Minor Confession Thread

I have access to a cheap subaru brat. Cheap, cheap. It has no glass, motor is shot, rust is a thing, and probably 20 years since it has moved at all under any power. I should say no. I know better. It is a bad idea. But challenge.... I have a problem.

i hate reading post-challenge "how to make the challenge better" threads.

barefootskater said:

I have access to a cheap subaru brat. Cheap, cheap. It has no glass, motor is shot, rust is a thing, and probably 20 years since it has moved at all under any power. I should say no. I know better. It is a bad idea. But challenge.... I have a problem.

I'm pretty sure the only problem is that you're not already working on it  

In reply to sleepyhead :

A buddy and I took the "sweep everything off the counter into the top drawer" approach to cleaning the garage today. There's enough room for my car in there now. Now to put it in there...

The bad thoughts have returned.

In reply to Appleseed :

One day at a time, friend. I am here if you need to talk, shoot me a PM. 

Thanks. PMs don't work, because of Yahoo,  but no worries, saying stuff like that is catharsis. As soon as it's off my chest and out there I start feeling better. This crap happens every fall. I'm surprised it took this long to show up. I'll live.

Two days ago I got rid of my last electric guitar. It was what I had always wanted when I was younger, a 1996 Gibson LP Studio with EMGs. It was my last after I thinned the heard, the one I'd never let go. I don't think I'd had it out of its case in 6 months, and I don't own an amp anyway. I gave it away, literally, to a good home. I feel like I should be more upset than I am.

I firmly believe that everyone on this planet, on some level, enjoys Hall & Oates

Every once in a while I'll get stuck behind a car that stinks of burning oil, a slipping clutch, leaking coolant or overheated drum brakes, and it makes me nostalgic for the days when I drove much crappier vehicles.

Woody said:

Every once in a while I'll get stuck behind a car that stinks of burning oil, a slipping clutch, leaking coolant or overheated drum brakes, and it makes me nostalgic for the days when I drove much crappier vehicles.

You should have said something, I would have been happy to let you drive her down memory lane.

Woody said:

Every once in a while I'll get stuck behind a car that stinks of burning oil, a slipping clutch, leaking coolant or overheated drum brakes, and it makes me nostalgic for the days when I drove much crappier vehicles.

Had a recent conversation with a co-worker: 

Him: I cannot seem to figure out where the oil leak on my Subaru is coming from. But I smell burning oil and its driving me nuts.

Me: Yeah, my Subaru has an oil leak but I know where it's coming from.

Him: Where?

Me: Oh, everywhere. Valve covers, head gaskets, oil pan. I'm not going to fix it. But I do know where it is.

NickD said:

I firmly believe that everyone on this planet, on some level, enjoys Hall & Oates

Of course. But I more enjoy Garfunkel & Oates.

My ranger is really slow but the exhaust is obnoxiously loud above 3k and I enjoy revving it at random times. 

Sometimes, I feel like being an adult is faking it until something works and then trying not to act completely surprised by it not turning out to be a colossal disaster.

In reply to stanger_missle :

As a young adult, this post makes me feel slightly better about myself.

In reply to dculberson :

I’ll never think of go-carts the same way again thanks to them. 

The company car has an intermittently slipping transmission. I have reported it multiple times and even had it looked at a few and nobody's willing to pay to have it fixed. They all claimed there's not a problem. The confession is that I have stopped caring and I'm waiting to see how many pieces it spits out when it finally let's go. It'll slip and then catch like I neutral dropped it

Dusterbd13 said:

The company car has an intermittently slipping transmission. I have reported it multiple times and even had it looked at a few and nobody's willing to pay to have it fixed. They all claimed there's not a problem. The confession is that I have stopped caring and I'm waiting to see how many pieces it spits out when it finally let's go. It'll slip and then catch like I neutral dropped it

They should at least change the fluid. Your way is more fun though.

mtn said:

Dusterbd13 said:

The company car has an intermittently slipping transmission. I have reported it multiple times and even had it looked at a few and nobody's willing to pay to have it fixed. They all claimed there's not a problem. The confession is that I have stopped caring and I'm waiting to see how many pieces it spits out when it finally let's go. It'll slip and then catch like I neutral dropped it

They should at least change the fluid. Your way is more fun though.

Last time I had the oil changed I finally convinced him to change trans fluid. Only make the problem worse

I’m over 50 years old and I’ve bought something I can’t characterize as anything but a toy. 

It’s 35dgF and the winds died down in Central Illinois right now.  I’m watching marching bands compete and I could easily just go home.  Wifey not leaving until we see our daughter again.  

Basically Lincoln Way kicks out butt.  I can tell you the results.  Badminton never ended at 11:00pm 

Ended up watching Christine again. Would be nice if some of my cars learned from that Plymouth. Minus the whole killing spree bit of course.

I made arrangements to go look at a Cimbria project today that never got finished. I was actually glad the craigslist seller sold it before I left to go look at it because I probably would have brought it home and certainly don't need another car project.