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After updating and visiting my site and seeing that Rachel left a message for me to update, ohh, about 2 weeks ago, I decided that I would start my chain of updates tonight. At the end of my updates in a few days, I may try the 100 things thing that Rachel did, but that's a ways off, so we'll see. The subject for tonight: my car.
So you may be wondering about why my car gets to be a subject. It's because I've decided that I should perhaps not be allowed to be on the road. On top of that, I should know more about cars because I own one. So, about 2 weeks ago (on the day that Rachel left her message for me to update, actually), I managed to get into 2, yes 2, car accidents in one day. Basically, I was in a big hurry, trying to leave for Rochester, and too many things were going on at once and all this nonsense. I was driving up to Risley from my lovely apartment on Stewart Ave., went to make a left turn, and got rear-ended. It was a Friday, on the Cornell campus, at around 4:30pm, when it was raining. Since I've always suspected that eventually I would get into a car accident in Ithaca (though I always figured it would be in Collegetown and I'd hit a person), this shouldn't have surprised me. Turns out that the guy who hit my car is Crystal's boss at CUEMS, and luckily, there was no damage. So no police report was filed, and I carried on my merry way to go and get Demetri. I was not happy,though, and as some of you may know, when I'm not happy, I talk. A lot. Very fast. So, driving back to my apartment (hecause of course I did not remember everything I needed), I pointed to Demetri where accident #1 occured (at this time, there had only been one accident). Luck would have it that I was going around a bend at that time, though, and right there, a car was parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant and I was not expecting it to be there and I wound up hitting it. I take that road almost everyday - I know it so well, and yet, of course there'd be someone there just when I needed there to not be someone there. This time there was damage, to both cars. The guy, a member of the marching band, was kind enough to not call the police, but I was fairly devasted at the damage to my bumper. At least no suspended license this time. I still drove to Rochester, though, and had a good time. My car must hate me, though.
So,while I don't think that I hit the car hard enough to cause mechanical damage, now my car makes some sort of noice. Thankfully I'm not crazy, and other people have noticed said noise as well. Herb was kind enough to take my poor little car to have an oil change earlier in the week, and he talked to the mechanic there about it. He reported to me that it might be a loose lifter, but of course I have no idea what that means. This is why I should know more about cars. How can one own something that costs more than 10 grand, and no virtually nothing about it, other than how to read the odometer, gas meter and rpms? Ohh, and I know what about 3 of my gears do (those being Park, Reverse and Drive). And I know that a little light comes on when the overdrive is turned off, so I always leave it on. That's about it. It was so nice when my car was new, but now it's not so new and I actually have to worry about stuff other than, how am I going to make my car payment. I guess I should be lucky that I have a car that thus far has given me little to no trouble, and that really, there's so little wrong with my car that I thought nothing of driving it 250 miles to Princeton, but now I've become spoiled. Same thing with my cell phone, I guess (side note: my cell phone got run over by a car on Monday, and I can't live without it to the point where I had to go and buy a new one first thing Tuesday, it was sad). I should do one of two things - either read up on cars, find out how they work, etc.... or give up my technological luxuries and be content in the fact that I don't have to worry about any of that.
All right, I'm done with my car update - between my accidents and my windshield wipers and driving in NJ, I don't think I want to drive all that much anymore.
- Lizzardie, at 2:14 AM
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