as in, seriously, would love to have a different one right about now. (after all this negativity i'll be sure to tell you how fucking rad my trip was.)
i was driving home this evening when suddenly i heard this god awful grinding noise coming from my car. it sounded like i was dragging something, so i pulled over and looked. nothing.
i started driving again, but it just kept going, so i pulled over yet again. then i actually had to get on the ground to look up under my car, and lo & behold, there's something dragging.
i have no idea what this thing even is. it's long, and curves a little width wise (it's like half of a cylinder, but it's a grate instead of a whole piece of metal - if that makes any fucking sense at all). it's towards the front of the car, right smack dab in the center.
i couldn't reach it with my arm, and there was no way i was crawling under my car on western, in the dark, with cars flying by at 80 mph. no way.
so i searched for a branch or anything to poke under there, and fuck it if there weren't any trees around. i grabbed my scraper from the trunk, and pushed the half that was dragging back up. as soon as i started the car back up, it fell again. i tried pushing it up with the car already on, but when i drove it just fell again.
i have no idea what this thing is, and of course, no one i know knows ANYTHING about cars. i can't get ahold of my dad, and my poor little car sounds like it's going to fucking explode when you drive it.
i am so motherfucking irritated.
i'm going to go outside now, and jack up my car, crawl underneath, and hopefully, if i'm lucky, have it fall on top of me, crushing my body.