Well, tomorrow morning at 8am the movers are coming to pack everything then on the 31st they are going to load it all up into their truck and take it to St. Louis. I had to do a bit of preparation in order for this to go smoothly. I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked to, unfortunately.

One of the things that I needed to get done was moving the car that has a broken on-board computer (making the engine all fucked up and stall randomly [which cost me close to $2K just to find out there was no way to fix it with out spending more money that might not even fix the problem]). The battery had died because it had been sitting in the drive way since August. With the help of my neighbor I jumped the car and was ready to move it. . .

You can see the trail of brake fluid on the first pic (left one, click on it for larger image). Basically I put it in reverse to back out of the drive way and the brakes were a little off and I was only slowing, not stopping so I threw it into park and the car stopped. Well I figured: “It must just be a little stuck or rusty. I should just drive it to the guest parking spot (because I can’t leave it in the driveway of a house I no longer rent) and if the breaks still don’t work I will just throw it into park again!”

I don’t really know much about cars.

Apparently there was a break in the break line somewhere and I was draining fluid, bad. Looking back later I could see the points where I was trying to use the break becasue the trail was thicker. Basically when I was in the parking spot and still rolling forwards, after I had thrown the vehicle into park, and after I had thrown the emergency break, I started to panic. Luckily! I was only going about 5 miles per hour, and the landing was soft. I was going to donate the car anyways, so it is not like I needed it (it still runs by the way).

You know those stories about how time slows down for people in certain situations and you can see everything really clear? Well, this is the second time in my life it had happen. I saw every drop of muddy water as it splashed up over the hood of the car. In the 2 seconds it took me to go over the edge I had a small conversation with myself about how I should have thrown the emergency brake earlier and if that didn’t work, to throw it into reverse.

It is kind of silly looking back on it now. Aside from a little (ok a lot) of mud the car is still in the same shape it was before I moved it. Sorry I wrote so much, perhaps you can get a chuckle out of a shitty-turned-funny-in-hind-sight situation.