percussive maintenance

[mistressindi]

Last week I went with bleukarma to tour some tall ships. It was fun, there was a ton of rope, and I took a folder full of pictures I haven't sorted yet. But I'm not going to talk about that, here. I just want to tell you something small that happened afterwards

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[glitterberrys]

I seriously miss pummeling the crap out of my grandparents' giant-sized particle board television set when the picture went out.

[mistressindi]

Oh, the things that could be fixed with a solid smack...

The stove in the house where I grew up was made during the late sixties or early seventies. It was rust-orange and the contacts where the coils plugged into the wiring were gummed-up with age. Before cooking anything, you first had to hit the coil you wanted to use a few times with a frying pan. (The front left was the worst offender at this - it's also the one I burnt my hand on, once).

Any and all televisions with dials. WHACK. THUMP. SMACK. POW. But not the gargantuous ones kept inside giant wooden boxes, because you'd just crack a bone and the TV wouldn't register the contact.

My old car, where the ignition lock wouldn't let me turn it off unless it was in park, also had gummy connectors and did not always register being in park when it was. I still hit gearshifts with the heel of my hand after I slot the thing into place. Slide-slide-pop.

[glitterberrys]

You definitely couldn't use your hand on that wooden thing. It took a few kicks to get it working proper again. And that damn thing was still working last time I saw it. Meanwhile, our five year old TV set is already breaking down.

[mistressindi]

(oh, and the time we got stranded in my mom's Subaru POS at an all-night Wal-Mart at stupid o'clock and the goddamn solenoid wouldn't spark and then Terri delivered a mighty kick to the dashboard and suddenly the thing WORKED... and how the driver's side sunshade kept falling down and I had to stab it into the ceiling with a bent-out paper clip)

[onthefloor]

The quote at the end. I love you so hard for that. XD

[mistressindi]

There is never a bad time for a Good Omens quote!