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Oh for bogs sake...
May. 3rd, 2004 06:53 pm"So the Cadillac's transmission started seriously acting up on Sunday to the point wher I was nervous the entire drive home. I decided that I didn't trust it to go to workanymore, with how far I sometimes had to drive. So I called my boss and told him this. Well they are so desperately behind right now that he immediately offered me a rental car if that ment I could still work. I accepted.
This morning the Alley Cat and I drove out to the rental place to pick it up. He'd reserved an economy car (Neon or Focus). When we got there they were all out of those so I got upgraded. Too a farking Toyota 4Runner SUV (it was either that or the Ford Excursion). So I had a choice between the Double Big Gulp of trucks and the Ultra Super Double Big Gulp. I took the 4Runner other theory of lesser of two evils (and A significant difference in gas mileage and drove it to work.
It was nice driving something so new that I was certain everything would simply work as expected. However I had a knot of tension between my shoulderblades during the entire drive through the rain to work. I hate even the concept of driving with a vehicle which has a warning label in the driver's visor that reads 'WARNING: HIGHER ROLLOVER RISK Avoid abrupt manuvers and excessive speed'. What that means to me is that when I need control the most (ie in an emergency evasive manuver) is when this vehicle will most exhibit it's instability. *shudder*
On the plus side, I'm thining about taking all sorts of pictures of it climbing 3 inch curbs, or fording puddles, or traversing potholes and make apropriately snarky ads out of them."
This morning the Alley Cat and I drove out to the rental place to pick it up. He'd reserved an economy car (Neon or Focus). When we got there they were all out of those so I got upgraded. Too a farking Toyota 4Runner SUV (it was either that or the Ford Excursion). So I had a choice between the Double Big Gulp of trucks and the Ultra Super Double Big Gulp. I took the 4Runner other theory of lesser of two evils (and A significant difference in gas mileage and drove it to work.
It was nice driving something so new that I was certain everything would simply work as expected. However I had a knot of tension between my shoulderblades during the entire drive through the rain to work. I hate even the concept of driving with a vehicle which has a warning label in the driver's visor that reads 'WARNING: HIGHER ROLLOVER RISK Avoid abrupt manuvers and excessive speed'. What that means to me is that when I need control the most (ie in an emergency evasive manuver) is when this vehicle will most exhibit it's instability. *shudder*
On the plus side, I'm thining about taking all sorts of pictures of it climbing 3 inch curbs, or fording puddles, or traversing potholes and make apropriately snarky ads out of them."
