When it rains…

 It pours and then, glorious sunshine some  through. 🙂 I’m referring to troubles as the rain and the good as sunshine. On Monday, M & I set out for my place of work. We were trundling merrily along the loop or highway when M’s car suddenly stalled and stopped. He couldn’t accelerate and we were at a junction where a feeder road met the dangerous highway. We managed to pull over on some small stretch of land and ended up being flanked by cars doing anywhere from 55 mph to 75mph or more. I was scared, but stuffed down my fear with some yogurt we had bought from McD. I also ate M’s which he graciously ignored as he was puttering around with his car. Moments later, he came to me with the verdict: his acccelerator cable broke. He actually found the little piece that had come off. Well, this was good that we knew what the problem was. Solution: Matt started hunting around for some duct tape or any tape that he had which he actually used to close the gap in the accelerator cable. He had forgotten his phone at home so we had to share mine and I couldn’t help noticing that it was the one morning I hadn’t kvetched at him to bring his phone that this had to happen to us. I started getting uptight because I like getting to work on time. I’ve relaxed on my rigid 8am or before stance and now I try to be there before 8:15am which works because I’ve got some cool bosses.  Anyway, I started calling for a tow truck and M at that time said it would be about $50. It was definitely affordable at that price, but in retrospect, I’m certain the towing fee could have reached up to $200. I started to piss M off and he just focused on doing his thing and wouldn’t you know it, he had that car running with a little bit of duct tape and some righteous anger!! lol. Since Monday, that car has been running on duct tape and we’re waiting on the dealership to have the part in stock. You heard that right. None of the famous car places had this accelerator cable. It’s one of those weird incidents. Anyhow, the good part that also came out this was that M got his blinkers fixed! The part that he had to remove to troubleshoot the accelerator-cable issue was the key to getting this done. For as long as I’ve know M, his blinker lights have not been working. True confession. His car is one of those models that are out of production so it’s been hard to perform routine repairs on it because either the mechanics yank up the price/labor cost for working on the car because of the model or whatever spare part is needed is out of stock. Despite our no-blinkers status, we haven’t had any major issues because M is really a good driver. So we got his blinkers fixed and we’re pretty happy about that.