Dec. 28, 2005 - How Come Things Don't Vibrate IN?
So this one time I'm beating it down the highway when 'paaf' everything died. I rolled to, and then down, an off ramp, around the corner and into a handy 'future home of Costco'. I got out and popped the hood and lifted the deck. Everything looked okay. At this point I think a higher power intervened because I decided to snap the cover off the forward relay and fuse box - and into the trunk dropped the now liberated cylindrical fuel pump relay which, despite several prongs, had vibrated it's red butt out of a whole bunch of holes and let me down, starving the engine of fuel and causing the whole 'paaf' thing. Just as the red miscreant was rolling across the carpet, and at this point I had been in trouble for all of two minutes, up rolled a shark (independent prowling tow truck - you know the kind). "Hey buddy", the shark pilot said with a carefully arranged look of sincere concern plastered onto his face, "you need a tow?" I explained about the fuel relay and that I was certain all was well and so, looking glum, he rolled on in search of his next meal. Of course, if I was him, I would at least have waited until the car actually restarted. In any case, I escaped a few hundred dollar tow bill by about 15 seconds. Thankfully the car started up right away but I soon had a vague worring sensation in the pit of my stomach and couldn't help but wonder what else was vibrating loose. Blasted difficult fuel relay.It's enough to give you indigestion. The kind without gas.
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