Momma didn t raise no quitter12/31/2023 ![]() With the threads stripped, there was no way for me to screw in the final spark plug. I felt the steak dinner spin freely out of my future. I turned it again, and again the ratchet, extensions, socket, and plug all together spun free as the wind. I tried turning the ratchet again, and it just spun freely in place. There was resistance, and then a sudden release of tension. I thought to myself, “I’m about to drive myself straight to a steak dinner.” I stuck the new one in the socket and dropped the whole apparatus back down into the now empty cylinder. Too easy!Ĭlickety clickety clickety clickety clickety, I spun the plug right out of the hole. ![]() I tentatively gave the whole ratchet assembly a twist, and boom, smooth as butter, somewhere down in that shaft the spark plug yielded. I felt the socket come firmly to a stop around the top of the spark plug. With the spark plug socket firmly in place on the end, I carefully weaved the whole apparatus around every obstacle and down into the shaft, where that eighth spark plug waited patiently for removal. I stuck four different extensions on my trusty ratchet, turning it into an unwieldy, snake-like chain of tools. It was under a lot of awkwardly placed things, to be totally frank. I set my eyes on the eighth and final plug, way down deep in the back of the engine bay. I couldn’t believe some sucker somewhere was coughing up $700 for this. I chuckled triumphantly and kept on wrenching. Steak dinner tonight? Champagne? I kept whistling. Wrenching away, I started thinking about my six hundred greenbacks, safe and sound in the pocket of my jeans. I was hunting eight worn-out spark plugs and I was saving over six hundred bucks. Twenty minutes later, I was elbow deep in the engine, whistling a fine tune while I removed the air intake and a few other things in between me and my prey. Hah! Booyah! I grinned huge, despite the suspicious glance it earned me from the guy at the register. I slapped eight brand spankin’ new spark plugs on the counter, and to my glee, the total came out to a mere fifty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. I drove over the hill to the Advanced Autoparts on Greensprings, a hectic five-lane highway about two miles from my house. Seven hundred dollars? All you have to do is screw them in!Īfter calling around and receiving no less than five equally astronomical estimates, I cursed the mechanic profession, the labor shortage, each specific shop in my town, and even my poor old van. I said the word “Ridiculous” under my breath. I let the man know I wasn’t interested in his services and hung up the phone. I don’t know about you, but there wasn’t a snowflake’s chance in hell I was gonna pay $700 just to have some teenager at Firestone unscrew eight spark plugs and then screw in eight new ones. Are you bringing it in today? If so you better get down here in the next hour or we ain’t gonna get it done ‘til the end of the week.” The phone line was quiet for a moment, and then a very clearly impatient, gruff kind of voice huffed back. My hand is getting sore from administering "Positive reinforcement", so I decided to finish up the quests here asap and leave those vile worgen to fend for themselves.“Seven HUNDRED dollars? For some spark plugs?” So again needed a educating, which he got. Just one more thing to do in my search for the elusive ring I am actually after Windrunner Band.Īpparently, Korok came back out to play and started pitching boulders again. *cough-dead-cough* I looted Korok's Second Head Once I had him "convinced" of the errors of his ways. (draws my finger across my through "schleeeeeechhhhhh") I took it upon myself to teach him some manners and persuade him to stop tossing big boulders. along comes this big sassy etin Korok the Colossus and starts pitching huge boulders at me, while I am innocently slaughtering worgen! The NERVE! Of course, no self respecting rogue will put up with this crap! I figured he needed to be taught some manners. I turned my xp off while getting gear items but anyway. Break in Communications: Rutsak's GuardĬomment by gbalkamSo here I was, running around doing these quest (the entire chain in the zone) and got to this part on my lv 16 rogue.Break in Communications: Dreadwatch Outpost.
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