It has certainly been an interesting week! For over a month the roommate has been driving my van whilst saving up money to get his car's transmission fixed. Then, startlingly, as we prepped it for the drive up to the transmission shop (forward gears worked, but no reverse) we discovered that our previous efforts at recovery had been a tad deficient-adding a couple more quarts of tranny fluid brought reverse back to life!
UNCANNY! We will still have to monitor the situation-there seems to be a bit of a leak-but this changes everything for him! And I've proposed that he and his girlfriend learn to drive a standard (stick) transmission; once I learned how, I've tried to always buy a stick. There's just so many advantages, not the least that repairs are invariably cheaper! And that will certainly broaden his options for eventually replacing his aging car.
I've been a bit slack about posting here-probably 'cause I'm spending a lot of time at alt.slack! A usenet group for the Subgenius in all of us. And a terrific source for hearing about great Badfilms, weird news, and general snarky social commentary.
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