrees outside and my cousin was about a hundred months pregnant. I was pulling out of the UofL parking garage whe my exhaust pipe broke and began dragging the ground and the muffler was barely hanging on. Eventually some parking guy found a coat hanger and rigged up the exhaust pipe so that it at least wouldn't drag the ground. It was ridiculously loud.
It was even more fun when that happened for the second time on my way home from work one night, around midnight. My friend drew was kind enough to come hang out with me and let me use his AAA membership. AAA guy showed up and was super creepy, but rigged up the pipe with a hanger and i was on my way, waking people up all the way to indiana with the most annoying sound ever!
some of my favorites are the multiple times my battery has died. One of the first times, I called my other brother "Adam, my car won't start" his immediate reply "is there gas in it?" Me: "i'm not THAT stupid" he came and saved me that time. We had to buy a new battery. (yay adam!)
he saved me again when the battery died at my apartment. and i opened another cars door, took jumper cables out and used them. I was freaking out. I mean, i knew the people probably wouldn't care. Their doors were unlocked and the cables were sitting there in plain view, but it felt so wrong! ahhh. (yay adam)
the all time ultimate best worst car story was when i again left my lights on while at molly malones. I came out and the lights were still on, so i thought that meant i might still have enough battery to start my car. Wrong. However, there was enough battery to trigger the alarm to keep going off. The car wouldn't start, even with the jumper cables the bartender literally "ran home" to get for me. After trying multiple times to start the car while it was hooked up, i got out and shut the door. Well, the alarm went off and locked my keys in my car. From that point on it took Jenn leaving work so i could use her AAA, two different AAA guys, a trip to CVS for an eyeglass repair kit, many hours, and having the alarm ripped out of my car in order to get it started. Its never been the same. To this day, the car won't start if the dome light is not in the completely off position. Awesome.
you'd think after all of this, i would carry my own jumper cables and have my own AAA membership, but that is not the case.
anyway. Happy Valentines day.