But I found a driver and that's a start

[austin_dern]

My car: I warned about getting ready for the next problems, and they turned up soon enough. My father had said he'd seen something leaking under my tire, and I was really quite annoyed by that, but when I went to Jiffy Lube for an oil change and asked them to look at it they said they didn't see anything. Of course, I specified the rear passenger's tire because that's what my father said, but when I got home and reported this he said that he told me it was under the front of the car and If I Was Satisfied With What Jiffy Lube Said Then He Had Discharged All His Responsibilities In This Matter And It Was All On My Head Now. Is it a wonder I went to live 135 degrees of latitude and 180 degrees longitude away when I had the chance?

Well. A few weeks after this my father reported that now The Neighbors were asking about this leak. So I gave in to him and called the car repair guys he trusts, an hour away, for them to look at and deal with it. I don't like going up for car repairs and really could use other budgetary pressures right now, but, if it's broken I do have to fix it. And they do give pretty good service. And I can use the time while waiting for the car's fixed to read and wonder at new cartoon shows like Johnny Test.

However, there'd be no sitting in the waiting room reading this time. My father needed to go to my brother and his wife's house --- which actually is near there --- and do some home fixings, and he wanted my help, and I couldn't find a graceful way to refuse. So I spent the day at that instead, report to follow. The car repairs --- the transmission gasket was leaking oil or something like that --- came to $150, but they always do (which, admittedly, is a good thing about this place despite its distance). It did take until 4 pm before they were done, though. In fact, it was noon before they had a diagnosis. Usually I'm out of there by 1 pm. Maybe it's better if I do sit in the waiting room, reading.

Trivia: The word ``pay'', as in to do with a salary, derives from the Latin `pacare', meaning to pacify; in the Middle Ages specifically in the meaning `to pacify a creditor by paying a debt'. Source: Webster's Dictionary Of Word Origins, Editor Frederick C Mish.

Currently Reading: The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Debby Applegate.

Comments

[moxie_man]

$150 for the tranny gasket is reasonable. Especially when compared to what would happen if you had continued to ignore it long enough--replacement of the tranny. :)

Been there done that twice--used transmissions and the first one wasn't that great a one. That was oh...20 years ago on my first car.

I've friended you simply 'cause of bunny_hugger. If you ever want to read on real auto repair 'fun', you're welcome to search through my LJ for posts about my current vehicle, the Stealth Lemon (tag: car, though I don't always remember to put in the tag).

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Certainly better than replacing a transmission. I'm not sure how critical it was, given that we weren't even able to be that positive it was leaking, and the car folks needed to check with me on the phone that it was something up near the front I was looking for.

And I'm very happy to have you here, thank you. I hope I stay interesting enough to read.

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

moxie_man is part of the old-time devilbunnies crowd. Mostly on the squirrel side of things. >:) He probably doesn't know this, but one of his characters, Aldin Busheytail, is memorialized on Spindizzy MUCK with a statue in Squirrel City. Of course, Aldin is also the namesake of Squirrel City's Busheytail Street.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes, I do know the name, both names. I thought I'd seen you two chatting over devilbunny concerns too.