"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
07/05/2015 at 23:12 • Filed to: None
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"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
07/05/2015 at 23:12 • Filed to: None | 8
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Before leaving for vacation, I thought it would be a good idea to start up the truck and move it over to the space where I normally park the car. Great idea. The truck hasn’t been started in several weeks, so I thought it might be a bit slow to start. To my surprise, it fired up with little fanfare. This was just a dirty trick. The real surprise was what happened next.
I stepped on the brake and clutch, releasing the parking brake at the same time. When both pedals dropped to the floor and the truck started rolling backwards, I am ashamed to admit I had a moment of panic. I didn’t want to dump the clutch and risk jumping the truck through the garage door, so going for the parking brake was out. I kept pumping the brake in the vain hope of getting some pressure and stopping the truck. I finally dumped the clutch while in first gear to keep from rolling into the neighbor’s yard. I was fortunate there wasn’t any cross traffic.
I went ahead with my plan and drove the truck into the other parking space. Since I had calmed down, it was a relatively simple affair to ease it into place and set the parking brake before rolling backward. But the truck wasn’t through with me yet.
As I got out of the truck, I felt something stabbing me on the finger. It took a moment for the pain to sink in, but once it did, I realized that a wasp had buried its stinger in my finger for the second time. I started shaking my hand to get the wasp off. It took a moment, but the message finally made it to my feet and I made a beeline to the house.
After taking care of the finger, I fetched the wasp spray and worked up the courage to go back outside. I spotted a couple of wasps hanging out at the fender/door gap and I shared a judicious amount of wasp spray with them. I did my best to create the wasp version of Noah’s flood in the gap, but I only had one can of spray. No matter, it took care of the problem.
So now I have an old truck parked in the wrong spot with a dead wasp nest (possibly live ones too) and a faulty brake system just waiting for me to return from vacation. Not what I want to go home to. Beach, anyone?
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/05/2015 at 23:19 |
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I try not to let cars sit because they’ll get mud all over the sofa.
FlimFlamMan
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/05/2015 at 23:22 |
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Better wasps than hornets, but damned to hell those fender gaps.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/05/2015 at 23:31 |
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The wasp nest on the door hinge happened on my dad’s truck. 2 on each side at the same time. It had only been sitting for 2 weeks.
Delta Five Nine
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/06/2015 at 00:08 |
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Had the wasp next thing happen with a junk old Accord I had, except they were in behind the driver’s side mirror. Would have to try to piss them off so they would GTFO and then move the car just to try to work on it on the inside. Eventually got them out with a metric shitload of spray. PITA.