Always an event 9.04
Written September 17, 2004
…it’s a story about truth, justice, lotion and pennies..
(really it’s not as exciting as all that..)
**picture this**
It’s 1:00 am
It’s dark- scary- rustling in the trees, perhaps bears?
I had borrowed my moms car.. and i was just about to return the car.
I get into the car.. and i notice the light in the shift panel is still out..
highly irratating.. right?
so i smack it with my lotion bottle- (as any sane person would do in that situation, right?)
annnnnnd… nothing happened.. cause it wasn’t the fuse broken..
(but i’d learn that out later on..)
so i smacked it with my lotion bottle… and the whole inside imploded into the center island/shift gear area
and i was like.. hmm.. if arnault sees this at 5 in the morning on his way to work, he will literary shoot me
soo..
WWDD?
What would Debbie Do?
Well, of course i disassembled it!
Anyone who knows me knows I’d do that! 
So apart came the dash board..the shift area.. cause its all connected together-so there are steps you hafta take to disassemble it.
So there’s the whole sa-bang- lying in various areas of the car.
and i spent about an hour and a half re constructing the inside.. putting a massive puzzle back together
Annnd so i got the lights working again and it’s all put together
and then i tried to fit the cup holder/ cig lighter plate type thing back in place
but the last mechanic working on the car was lazy so he shoved it in wrong, so i had to unplug the lighter/ adapter thingy to put it back in properly
(doing this all with the car on, cause i needed the lights)
so now i’m messing with active electricity
so i tried to unplug it.. but it was stuck. so i yanked it and a penny that was in the cup holder flew INTO the adapter port
ZAP! HUGE mo fo light show
so I was quickly motivated to work harder at disconnecting the plug
I unplugged it and got the penny out
but when it zapped it musta thrown this little bit of metal out of the socket
and so once I unplugged it and replugged it back in, it was no longer active -cause you need three metal slip covers for inside the plug and now there are only two..
but that’s an easy enough fix …
(And it was only after the fact that I found out I could’ve short-circutied the entire car with that spark-Oops! my bad…)
Hey, what do I know about cars?
Ah, the life of Debbie- never a dull moment.
Debbie* working hard for over 21 years to make things harder than they need to be*
2 years ago