"driving home by candle light"
so over a week ago i got pulled over, right in front of my house, because my front headlight was out... i didn't get a ticket luckily but when i bought the new bulb and looked in the owners manual on how to change it i realized it looked really effing hard to do. i had helped a. change bulbs twice before, but it was inside the hood. this involved going down under the fender in front of the tire and all this stuff that looked complicated. and i needed a screwdriver which i didn't have on me. so for this whole week i have been driving around with one headlight, trying to get home before dark and keeping the bulb in the front seat along with the manual in case i got pulled over i could plead my case..
so today was the day. armed with my screwdriver i went out to tackle the job.
i got into the panel okay, but then i was supposed to turn the bulb a quarter turn counter clockwise. when i tried it this felt as impossible. and it was hard to get my hand in there and i couldn't see. so i went inside and got a flashlight. tried some more, nothing. and my hair kept falling in my face. so i got barrettes. and some dude driving by honked at me. not sure why and he was smiling and kinda cute so i didn't decide if that was good or bad or both. oh! and i found myself getting annoyed that i was single. i just ended a relationship recently and the boy was a mechanic and could fix most anything, and always wore this hat with a little light in it, so i felt helpless without him. except this is ridiculous because it was a long distance relationship and he would never have been there to help me with this! so where were these feelings coming from? ell if i know but i pushed through. this shit runs deep for us ladies i think...
my arm was getting sore and scratched up and the whole thing was just exhausting my will. i sat back and realized i may have to give up and take it in somewhere to have them do it. this bummed me out. at that point i knew pretty well that the manual was correct, i was in the right place, i was pushing on the right bit, it just wouldn't budge. so i decided to try it one more time. this time i said to myself that i was willing to break it. that i would rather break it and bring that in to be fixed than bring this bulb in to be replaced. and boom the little effing thing gave all at once, a quater turn counter clockwise. just like it said in the little book.
i fell back on the dirt and just lay there. i was so happy. and relieved. then i had to get the connector out too and that was almost as impossible but this time i had more confidence. it took a few tries though.
getting the new one in was super easy then. whew!
so today was the day. armed with my screwdriver i went out to tackle the job.
i got into the panel okay, but then i was supposed to turn the bulb a quarter turn counter clockwise. when i tried it this felt as impossible. and it was hard to get my hand in there and i couldn't see. so i went inside and got a flashlight. tried some more, nothing. and my hair kept falling in my face. so i got barrettes. and some dude driving by honked at me. not sure why and he was smiling and kinda cute so i didn't decide if that was good or bad or both. oh! and i found myself getting annoyed that i was single. i just ended a relationship recently and the boy was a mechanic and could fix most anything, and always wore this hat with a little light in it, so i felt helpless without him. except this is ridiculous because it was a long distance relationship and he would never have been there to help me with this! so where were these feelings coming from? ell if i know but i pushed through. this shit runs deep for us ladies i think...
my arm was getting sore and scratched up and the whole thing was just exhausting my will. i sat back and realized i may have to give up and take it in somewhere to have them do it. this bummed me out. at that point i knew pretty well that the manual was correct, i was in the right place, i was pushing on the right bit, it just wouldn't budge. so i decided to try it one more time. this time i said to myself that i was willing to break it. that i would rather break it and bring that in to be fixed than bring this bulb in to be replaced. and boom the little effing thing gave all at once, a quater turn counter clockwise. just like it said in the little book.
i fell back on the dirt and just lay there. i was so happy. and relieved. then i had to get the connector out too and that was almost as impossible but this time i had more confidence. it took a few tries though.
getting the new one in was super easy then. whew!