🔩 A Day to Remember 🔩

I worked on a car today. It was a co-worker and friend's vehicle. I was asked to help take a look over the car, to make sure it was up to snuff for a trip across country that's coming up. It's not a bad car by any means, although I do have gripes about it. I had previously been asked to help on another occasion on the same vehicle, where, believe it or not, they said they couldn't figure out how to put the spare tire back in place. I took a 5 minute look at it myself and was quite puzzled, to the point where I recommended looking it up on YouTube. By this time in the history of our living, we're able to quickly and concisely find videos of the exact task at hand, ususally on the same equipment. It's a wonderful phenomena - Not at all like when I was a child, and not like when I was even a very young man into my early twenties. Life was a lot harder back then, in my opinion. Anyway, the YouTube video quickly unveiled to us that we would have never figured it out on our own probably even if our lives depended on it. My coworker even though his AAA (pronounced as "Triple A") mechanic stole a wrench piece to put the tire back in, that's how complicated it was to even put together. So the actual task at hand I had originally mentioned for the day, was to replace the rear brakes. It was a standard job, we didn't really run into anything noteworthy. Maybe if anything, it would be that I accidentally knocked out a wheel stud. It was pretty funny. I immediately thought of the ol' washer with the lug nut trick. Of course we were working with bare minimum in the parking lot behind work. A man did walk by with a shopping cart. Because that, also, is this time in the history of our living.