by "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
Published 03/05/2017 at 20:06
by "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
Published 03/05/2017 at 20:06
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When I was in the fourth grade, I had to take a music class. I couldn’t stand the class, I couldn’t stand the teacher, and I hated everything involved. Now that I’ve gotten that tidbit out of the way, here is my story:
At the beginning of the second semester, we began to learn to play the recorder(the shitty flute thing that makes an awful noise). Somewhere along the way, the teacher scheduled us to play for the board of education, which annoyed every single fourth grader. It was mandatory, and as a bonus for our annoyance, outside of school. She said she would fail it as an exam, unless we had an excuse. Luck was on my side, we had a Volvo. On the night of the gig, the untrusty, piece of shit 240 made me happy about having it for the first time(and the last). It broke down. I got to skip.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/05/2017 at 20:13, STARS: 19
When I was 20, I went to the party of a friend of a friend of a friend. It was fun, but when I went to leave around midnight, my civic wouldn’t start. I was stranded. The girl whose house the party was at said I could stay the night. I asked where I could sleep, and she said, “With me.” Thank you, Honda.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
03/05/2017 at 20:16, STARS: 1
Junior year oh high school. It was standardized testing week. On that faithful day, science. I didn’t study.
We go out to the car (Now my Accord) and it wouldn’t start.
I managed to take the test at a later date, and I got all my studying in.
"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
03/05/2017 at 20:19, STARS: 2
*goes out and start buying unreliable bikes*
"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
03/05/2017 at 20:19, STARS: 0
Wait, does that end super cheesy or just the morning after?
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/05/2017 at 20:20, STARS: 0
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/05/2017 at 20:22, STARS: 1
S E X
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"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
03/05/2017 at 20:24, STARS: 0
Well the morning after meant one night stand and the other was more along the lines of “and we’ve been married x years” or “and now our first child is on the way.” The internet has made it where I expect one or the other.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/05/2017 at 20:25, STARS: 0
She also made me breakfast the next morning. Great weekend!
"Frenchlicker" (frenchlicker)
03/05/2017 at 20:26, STARS: 0
I had a whole week like that once. Those are very underrated.
"Logansteno: Bought a VW?" (logansteno)
03/05/2017 at 20:35, STARS: 0
I really can’t think of a time one of our cars have broken down and gotten me out of (or into) anything. Come to think of it, the only car that really ever broke down was the Safari and it always broke on the way home from doing something. Typically on only the hottest, most humid days after doing something where you just wanna go home and take a shower and enjoy the AC.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
03/05/2017 at 20:42, STARS: 1
Huh...I don’t think I actually have any of those stories! Surprisingly, all of our rides have been very reliable throughout my life (at least reliable enough they never left us stranded anywhere...)
My Accent has never broken down....it’s had flat tires before, if that counts, but they’ve always conveniently been in my driveway. The closest to ‘breaking down’ it’s done is the coil in the steering column that detects the key chip starting to go a bit wonky so that it would take 3-6 or so tries to get it to start. It still eventually always started though. Coil got replaced under warranty and all has been well since (that was 2 years ago).
As for the Subaru when I had it, the only time it ever ‘broke down’ was when the battery died the night I had bought it when a friend and I were out for a drive in our respective cars. We came out from the grocery store after buying snacks for a movie night get-together with the crew (I was in university at the time) and the Subie wouldn’t start. He had jumpers so we just jumped it and that was that - bought a new battery the next day.
The only other breakdown that DID leave us ‘stranded’ that I can think of was when I was a kid in like 1996 or 1998 or somewhere around then. The fuel pump in our family ‘93 Caravan died on the way home from piano lessons. It DIDN’T leave us stranded in the sense that the thing kept working long enough to get us within 100 meters of the dealership (which was closed that time of day, but at least the van would be there for repairs for the next day) where the pump finally conked out rolling down the slight hill just before it - we rolled into the parking lot of the dealership and parked it and our grandparents who lived about 10 minutes away just came and took us home.
Guess I’ve been lucky? (Or unlucky...***looks at Dr. Z’s post***)
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
03/05/2017 at 20:58, STARS: 1
My old S10 broke down one time when I was at dinner with my brother at a very cool local microbrewery/brick oven pizza. With no driving to do we stayed late and sampled many of their beers. I don’t get to see my brother much, so that was pretty cool. Turned out to be a fuel pump.
"avalonian" (avalonain19)
03/05/2017 at 21:10, STARS: 0
#blessed #collegeishard
"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
03/05/2017 at 21:28, STARS: 1
Not all that exciting, but the motor home broke down at a campground near Sunset Crater (outside of Flagstaff). My mom sent the three of us kids for a hike (12, 11, and 3 at the time) and we climbed to the top of a nearby hill and then realized we couldn’t see the campground anymore. We did find the road and walk back the right way.
I went back to the campground on the Tercel trip and tried to figure out where we went but it looks totally different now.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
03/05/2017 at 21:30, STARS: 4
I don’t know that I ever gained anything actual out of a breakdown. Although one did cement my French prof’s hatred for me. I was easily most competent French speaker in the class, but also the worst student. In my mind the class was a joke (and so was she, but that’s neither here nor there), so I was usually 10-15 minutes late, I didn’t do assignments if I didn’t feel like it (including the term project which I pretty much told her to her face was ridiculous when she insisted I hand something in after the final) etc. So on the way to a midterm (that I’d genuinely forgotten about, I was just headed to class, late as always) I popped a heater hose. So I got out, walked a 1/4-mile to a farm house to borrow a set of pliers to deal with the only remaining factory hose clamp, cut about six inches out of the hose (it was a bit too long to start with), stretched it back on, and proceeded to class, now a solid 50 minutes late. The period was only an hour twenty, so at this point I figured I’d just blow off the class. So I dick around in the FSAE office for ten minutes, bs’ing about something with the tech director, when I get curious as to what I actually was missing, so I pull out the syllabus and what do you know, I’m skipping a midterm. So I mozey on over to the class, walk in the door, the prof mutedly freaks out at me, I ask politely for a test paper cause time’s running out, and sit down and smash out the midterm in 12 minutes, still managing to get out before the end of the period, and am somehow not the last one writing. I got 95% on it. Like I said, the class was a joke. Also I’m a horrible student, but already fluent in French. That prof hated me.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
03/05/2017 at 21:31, STARS: 0
Gotta be the only time a civic has helped a guy out.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
03/05/2017 at 21:32, STARS: 0
Right you are.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
03/05/2017 at 21:37, STARS: 1
A friend of mine had his Suburban die on the freeway. He coasted down the offramp and into a dodge dealership. He traded in the suburban on a new truck and finished the drive home.
"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
03/05/2017 at 21:57, STARS: 0
That’s brilliant.
"daender" (daender)
03/09/2017 at 21:57, STARS: 1
The Miata broke down at autocross once; the Mazda “technician” that did my service (including timing belt) messed up the crankshaft keyway and it eventually caused the Miata to lose power and backfire. It was lucky because it happened an autocross an hour away from home. One week before that I was with my autocrossing friends all the way in NC/TN/VA tearing up the mountain roads for three days. If I had broken down all the way up there, then it could’ve been a lot worse.