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12-18-2008, 10:04 AM #1Registered User
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We fretted and we sweated.....
Yesterday Dad and I went to the nearest town for groceries and to run some errands, etc..... . Just as we got into town I started hearing a 'noise' in his car. It sounded like something metal dragging. Well at first he couldn't hear it and then when he could he got really edgy about it. We made about 4-5 stops and everytime we'd start moving again it was 'well I don't know what it could be, is it a brake dragging? is it a wheel bearing....? well I just don't know. It's getting worse....I don't know whether or not to drive it home....I don't know what it is....'. We drove it home but slowly and so tense you couldn't drive needle in our backsides with a sledge hammer, watching the gauges, listening, straining to hear...... . Sssoooo we pull up in my driveway and I bend down to see what's falling out from under the car and there it was. Plain as day. A daggumm tumbleweed!!! I was about half ticked and half thrilled.
Thank goodness that's all it was but boy howdy did we fret and sweat over the dang thang. I was physically tired from being so tense. Oh well, I guess I burned a few extra calories I hadn't counted on burning....eh? 
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oh how funny!!! i am a nervous nellie and would have done the same.....thank god it was only tumbleweed........lol
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I would have been just as nervous!!! I am certainly glad it was nothing to worry about.
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Lisa, that was the tumbleweed I sent you. It was on my back bumper and I set it free!
My apologies for the scare. (I'll let you know next time I let one go) ooops. Now I'll be all paranoid. tee hee
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Thank God that is all it was, I would have been nervous too!
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I am so glad it was basically nothing. But, you know, I have done the same thing. It was like a big rock stuck in a set of new tires or something stupid like that.
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Too funny..... now...... but I am sure not at the time!
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That's great that it was only a tumbleweed.
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Too funny. I started reading your post to my hubby since he is a mechanic (and I thought I could help you in some way) then I get to the part with the tumbleweed and I started cracking up.. DH just rolled his eyes, giggled and said "That's women for you!" Don't worry I slapped him for you and all women out there for that comment!!
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That's funny but why didn't you just pull over and look?
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12-18-2008, 01:59 PM #11
Lisa, glad it was only a tumbleweed. Car expenses at Christmas time (or any time for that matter) aren't good.
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Thanks God it wasn't anything worst.
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Originally Posted by AnnK
Well, I don't know.
Seriously we did bend down and look at each stop. When we got home I got like almost on the ground to see it.....didn't wanna do that in the crowded places we were in. A girl has her priorities ya know
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12-18-2008, 04:03 PM #14Registered User
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Phew! It's so rare that those weird noises in the car don't end in a high price tag! Actually, if I might highjack I have a funny similar story. We had this old minivan that had a loose belt so every once in a while it would make a chirping noise. Well dh drove the van to work one day (he works in a classified area) so as he was going through the security gate one of the guards said "Hey you have a bird in there!" dh just smiled and waved it off thinking they were talking about the chirping noise. He went through two more gates and two more guards said the same thing. Dh is thinking this is weird but whatever. He gets to his building and parks the car and there stuck in his grill is a HUGE hawk. He was first of all mortified that he had killed a hawk and second of all embarrassed that he drove all over the place with this huge bird sticking out of the van! Glad your story had a good ending as well!!
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Glad that's all it was! You have to admit it's pretty funny in hindsight though.
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