The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107727 Message #2237464
Posted By: Janie
15-Jan-08 - 11:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: '08 Question for Mudwomenz???
Subject: RE: BS: '08 Question for Mudwomenz???
Back in the olden days, when this womanz was in the prime of sweet young thinghood, the beau bought a brand new little sports car. I forget what it was -an MG or triumph- something of that ilk. The first night he got it, we went cruising through the local drive-in restaurant parking lot and he collected an entourage to go to the car wash where all the local wags could admire it under the bright lights of one of the stalls. Car buffs all, amateur mechanics. I was the only female in the bunch, and my knowledge and interest in cars extended to wanting to know where the gas cap was, and no further.
When enough oohing, awing, and looking under the hood had been accomplished, and we were all set to head back to the drive-in, the shiny, new little car would not start. Up went the hood again, and four heads poked, fiddled, cranked, opined, etc., etc.
Early on, I commented that I had heard a little metallic clank when we stopped the car on arrival. I was completely ignored. Several minutes later, I very tentatively opined that maybe some one should look under the car. that metal clank, you know. Again, I was ignored.
Increasingly bored with the whole affair, I eventually looked under the car myself, and found a shiny, round, concave metal somethingorother with a lip that looked to me like it might be designed to seal or cap a hole. It looked brand new. The car was brand new. It was under the engine of the car. The car wouldn't start. All the poking, jiggling, fiddling with sparkplug wires, etc., on the part of our 4 heros were having no effect.
"Uh, Guys? Any of you know lots more than me, but so far you haven't found anything amiss. I found this under the car. It is so shiny and new, seems like it must have come off the car. Might it seal something to create a vacuum, or....you know....might it have something to do with the problem?"
They didn't completely ignore me this time in that the beau did take the piece from my hand, and agree it was shiny and new enough to have come off the car. The guys collectively spent three seconds looking at it before agreeing that what ever it was, it couldn't be the problem. Eventually, they put a tow strap on the new little car and towed it to the dealership to be looked at the next day, and beau got one of them to take me home.
At the dealership the next day, the mechanic quickly noted the metal cap needed for some hose or engine compartment to create a vacuum seal for the engine to start and run was missing.
"Oh," says the beau. "This one?" pulling the piece I had found the night before from the back seat.
"Yep" said the mechanic. Beau had the decency to look sheepish.
5 minutes later we were out of there.
I believe the word Jacqui used was logic?