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July 30, 2002
Tomorrow is anothuh day
When you're standing on the side of 316 in the dark with big truck whooshing by blowing down your safety lights... it makes you think of BAD THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN, which I will not enumerate here.
Suffice it to say that my friends got away without further mishap. And so did we. The details of this MAY be further chronicled in Jenna's Journal. She drove; I looked at our friend's engine while posturing and grunting like a man, which I am. I cannot help this superior feeling I get when my women friends say, "It stopped all at once and it won't start again. I think it ran out of gas."
And I say: "We'll be right there." My chest starts to puff up in the manly way and Jenna grabs the car keys. We head out the door and our car overheats. Wooo! we're supposed to be rescuing people, so we put some more water and antifreeze in the Volvo and head to the rendezvous point.
Our friends Jessica and Sam(antha) are there, so I say, "Never drive on 316!! It's too dangerous!" Then I realize that I am DE FACTO acting my age and need to pull back on the critique.
So, we put the gas in and the car won't start for Jess. I want to try. Doesn't start for me. I sit there trying for about fiften minutes. I say to the ladies, "don't stand between the cars!" I yell paternally. "Move off to the side of the road! Further!"
Then it won't start for the Gwinnette County Policeman (much younger than me) who comes by to check us out.
He and I stand and shine our flashlights on the engine. I say, "I think the solenoid thingy is out or something," quietly, just to him.
He replies softly, "I know absolutely nothing about this stuff." We commiserate as men yards away from "the girls" who are by now giggling and laughing at our macho stuff. I hereby refer you Jenna's Journal for July 30, 2002.
Bye fer now!! (TTFN)
Posted by Thom at July 30, 2002 5:50 PM
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