What a crappy week.
On Monday I was driving home from work in my 1997 Mazda Protogé. It was rush hour, and traffic was trundling along at the usual 20-25kph. I was in the far-left lane, riding alongside the cement median barrier, and I happened to have the Dr. Horrible soundtrack blaring as I sang along.
Not so bad right? Well, I was behind an 18-wheeler… and it was slowly meandering towards the aforementioned median. I started to put some distance between us when he started humping the edge of it, and the trailer began to bounce around a little.
No worries, I am alright.
So, as it bounced around a big freakin’ chunk of icy-snow dislodges from underneath the semi and onto the road, right in front of me. I cannot swerve too much to the left or right before I hit it - I am in thick traffic that is tight-packed all around me. As I hit the near 1ft cube chunk of ice my front wheel goes over it without much incident, but as it scrapes underneath my driver’s seat I feel it lift the car up slightly and then my back wheel hits it.
Then I heard a very loud and simultaneous crunch / thud of metal parts. I looked in my rear-view mirror to see if my poor relic of a car lost 3/4 of it’s exhaust system on the highway, only to be greeted by something that just should not be in the back seat of my car.
My rear-wheel’s strut! It was protruding out behind the driver’s side backseat, just beside the speaker.
Well - that’s what I dealt with most of the week. My mechanic is looking at it, he likes aging cars and has a knack for keeping them on the road for cheap. Hopefully he can perform a Hail-Mary and get it running - I don’t think I want to be buying another car right now.
Anyways, enough of my troubles. Any time not spent on the phone, at used car dealers, or groaning at the thought of decommissioning my (likely) junker of a car, here’s what I found online that was interesting to me this past week:
- Game: Monster Evolution
- Game: Shoot the Orange Godzilla
- Dollhouse - FRI FEB 13th | FOX 9/8c
- Stephenie Meyer: Midnight Sun
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