Saturday, May 01, 2004
While driving my VW van in Grand Rapids today, I realized that the sloppy stick shift was now so sloppy I only have two gears: third and fourth. This happened once before. There is a little nylon bushing that is a poor design. When it breaks, you lose gears! So, I parked very carefully at Burger King so that I could pull out forwards (no reverse, of course). While in Burger King I noticed a young Latin American couple trying to explain that they only wanted a burger and fries, so why had they been given an additional set of fries and a drink? After watching the confusion about "value meals" for a while I decided to interpret between the cashier and the customer. Instant amazement from the black cashier and the brown customer that the white boy could speak Spanish. May wonders never cease. Issue resolved, everybody happy, and now I have two cars in the garage that need repairs.
