wow....the wiring harnesses in our cars are defective. that is absolutely terrific news......terrific.

why just this afternoon i was thinking to myself: ?self? i said. ?i sure do miss taking the bus and having the wife drop me off at work, and i just don?t know what i?m going to do with my next pay check.?

my children think i?m a mechanic. ?my daddy works on cars.? they say pride in there voices. imagine how hard it would have been for me to tell them: ?i?m not actually a mechanic. i just had a momentary lapse in sanity and bought a ford instead of a japanese car like mommy?s car.?

speaking of mommy?s car: i wonder why i end up driving mommy?s car more than mommy? i wonder if why gas doesn?t start poring out of the tank when it?s parked at an angle, or why the check engine light doesn?t come on when i?m driving it up hills? maybe the bulb is burned out. i wonder why the water pump has never grenaded miles from home, letting me push it back home in the middle of the night? i wonder why it never occasionally just starts dropping a cylinder, or why it never sound like an f***ing moose when i shut it off? i wonder why interior pieces don?t just start breaking? i wonder why it never just starts revving like a g**d*mn banshee while i?m sitting at a stop light making everyone around me think i?m trying to race them? i wonder why it?s dealer doesn?t charge me hundreds of dollars every time i take the car in, or try to buy a part?

her car has three times the amount of miles on it as mine did at its age. anybody know why?......anybody?

Oh well, the contour?s good looks an prospective performance are much more important than actually driving it. right?

wow, i'm starting to sound like one of those people aren't i? i need a beer.