Date:         Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:12:58 -0800 (PST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Thom Fitzpatrick" <thom@calweb.com>
Subject:      Psycho Bus, Witicisms, and other Hilarities


My bus turned psycho today.

I stopped by a garage sale, didn't find anything cool, went to leave,
turned the key to start the bus, and nuthin' - no growl, no click, nothing.

Got out to do the obligatory cable check, yanked on the battery cables,
and the starter kicks in.  And the bus is in gear!  I instintcively pull
the coil wire, but that does not good because the key is not on! 

So I'm sitting there, straining to hold the lurching bus back by the bumper,
I finally cry out "help!" louder and louder until someone hears me.  This
15 year old or so girl comes running over, and I tell her "hit the brake!"
so she runs to the cab, only to return in about 10 seconds:  "which one's
the brake?"  

So anyway, she finds it, pushes it with her hand, and gets the bus to stop.
I go up and take it out of gear.  After that it started.  Wierd.  I think
I'm going to replace the starter (which is the old one I replaced before
but put back in yesterday) with the one I exchanged last night.

The other funny thing was when I bought my battery cables. I walk into the 
the store, and the guy does the standard "can I help you find something?"
Yes, battery cables. "Right this way.  How long you need them?"  Oh, 5 or
6 years or so. 

Then I asked for VW exhaust clamps.  "sorry, I don't have any of those."
Oh, well can you ask the other clerk and see if he has any?

"Hilarities" was Socrates's cousin, the failed stand-up comedian.

Thom
--
> Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted.
Thom Fitzpatrick 
thom@calweb.com - http://www.calweb.com/~thom
Keeper of the Barndoor Bus Page: http://www.calweb.com/~thom/barndoor.html