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That One Time I Got Locked in a Strange Man’s Garage
Note: No humans were injured in the process of ‘escaping’ the garage.
My car has issues with belts and the alternator. It has had these issues since the car was about four years old. I attempted to get it taken care of by the dealership, but they left me with a dry steering fluid reservoir instead of being, you know…useful.
This led me to seek out garages near me that surprisingly repaired vehicles. I asked a few friends, looked around on the internet, and finally landed on a guy who had a garage in the next town over (my town has nearly nothing useful in it). The man took my $1000 dollars, replaced a couple of belts, put in a new alternator, and voila! My car was back to working mostly okay.
Mr. Mechanic told me to bring it back to him in a few months after the belts had time to settle down so he could tighten them. I held off as requested, but my car was starting to do some very strange things while accelerating, decelerating, stopping, starting…you see the pattern. I called Mr. Mechanic back for an appointment. It right before Thanksgiving, we only own one car, and it was the kind of emergency that would leave us stranded in negative degree weather without a parachute. (The parachute is for warmth.)
