This morning I was awakened by a loud " BOOM", followed by clang, clang, clang of a horrible piston rod noise.

I got up to do my last moment holiday shopping.

Going to my car (no coffee yet), he hollerd for me to come help start his truck.

(thinking, ok, it is the holiday, i will be kind).

I drive around the block to his house and park.

He asks me to crank it, while he tinkers under the hood.

I twist the ignition, and the lock sticks in the crank position, clang, clang, clang sounds like a broken piston rod.

As I am beating the steering column / trying to free the lock, he is screaming + trying to pull the battery cables off.

The lock popped back to the run position, and the engine is actually running clang, clang, clang.

He slammed the hood, I jumped out stumbled, falling over empty starting fluid cans.

He jumped in and tried to take off.

There was a LOUD grind, rip, crunch, followed by silence.

I pulled two business cards from my wallet, towing + junk yard.


I happily drove away to my local COFFEE shop...
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