#car stuff

[thedandeliondyke]

You may have had hot car sex with another lesbian but have you have hot car sex so good you nearly SHATTER HER GODDAMN WINDSHEILD. Kinda wanna turn it into a table if she gets it replaced.

[wowbright]

Today was soooo stressful.

There were also moments of non stress.

Went birding with my old people. My friend X is one of the first people I met when I moved out here and spouse refers to him as "yo boy," a recognition of high friendship status in our household. Probably the most outgoing and friendly among the birding crowd around here. He's in his 80s now and started having in the past few years what the doctors diagnosed as seizures. He's on anti-seizure meds and he's losing sight in one of his eyes. He says his memory (mostly in the recall of facts) isn't what it used to be. He wonders if he's getting dementia but that hasn't been diagnosed and I kind of think (not a medical diagnosis) it's more likely to be depression. He's been pretty glum lately, really is not adapting well to the changes in his body and feels very limited by them, it doesn't feel like he can engage in most of his hobbies anymore. He can't drive anymore either because of his vision, his wife taxes him most places. He mostly goes birding for the social aspect, though he does seem to enjoy the easy finds like the larger water birds. (His vision issues make looking through binoculars hit or miss and he has given up on wearing his hearing aids when birding.) He said he recently went into the doctors for a rash, took one of those wellness surveys during the intake, and the first thing the doctor wanted to talk about was not about the rash but whether or not he had any guns in his house. (He doesn't.) He tells me he's not suicidal and doesn't have a suicide plan, but over the past few months he's expressed more than once that maybe he would be okay with dying already. I listen, and then he tells me a terrible birding joke.

He does get excited over the number of songbirds and ducks we see today. I am pretty happy with our sightings too. Canvasbacks!

I run some errands and on the way back in a 40 mile an hour zone with nowhere to pull off, my car starts acting wild. First thing I notice is that the defroster stops working. Then the radio cuts out. That I noticed that the brake light is on, even though the emergency brake is definitely not engaged (I check). I have forgotten where the switch for the hazard light is. The hand on the speedometer is waving wildly between 0 and 40 mph, even though I'm going at a steady speed. I find the hazard light switch, hit it, but nothing happens. I reach an intersection and turn onto a smaller road, but the power steering isn't working so it's a bit of a task, especially when the steering wheel momentarily freezes up completely in the middle of the turn. The car is moving but there's definitely some miscommunications going on between the gas pedal and the engine. I am on a less busy (but still busy) street, my goal is to get down far enough so that somebody turning right around the corner doesn't just hit my car, park in the right lane (there are two lanes in each direction) and turn on the hazards. BUT WAIT THE HAZARDS AREN'T WORKING. So I just keep going and hope I can pull into the next side street. I reach a side street, pull sideways into it. The side street goes uphill and the car does not have enough power to make a complete right turn or to go up that hill, so basically I am parked across one of the lanes. Fortunately it is a dead end street into a shishi residential neighborhood, and it's the middle of the day, so no one is trying to go in or out of it. Call my spouse who doesn't answer, call again, no answer, police officer stops and wants to help push the car to a safer place but that's a no-go. She also mentions that I probably should not sit in the car in case it gets sideswiped. (Oh yeah whoops.) Tow truck shows up after about 10 minutes, and it turns out that this really was a good street to pull into, because I only see one vehicle going in or out the entire time I'm waiting, and it has no issues going around my car.

Well, survived that! The car is back at the apartment along with the groceries that were in the trunk, but it's not going to run until we get it towed *again* to the repair place.

If only the alternator (we're assuming that's the problem) had waited two more months to crap out, because we'll be living in the city by then and could feasibly just not have a car at all. That won't work in the meantime though. Sigh.

[batbitestoys]

DG window peeker stickers are here! I just have a few for now, but if y'all like them I'll order more!

These are roughly 6.5" by 5.5" inches and printed on clear glossy vinyl 💕

[darkwood-sleddog]

The new ride!!

