Comments on: A tip http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:50:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim B http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-3082 Jim B Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:49:14 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-3082 Ouch. I feel your pain... No truly I do! 12 years ago... coming home with my first Real paycheck after college... I remember driving down the road and smelling carmel corn where I had never smelled it before... I thought, "Someone must have opened a new factory!" So I'm looking around for the carmel corn factory and at least one kind soul was flashing his lights behind me... Perhaps a minute later, my little car suddenly started to slow, and I hadn't moved the gas pedal. Uh Oh. Push harder. UH OH! Really slowing down... I limped to the side of the road and my little car died in a smokey heap. Near as I could figure out, the coolant hadn't been changed in quite a while... Dad never bothered so I didn't either... Well, something in the radiator failed and the little car overheated, burning the oil on the outside of the engine... Carmel Corn Smell... a gasket failed and shot the coolant into the block which cracked it and as I limped to the side of the road I seized a piston. I guess I learned two lessons; one, to take care of my vehicle's cooling system and two, to prepare for the worst if I smell carmel corn. Goodbye little car. We had many good miles together. Ouch. I feel your pain… No truly I do!
12 years ago… coming home with my first Real paycheck after college…
I remember driving down the road and smelling carmel corn where I had never smelled it before… I thought, “Someone must have opened a new factory!” So I’m looking around for the carmel corn factory and at least one kind soul was flashing his lights behind me…
Perhaps a minute later, my little car suddenly started to slow, and I hadn’t moved the gas pedal. Uh Oh. Push harder. UH OH! Really slowing down… I limped to the side of the road and my little car died in a smokey heap.
Near as I could figure out, the coolant hadn’t been changed in quite a while… Dad never bothered so I didn’t either… Well, something in the radiator failed and the little car overheated, burning the oil on the outside of the engine… Carmel Corn Smell… a gasket failed and shot the coolant into the block which cracked it and as I limped to the side of the road I seized a piston.
I guess I learned two lessons; one, to take care of my vehicle’s cooling system and two, to prepare for the worst if I smell carmel corn.
Goodbye little car. We had many good miles together.

]]> By: Nathan (brother) http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-3007 Nathan (brother) Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:26:44 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-3007 I think Mom would remember when it happened to our green van, and the windshield got cracked. Exciting. I'm pretty sure I was there. I think Mom would remember when it happened to our green van, and the windshield got cracked. Exciting. I’m pretty sure I was there.

]]> By: daniel http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-2984 daniel Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:14:12 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-2984 So true So true

]]> By: ShackelMom http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-2983 ShackelMom Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:31:01 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-2983 Ugh. But in the other side, even though you were temporarily blinded, you didn't crash into anything. Laughing beats crying... Ugh. But in the other side, even though you were temporarily blinded, you didn’t crash into anything. Laughing beats crying…

]]> By: daniel http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-2977 daniel Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:57:39 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-2977 What, you mean that is not funny? I laughed an embarrassed little laugh at the time, and I think I laughed when I pulled off the road to call B. What, you mean that is not funny? I laughed an embarrassed little laugh at the time, and I think I laughed when I pulled off the road to call B.

]]> By: luke http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-2975 luke Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:39:13 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-2975 Very humble and gracious to share this with us. I'll try and remember the advice. What is fortunate for me is that my hood opens reverse normal hoods, so unless I stopped really fast.. it'll stay down even with such a mistake. Sorry it happened, maybe it'll be funnier to you as time goes by? Very humble and gracious to share this with us. I’ll try and remember the advice. What is fortunate for me is that my hood opens reverse normal hoods, so unless I stopped really fast.. it’ll stay down even with such a mistake. Sorry it happened, maybe it’ll be funnier to you as time goes by?

]]> By: ShackelMom http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2006/04/02/a-tip/#comment-2677 ShackelMom Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:03:12 +0000 http://daniel.shackelford.org/blog/2006/01/10/a-tip/#comment-2677 I sense that there might be a story to go with this good advise... Might be nice to hear... :-) I sense that there might be a story to go with this good advise… Might be nice to hear… :-)

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