Mondays are like that anyway
It was tough to wake up this morning. I hit the snooze till the last couple minutes possible and then threw myself together.
Yes, literally I threw myself together. I woke up and my arm was a good three feet from my body. The damn cats had gnawed it off again in the feverishly hot summer night. I sat up and from the foot of the bed I picked the stub up. Throwing it with my good arm the stub bounced off of the adjacent wall and came right back at me. As luck would have it the arm fell right back into the socket. The cats cursed my most excellent aim. It's ok though. They're just being petty because it's summer, they have more body hair and I control the air conditioning.
My car was being snotty the other day. Maybe it's a European thing? It flashed the "Check Engine" light which totally freaked me out. Normally mundane warnings are spelled out in easy to understand language. If the gas cap is loose it will say "tighten fuel cap". If the coolant level is low it will read "check coolant level". "Check Engine" though was cryptic and seemly demanded professional attention. DAMN.
Thank GAWD SAABs are cult cars. I got on to www.saabnet.com and sure enough tons of others had the same issue. Evidently SAABs are pansies over emissions. The smallest deviance or emissions fluke and the computer freaks out and flashes a damningly harsh "Check Engine" signal. I disconnected the battery and reset the computer to see if it was a fluke as noted on the boards or something reoccurring.
Nothing reoccurring. Hopefully that means that I'm in the clear. Awesome...
Audi had a promotion going. You test drive a new car (the A3) and they give you 33 free itunes in return for your. I love driving other cars so of course I was all over that.
The 2.0L is a new 4 banger and promised to VW as well. It was smooth and turbo lag was non existent. Nice car. Clean interior. Smart suspension. It made me think how spongy my ride is in the 9-5. That's ok though because I'll be due for replacing part of that soon and that will clean things up nicely. Eibach springs and Koni struts would do just fine.
Back to the Audi: The A3 had ZERO rear leg space. I'm a freak though at 6'4", but still...
Oh! Speaking of freaks, the salesman was a freak. He was a NAZI to be specific. (This is the part that's really worth retelling.)
After the drive I parked the car and we made idle chit chat. We talked about SAAB taking parts from other GM divisions (specifically the Epsilon platform) and also how Audi would be sharing its brilliant new 2 liter with VW. From that discourse he began, "Yeah, I think when SAAB sold to GM somehow they lost something special and were in a way diluted. The same can be said of Volvo when it sold to Ford. At least with Audi it's a German car with German parts built in Germany. It's completely untainted and that says something important. HILE HITLER!"
Ok, ok. So I added the Hitler part, but toward the end of the test run it was definitely the vibe that I was getting from him. Anyway, the man made the German statement and I found myself nervously fumble and mention my mom owned a German engineered Benz. It was a VERY awkward moment.
Yes, literally I threw myself together. I woke up and my arm was a good three feet from my body. The damn cats had gnawed it off again in the feverishly hot summer night. I sat up and from the foot of the bed I picked the stub up. Throwing it with my good arm the stub bounced off of the adjacent wall and came right back at me. As luck would have it the arm fell right back into the socket. The cats cursed my most excellent aim. It's ok though. They're just being petty because it's summer, they have more body hair and I control the air conditioning.
My car was being snotty the other day. Maybe it's a European thing? It flashed the "Check Engine" light which totally freaked me out. Normally mundane warnings are spelled out in easy to understand language. If the gas cap is loose it will say "tighten fuel cap". If the coolant level is low it will read "check coolant level". "Check Engine" though was cryptic and seemly demanded professional attention. DAMN.
Thank GAWD SAABs are cult cars. I got on to www.saabnet.com and sure enough tons of others had the same issue. Evidently SAABs are pansies over emissions. The smallest deviance or emissions fluke and the computer freaks out and flashes a damningly harsh "Check Engine" signal. I disconnected the battery and reset the computer to see if it was a fluke as noted on the boards or something reoccurring.
Nothing reoccurring. Hopefully that means that I'm in the clear. Awesome...
Audi had a promotion going. You test drive a new car (the A3) and they give you 33 free itunes in return for your. I love driving other cars so of course I was all over that.
The 2.0L is a new 4 banger and promised to VW as well. It was smooth and turbo lag was non existent. Nice car. Clean interior. Smart suspension. It made me think how spongy my ride is in the 9-5. That's ok though because I'll be due for replacing part of that soon and that will clean things up nicely. Eibach springs and Koni struts would do just fine.
Back to the Audi: The A3 had ZERO rear leg space. I'm a freak though at 6'4", but still...
Oh! Speaking of freaks, the salesman was a freak. He was a NAZI to be specific. (This is the part that's really worth retelling.)
After the drive I parked the car and we made idle chit chat. We talked about SAAB taking parts from other GM divisions (specifically the Epsilon platform) and also how Audi would be sharing its brilliant new 2 liter with VW. From that discourse he began, "Yeah, I think when SAAB sold to GM somehow they lost something special and were in a way diluted. The same can be said of Volvo when it sold to Ford. At least with Audi it's a German car with German parts built in Germany. It's completely untainted and that says something important. HILE HITLER!"
Ok, ok. So I added the Hitler part, but toward the end of the test run it was definitely the vibe that I was getting from him. Anyway, the man made the German statement and I found myself nervously fumble and mention my mom owned a German engineered Benz. It was a VERY awkward moment.