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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Lessons in driving old cars

If you've driven an old car for more than a year you would know how i feel everytime i drive my old beat-up but loyal nissan sunny. Every you back out of the drive way, you'll get that nagging feeling that the car might just go KA BOOM!!! because her engine after years of running, finally overheats till the point of no return and decides to blow you up to smitherins. right so why am i talking about all blowing up and all, well its because last night while driving home i was suddenly overtaken from the right at breakneck speed by this stupid idiotic moronic psychotic woman driving a waja, which so happens to look like my waja, because she wanted to get to the tunai toll booth on the left while i was going straight to the Touch and GO. So what to do, i have to emergency brake and let her through lah... if not her car will have a huge dent the size of J Lo's big round ass. i BLASTED my horn and my mouth screaming foul languages in all three of my spoken languages. but thats not the reason for this blog. its what happened afterwards. So after letting the insolent woman pass, i started to realize that my car was jerking a lot everytime i slowed down or stop. so this meant that i had to keep my right foot on my accelerator to keep the engine from dying. This however prevented me from using my right foot to press the brake pedal. O_O this happened after the cyberjaya toll and i managed to drive all the way to puchong when my car finally gave up as i HAD to step on the brakes as i was going down a steep hill. so i slid to a stop at the side of the road. I tried to start the car again but to no avail. i even tried pulling that thing under the stering wheel which automatically accelerates the car (those driving auto might not know what i'm talking about) but it came out in my hands (Cha dou). finally i called my dad. while waiting i walked to the nearby coffee shop to have a drink, thinking about whether i should take tomorrow off to get my car fixed. when my father got there we tried starting the engine again and lo and behold it started and it was alright all the way home. When we got home we checked the car and found that there was no coolent in the radiator which caused the engine to overheat thus the jerking and mati engine-ing. so we filled it up with water and hoped that it would be ok the next day. Me being here (at the office) proves that a little water can go a long way. The lesson to learn from this experiencec is to if you're driving an old car, always make sure that the hazard light is working. Nuf said.

1 Comments:

Blogger abel001 said...

You know what i do when that happens? I always pull the handbrake instead of stepping on the brakes so that my right foot is free to step on the accelerator. You should learn from me. muahahaa... u must pull the handbrake from a distant, timing very important... yea, and the hazard lights sometimes can sometimes cannot wan...

ahh.. i miss my old car.. brings back memories... I have not driven in more than a month... miss the sensation...

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