oh, melvin
Well, I haven't posted anything in forever, so I thought I'd write about my weekend. It was pretty uneventful, except for Melving breaking down.... again. -sigh- What am I going to do with him, that little rascal? The young group girls met at te church to go shopping on Saturday afternoon for the Angel Tree at Eastland Mall. I pulled into the parking lot, up to my spot, and he died. And wouldn't turn on.
So I had to leave him there all day and all night. The next morning somebody plowed the church parking lot and created a little box of snow around him. This is him, all scared and cold without me being able to drive him. We both had a pretty rough night Saturday night away from eachother.
However, Josh and Christopher scooped sidewalks Sunday morning and left me a little happy snowman and Hi Nat on my rear window. So that made things a little better. Hopefully, Melvin will return to full working order soon.
Boxed In
My little snowman and sign from the Stoller boys
posted by natz at 4:54 PM
17 Comments:
melvin melvin melvin, I told him to take good care of you, but he keeps not being a good little neon. hes got age, but the beauty is still there. He'll be up back on his feet in no time. He's done it so many times he's a pro!!!
There is one of two things wrong with your car. Either fill the blinker fluid or rotate the exhaust bearings. Long live Melvin!!!???
Natalie,
you're car always puts things into perspective for me. I always want to focus on the go and what's going on, but I never really develop a relationship with them. In fact, I'm quick to leave them behind. You're truly a car "lover". Weird...
Oh and Joel, theirs a few more posibilies, check the roadery girder, or the spritzer valve, those spritzer valves always clog when it gets cold. LLM!
o yea, on the exhaust bearings, normally those only go out if the booster carriage is riding a little low. and does blinker fluid really have to do with a car not starting, I always thought that's what slowed down the blinkers. I hate people using low weight blinker fluid (5W 40 is maded for engines, not blinkers people!), you need to put some 80W-90 weight gear oil in those blinker fluid bins, that'll slow those suckers down;)
Ok, update. Jeremy fixed him last night... said it was a blown fuse or something. But then when my mom tried to drive him down to me in Bloomington today, he died four blocks later. Those of you from Gridley may have seen him today on the corner of Seventh and Center. Poor little guy. He's so scared.
And me and Kelsey were wondering... is there really such a thing as blinker fluid?
You females would be walking if it wasn't for us males being able to fix your cars. Of course there is such a thing as blinker fluid. Im amazed you even know how to put gas in your car. :)
Nat...don't listen to them...they are trying to trick you. There is NO such thing as blinker fluid. It's like this huge joke people (mostly guys) like to play on clueless helpless people (mostly girls) I promise there is NO SUCH THING AS BLINKER FLUID. Love ya!
joel and wiegs, i don't know WHAT you guys are talking about w/ this blinker light fluid. i fillde melvin up the last time i was @ natz's (forgot to tell you, sorry dear!) it's probably just her timing belt that needs to be oiled. how could you guys NOT think of that one!? (OR har battery, that might need to washed off pretty soon. it was pretty dirty when we popped her hood in purdue!) :) i love you natz!! i can't WAIT to see you tomorrow!!
Grr... I hate it when guys do that. Try to trick me into thinking something when I really have no idea about the topic. And then I end up feeling even more clueless. But, I really am car-dumb. I know nothing about them and really have no desire to either.
okay, we know when to end a joke. But in all reality, do check the exhaust bearings, I'm at the shack and that sounds pretty probable if it broke down so quickly. They probably blew the fuse again.
You cracked my code.
There is such a thing as blinker fluid, seeing as blinkers operate on electricity, and electric currents have electromagnetic fields that flow fluidly. Don't feel dumb, Nat. Advanced Calculus is on your side. Advanced Calculus is there to pick you up when Melvin lets you down. When the world is against you, and everything is dark, and there is poop upon your head, run your fingers over a few pages of Advanced Calculus and it'll make it all better.
Thanks, Kup. For the encouraging words. I've never thought of me and Advanced Caluculus on the same side. In fact, all math has always been opposed to me for some reason.
Don't thank me; thank Gauss. Divergence is one of his brainchildren.
I could swear (oops) affirm that I felt the booster carriage dragging a bit when Mel & I went for that extended road trip to Bloomington the other month. Of course, your cap and rotor just might need to be turned, which is pretty easy once you get the break pads off.
Math is not the enemy.
I am going to London for a week, Munich for four days and Heidelberg for three. I am going to spend hundreds of dollars at the British Museum, the British Library, the Glyptothek in Munich, and at antique bookstores, see many sights, visit some German universities, and come back with hundreds of pictures.
Ich habe vor, mein Herz in Heidelberg zu verloren.
I quit snowboarding after my second permanent spinal injury, so I have to go somewhere. Always wanted to go to Germany.
Personally, I left my heart in Munich. Much prettier in the south.
sigh, i enjoy reading about melvin. often times people accuse me of having a love affair with my car, but i truly havnt because i havnt named her yet. she sits in my garage and i am always takin her apart and tryin to figure out how to make her better then before.
its ok nat. i like melvin, most of all i like reading about your emotional attachment to him. it makes me feel less strange for being sorta the same way.
long live melvin
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