An Illustrious Start!!

[aggienaut]

   Brought the car to the shop this morning to make sure it wasn't about to explode.

   Turns out it was. Will be at the mechanic till around noon.

   Now our local mechanic.. its a special place. If you go in, you should pretty much expect to receive a serious sassing. Or this morning I had a long "is he ignoring me? ... this is awkward" moment but he was just thinking or looking stuff up and suddenly had answers for all my questions. Usually its more of just friendly teasing or a sparring of wits though.

   This "Worst Service Ever" review really cracks me up. I can certainly understand that customers shock and frustration, but once you get used to how things are its endearing. And we trust him, and I'd much rather get sassed than have a shady mechanic trying to pull things on me. (note the rave reviews following the one bad one)

   So yeah my car is there until noon. It wasn't really about to blow up, but they gave me a loaner pickup that I think IS about to blow up. Good thing I only needed to drive down the block and back.


Picture of the Day

Drone bees, the only males in the hive, are slightly bigger than workers and can be best distinguished by their huge googly eyes. It looks like they're wearing those god-aweful huge sunglasses girls like to wear, you know the ones that can make any girl look not-attractive? Anyway, there are three obvious drones in this picture. See if you can spot them!

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

heh! "serious sassing" is an appropriate description!

what was wrong with the van?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

In addition to something minor with the AC and the power socket, there was something relating to a vacuum belt hose or tube?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

On each of my last two cross-country roadtrips I first took my car (two different cars) to a mechanic for an inspection, to determine whether it was ready for the journey.

On the first trip, my radiator burst about 10 miles later.

On the second trip, the clutch failed 211 miles into the trip.

It's a good thing to do, of course. But most of these things you can't see coming.

[guabili.livejournal.com]

i call one two and wild card



oh and too much free time at work

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[ajsmoothcrow.livejournal.com]

There are five if you look at the wing formation and the broad thorax

Find the Drone

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hhaha yes correct goodwork. gold star for you! (=

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yeah the four labelled by my friend Gabi above and then a fifth with just the abdomen showing in the upper left no?