I am still fine... my car is almost fine...

Jan 31, 2008 09:20

I love having intelligent moments while in a mechanic's garage.  I went to pick up my car from the folks who towed it yesterday and I walked in the garage and they said, "You know it doesn't run, right?"  Which sounded pretty weird to me, because when I landed in the ditch I turned off the engine and then turned it back on, just fine.  They also said that they couldn't look at it until Monday.  So I went out to look at it and among other things, noticed that the exhaust pipe was packed full of ice (presumably from said ditch).  So I told the mechanic about it and he said, "Hey, that could be it."  So they went out and cleared out the exhaust pipe, and the engine turned over just fine.

I could have waited until Monday to find out it was all because of ice in the exhaust pipe- if not for the fact that I knew my family would expect a full report of what happened and what the car looked like.

Anyways, there's a corner of the bumper that could use a little TLC, and my alignment is out of whack- when I hit 55 miles an hour the whole car vibrates.  For landing in a ditch, that's not bad.

In other news, a guy I knew from college is going to Hollywood for American Idol!  That should be fun.

Edit: photo on Facebook of the damage to my car.

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