It was a nice day today so I decided to take the E30 out for a ride (since I had not driven it all week) and I was about to make a left turn from the "left only" lane when I started smelling anitfreeze and saw a big cloud of steam come up through the hood. The temp needle was pegged hard into the red zone so I shut the car off to see what happened. Sure enough the lower radiator hose burst and sprayed coolant all over the engine! No problem. I decided to let the car cool down and then I would be able to run it just long enough to get the car across the street and into the parking lot. Now.. here we go-
Supid people incident #1- When the left blinker is on, that indicates that I am making a left turn, right? RIGHT. And the same is true for the right blinker. But apparently people don't understand what it means when BOTH blinkers are on at the same time. I turned on my hazzards while waiting for the car to cool down but sure enough people started stacking up behind me waiting for the light to change. The light turned green and the people behind me started blowing their horn. Some people were intelligent enough to get the idea and they politely drove around me but there were plenty of bone heads who drove up right behind me and waited while it didn't occur to them that I had my HAZARD lights on! One fool even blew his horn for a minute continously while behind me and then he drove around me and stopped beside me while leaning on his horn. So I smiled and waved to the guy and said, "Hey, Steve! Long time no see!" as if I thought the guy was one of my friends.
So finally I am brave enough to start the car and drive it into the shopping center parking lot, I find a good space away from everyone else and layed out on the ground to see if I can just stick a splicer in the hose and get on down the road. (I always keep a hose repair kit for situations like this) and because it was more of a split than a hole in the hose, I had to cut out a 1-inch section in order to make a good repair. I had to pull the hose a little bit in order to get it to fit on the nipple so I was under the car wrestling with it for a little while. This leads to the next 2 stupid people incidents.
Here I am laying on the ground; The E30 in one space, my legs extending out to the adjacent space- Some fat cow of a woman drives up to me and starts blowing her horn. I ignore her until she gets out of the car and says, "Excuse me sir, could you slide out of the way so I can park here?" Now there are over 300 spaces in this parking lot, and less than half of them are full. WHY MUST SHE PARK NEXT TO ME? So I really wanted to tell her off but her kids were in the car and what I had to say would have been too inappropriate. So I politely explained to her that I had a major mechanical breakdown and then she was more understanding.
Not long after that, another fat cow woman comes along asking me for directions. I say, "Not right now, I got my hands full" but then she got beligerant and demanded, "why won't you help me?!" I guess it didn't occur to her that having my arms buried up to the elbows in my e30 made it not a very good time to ask for directions.
Supid people incident #1- When the left blinker is on, that indicates that I am making a left turn, right? RIGHT. And the same is true for the right blinker. But apparently people don't understand what it means when BOTH blinkers are on at the same time. I turned on my hazzards while waiting for the car to cool down but sure enough people started stacking up behind me waiting for the light to change. The light turned green and the people behind me started blowing their horn. Some people were intelligent enough to get the idea and they politely drove around me but there were plenty of bone heads who drove up right behind me and waited while it didn't occur to them that I had my HAZARD lights on! One fool even blew his horn for a minute continously while behind me and then he drove around me and stopped beside me while leaning on his horn. So I smiled and waved to the guy and said, "Hey, Steve! Long time no see!" as if I thought the guy was one of my friends.
So finally I am brave enough to start the car and drive it into the shopping center parking lot, I find a good space away from everyone else and layed out on the ground to see if I can just stick a splicer in the hose and get on down the road. (I always keep a hose repair kit for situations like this) and because it was more of a split than a hole in the hose, I had to cut out a 1-inch section in order to make a good repair. I had to pull the hose a little bit in order to get it to fit on the nipple so I was under the car wrestling with it for a little while. This leads to the next 2 stupid people incidents.
Here I am laying on the ground; The E30 in one space, my legs extending out to the adjacent space- Some fat cow of a woman drives up to me and starts blowing her horn. I ignore her until she gets out of the car and says, "Excuse me sir, could you slide out of the way so I can park here?" Now there are over 300 spaces in this parking lot, and less than half of them are full. WHY MUST SHE PARK NEXT TO ME? So I really wanted to tell her off but her kids were in the car and what I had to say would have been too inappropriate. So I politely explained to her that I had a major mechanical breakdown and then she was more understanding.
Not long after that, another fat cow woman comes along asking me for directions. I say, "Not right now, I got my hands full" but then she got beligerant and demanded, "why won't you help me?!" I guess it didn't occur to her that having my arms buried up to the elbows in my e30 made it not a very good time to ask for directions.
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