Something to tinker on

 

A friend texted me the other day with a list of problems with her vehicle and because I like to pretend I am a mechanic I texted her back a list of possible solutions or things to check throwing in fancy terminology like MAP sensor and choke pull-off (an ever-important Cartalk reference). But my most helpful advice was that she was making the engine noises wrong. Instead of a simple vroom it should have been vrooom, vrooooom, vroooooom! The vehicle had a V8 after all. And I mention this because I thought it was funny and..let me think I am sure I had another reason… Ok, maybe not.

The story is told of Roger Welsch, one of my favorite writers, when he left his teaching job to write, farm, and tinker on old tractors full-time that he came to his wife after a bit and told her it wasn’t working and they weren’t going to make it but then he went onto say in that traditional Nebraskan common sense but I’m not going back.

My friend texted me. Her mechanic told her it is actually vvvvrrroooommm!!! And that’ll be an extra $150. Haha. Her car is running. Like butter she said. Her kitchen must be a strange place. I was happy. And now I remember. For while spark plugs and MAP sensors are needed it’s the vroom vrooms that really matter and finding that which I can embrace with my heart with no plans of retreat.