19 December 2020

Transmission of Morals in a 78 Toyota Corolla

Bad

I had some VHS tapes to return from whence they had been rented. This action required a short drive and before I had travelled very far a blizzard started. Wind raced and snow erased, bluster and noise enveloped. An attempt to crest a small hill betwixt my home and the rental place was met with failure and a friendly chap with an impressive truck and all manner of perpetration at the nadir of the hill. We discussed my voyage and return home, late fees be damned.

โ€œIf you need to stop, use your transmission.โ€

โ€œOh yeahโ€ I remember replying, not understanding what all of that meant. As with many things not understood, time sorts it out.

In front of the Dennyโ€™s restaurant, a large a American vehicle before me, slowed to turn, Foot, breaks and slid, with a bang into this giant car. We stop and on emerging from my car to chat with the bloke, my shoulder long hair horizontal in the wind, comfortable shorts flapping like a flag.

A short, fat man emerged from the land boat and he introduced himself with.

โ€œWHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?โ€

He calmed down, when on inspection, my collision only bumped some snow off his bumper. Then the friendly, prepared chap in his 4x4, pulled up behind me, leaning into the wind.

โ€œWhy didnโ€™t you break with your transmission?โ€

Good

Fraser asked for a ride to the college and I obliged, as we were passing a side entrance to the campus on the way to the main entrance, he intoned, โ€œI meant that one.โ€

In a quick set of operations, I stomped the break, shifted from 3rd to 2nd while cranking my wheel over. The vehicle ground to an instant plunging halt, roaring and then squirted into the desired entrance with a clatter.

And while I was prepared for the actions that the car performed, Fraser was not, and was appropriately laminated to the passenger side door screaming.


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