Go ahead Dad,

You get to tell me "I told you so."

My car broke yesterday. Not entirely sure what's wrong with it, but I'm sure taking my car to the track did not help. What really sucked is that it was 11:30 at night at Florin Rd. @ 99. Not exactly the best place to be at the side of the road in the middle of the night.

So basically, I pull away from a light (not at any great speed, just like normal) then I reach for 2nd gear and it wasn't there. So I decided to reach for 3rd gear, it liked 3rd gear just fine so I thought to myself: "huh, must be a linkage problem if I can grab 1st, 3rd, and 5th, but not 2nd, and 4th. So I pull over into a parking lot to see if the linkage problem was just in the area right around the shift nob, but it wasn't. At this point I think, "no big deal, I'll limp it home and take Rebecca's car tomorrow." However, I tried to pull away and now it wont engage any gear. It wont even slot into any gear... I mean, it'll go to where it's always been, but I can just make big ol' circles with the shift nob without having to slot from 1st to neutral to 3rd or anything like that. I told that to the mechanic that our office does a lot of work with, and he agreed with me that it was probably just the linkage, but it also could have been something else and much more expensive... We'll just have to see when I save up enough money to get it looked at. Shan't take too long. And at least the engine is still strong. AND at least I have alternate transportation. This could have sucked a whole lot more.

Oh well... that's life.

"Why do they call him 'Bullet Dodger'?"
"Because he dodges bullets."