Sometimes
its just bad luck.. wear blue or not. This happened sometime back (almost
a month now, this blog's celebrated its 1 month Birthday sitting in my drafts
heheh) we were driving home, tired to welcome a fresh week next day. My friend
who was driving trying to turn the heat ON broke my AC/Heat knob. Trying to be
good, I didn't complaint unaware of what my car would be the next day morning when
I'd head for work.
I went home and searched on ebay for the knob, seeing the
discussion forums I found this was a very common problem for everyone with
Lancers. To my disappointment I found that just the knob isn't sold the
whole unit of AC/Heat system has to be bought, a used one would come for 150$
and I didn't even want to look for something new.
Next morning: I went to my car, it was frozen..there was no way I
could drive it like that..without any hesitation I exchanged cars with the guy
who broke the knob, I missed my car..whole day I kept thinking about the
accident I met with sometime in April. I remember how much I cried when we were
taking it for repair after the accident, every part of the dashboard was
literally dangling. Well..its an old story now..car's recovered from all the
injuries I gave.
I started early for home
for I had to repair my car. I was driving and I noticed that the steering was
hard to move, it wouldn't rotate for anything. I pulled over to the side in a
garden/nursery. I had been here earlier. The guy working there opened the hood
for me , we found that one of the belts near the engine was broke. I called one
of my automotive buddies, we discuss all car issues..he told me it was
serpentine belt and if I try driving with it broken I'd break the alternator
belt which'd inturn damage the engine by draining the battery, whatever it was
I didn't want to take any risk.
Sometimes if things like this happen, when I want someone to help,
I take wear my bechaari look(poor look) on face, I remember my friends in high
school saying 'if you say pleaseeee the professor will give you the grace
points and pass you in the weekend exams.' and yes prof used to give me grace
points at times..means my face really worked at times like that. I have tried
this look and it worked more effectively on Americans than Desis...Americans
are light hearted I feel when compared to Indians. So, I went to the owner of
this place and told him what's wrong with the car, trust me I didn't really had
to act very sad in front of this old guy, he was so friendly ..he started
searching for tow trucks without me asking him to. In no time my car was
repaired and I drove home.
I got some planters after few days from the same store..I'll
write about my indoor garden sometime, may be when I grow at least 10
plants..will write from where I got those and how I grew them.
You see I wasn't wearing Blue but still I got a double dhamaka
Offer -khud ki gaadi tudwali aur doosre ki gaadi bhi todh dhi.
My Temperature knob is still not fixed, I might have to get a
complete unit, my mechanic turned the knob to Heat though, absolutely of free
cost, thanks to my bechari look ;)