I really know nothing about cars.. it's actually kind of pathetic. You think that by now I might have picked up on a few more things but sadly I haven't. I blame it on my dad because he's always done everything for me. It started way back when I got my learners and my first car, my dad always filled up my gas for me but then one day I had to do it myself. This is embarrassing but I'll tell you anyways I couldn't figure out how to open my gas tank but to give myself some credit it was an older car so there was no button inside the car that would pop it open and I didn't see that I had to use a key to open it so there I was stumped and to embarrassed to ask anyone at the gas station so I called up my friend Katie and she came to the rescue. That was the first of many embarrassing car stories but I'll skip forward to the recent events that inspired this post.
When we got back from St. George/Vegas last month I got in my car to drive to work but as I started to drive my car started jerking accompanied by this awful scrapping noise and I quickly realized that my tire was blown out. How did I not see it as I walked up to my car? and how did this happen? I'm not sure, maybe someone was mad I took the good parking spot and slashed my tires. Anyways that's not even the worst part of this story..So I call up my dad because that's what I do when I have car/any fixing problem, and I tell him what happened then I ask him "Where is my spare tire anyways? I looked in the trunk but it wasn't there..." If you are not aware of the car I drive let me just tell you my spare tire is attached to the back of my car, which means in order to 'look' for the mystery spare tire in the 'trunk' I had to go to the back of my car and open it. Genius I know and I'm about to graduate college, really? I still get made fun of on a weekly basis for that one.
Next was today, this one isn't quite as embarrassing as the previous but still. So yesterday I noticed that my oil light kept flashing at me and I thought that I should probably do something about that. So of course I called up my dad and he told me to stop at a gas station and buy some oil for my engine and then gave me instructions on what to do. I thought it sounded simple enough so I got the oil and after I got to my mom's store ( which I'm watching while she is gone, more on that later) I decided to give it a try. Well I didn't get very far before I got stuck. I'm sure you all know that in order to put oil in your car you have to open the hood, don't worry I knew it too, however after I pulled the lever that pops it open I couldn't figure out how to unlatch it. I got down so I could look at it and I saw the latch but still my attempts failed so I called up my dad again and sure enough I got it to open I don't know how I didn't figure that one out on my own. Next I thought ok the rest of this is going to be easy I found where I had to pour the oil no problem so I try to unscrew it 'Lefty Loosey' I thought to myself(works every time) I got out a rag cuz it was a little warm, but I guess I haven't been hitting the gym hard enough because I could not get that thing to budge! I keep trying and I'm on the phone with my dad the whole time cuz really lets be honest I probably would've had to call him again anyways so why waste the time. As I keep failing he tells me to go find a guy to help me and as he's telling me this like magic a greek god pulls into the parking lot (seriously this guy was a hottie) and starts walking over, so I hang up the phone and tell him my problem. I wish I could say that he had a hard time opening the cap too..but he didn't ( I loosened it for him right?) anyways he puts in the oil and checks it and tells me I need another bottle.. whoops I only got one so I'll have to tackle that challenge on my way home, but don't worry he made sure to loosened the cap enough so I could do it myself :) After he's done he tells me he's a mechanic, how much more perfect could that have been, someone up there is lookin' out for me.
Anyways, even though I am pretty car illiterate I'm slowly learning and at least I can get a good chuckle out of it every now and then.
