so, we don't need this at all
Feb. 5th, 2008 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxAdam and I were on the highway almost home, and the car began making a very bad noise. A boom, and a rattle, and a shake, and more rattling, metal banging high speed against metal, under the hood. My husband, determined, drove the little white Neon Espresso (affectionately named Ghost) into Gaithersburg, into the parking lot of the Walnut Hill shopping center, where his mother's flower shop used to be, now an international jeweler's. We got out of the car and opened the hood. A sparkplug was missing. It appeared to just shoot out, and we can hope the entire plug is missing and not half, because if the other half is still in the engine, that's a problem.
Adam called our mechanic friend, Joey, and had a talk. Then he called Billy. Billy came and picked us up and took us back to our house. Later on, Joey came over with Adam's big green van, which had been at Joey's shop for a few months having work done. Adam can drive the van until the white car is fixed, and then Joey can take the van back and finish the repairs.
Joey's coworker, Scott, will be picking up the Neon with a tow truck. Adam and Joey just left to meet him. Joey will take a look tomorrow and hopefully everything will be all right.
We are hoping it's just the sparkplug. Joey assures us that he can get her up and running and purring. Because at worse, Adam will need a new old car. And we don't want to let Ghost go, not yet, she's only ten years old.
Adam's boss owes him four thousand dollars due to some issues with past paychecks not having the right about of money; and worse came to worse, Adam can ask his boss for help in buying another car. But we can hope it doesn't come to that, you know? We can use that money for barter for an electrician, or other house repairs. I'm crossing my fingers.
Cross your fingers for Ghost, please?
I'm eating leftover Chinese food and staying calm.
It's really good Chinese food. Basil chicken with sauteed mushrooms in a spicy brown sauce, and vegetable lo mein. I'm not really hungry but the food is delicious.
Adam called our mechanic friend, Joey, and had a talk. Then he called Billy. Billy came and picked us up and took us back to our house. Later on, Joey came over with Adam's big green van, which had been at Joey's shop for a few months having work done. Adam can drive the van until the white car is fixed, and then Joey can take the van back and finish the repairs.
Joey's coworker, Scott, will be picking up the Neon with a tow truck. Adam and Joey just left to meet him. Joey will take a look tomorrow and hopefully everything will be all right.
We are hoping it's just the sparkplug. Joey assures us that he can get her up and running and purring. Because at worse, Adam will need a new old car. And we don't want to let Ghost go, not yet, she's only ten years old.
Adam's boss owes him four thousand dollars due to some issues with past paychecks not having the right about of money; and worse came to worse, Adam can ask his boss for help in buying another car. But we can hope it doesn't come to that, you know? We can use that money for barter for an electrician, or other house repairs. I'm crossing my fingers.
Cross your fingers for Ghost, please?
I'm eating leftover Chinese food and staying calm.
It's really good Chinese food. Basil chicken with sauteed mushrooms in a spicy brown sauce, and vegetable lo mein. I'm not really hungry but the food is delicious.