[nabsthevulture]

One downside to liking an "obscure" model of vehicle, especially one that's older than 10 years, is that you can't find parts for shit and when you do theyre like $$$

[pastamic]

Help Two Queer Disabled People Keep Their Car

GoFundMe

Hi!

I try not to post stuff like this here bc I keep this blog for fandom, though I always try to reblog others posts of this nature. My health has been worse in recent months and I've been missing work a lot more bc of my seizures coming back, and of my dysautonomia getting worse. We got a call from our car company saying that they've sent our account to collections and that because of late fees and missing this months payment, we owe about $2k to them and they want $635 by the 23rd or they're going to repossess the car. We use the car to get me to work and get me to my appointments. My dysautonomia makes it so I pass out when I stand up so the bus isn't a particularly safe option so even if you can't donate please share this around as much as you can. We didn't even get a call until about two days ago and I don't get paid until the 27th so we're kind of scrambling to figure out what to do.

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[headlight-district]

Spin those tires and light the fires! The weekend is almost here!

[sp00ky-p00ky]

Heat in my car fixed ✅️ yay!

Also had to replace a control arm and get an alignment ✅️ not so yay but it's ok

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Thiss is the Buddy for April 21st. I wanted to make something that looked a bit Mad Max-ish, but I also wanted to reference R. Crumb's Keep on Truckin' cartoon. So, I thought, why not combine both? Keep on Truckin' down that Fury Road, Buddy!

I know I throw around the term "best movie of all time" a lot, but I think we can all agree Mad Max: Fury Road is the best movie of all time, right? I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Mad Max is an interesting series. It started out as a violent crime flick, then the sequel was a post-apocalyptic action/western thing. It makes the first movie look insane in contrast. I don't think we could have a movie that starts as a cop drama and ends with the end of the freaking world again, right?

And the franchise itself unlike anything else, either - all movies were directed by George Miller, all movies are great, there's almost no CGI. Miller was a physician before getting into movies. Quite the pedigree!

That also means that, in a way, the Mad Max series is the most awesome road safety PSA of all times. Pretty cool stuff.

[masterrrcheeks]

wear your seatbelts :)

[darkwood-sleddog]

well. we are getting a new car. and i'm not complaining bc it is my dream subaru pretty much.

[beesmakesthings]

Letters to my Dad (might end up as a series, who knows)

Hey Dad... I sold the beastie today. That funny rattly car that took me back and forth to you all those months. It wasn't that many really was it in the end? I am sure I shouted it as much as I talked softly to it, driving back and forth in the dark and trying to avoid potholes. (So MANY potholes) Sitting grinding in the traffic waiting at Bens Yard. Someone will suggest meeting there one day and I will explode all the rage at how much time it took away from me and you last winter. How much time I spent being tense in traffic, desperate only to make the most of the time we had left. It's taken me a good lot of other places since you died, and most importantly it took Laurie and I home after you'd gone. (He cabbed back to Ely and picked it up, brought a load of shopping so we could hole up and sit with you. I hated that you were dying, but being with you those last hours was honestly so calm and peaceful). But I can't drive it any more. The pain in my feet has just got worse and worse. I don't regret anything you understand - I've felt quite proud of remastering manual driving and being able to drive both cars. But automatic beckons for me now, I think. But I'm exhausted by the grief of the loss of this other connection. Even as others form at the same time. Unexpected tears and ....not regrets, I can't drive it and someone should be driving it that can get use from it. But it was *my* car - the one you bought me. And it will always be so. The money I got for beastie will go into whatever the Citroen needs now, and you'll still be with me. Goodnight tonight Dad. I miss you and I wish you could show me round this camera. I miss our conversations and all the things you knew. I don't miss seeing you in pain or feeling like I couldn't do anything right most of the time, but I do miss you actually being here.

[spaghetti-angel]

A yellow car names Tamago...