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So, That's Weird

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As you can see above, my car is OK.

I'm a bit late writing about it, but a while back I was tooling down the freeway on my way to work when suddenly my accelerator quit working.  The engine was still idling but no response to mashing on the accelerator.  That seemed a bit weird.  I pulled to the shoulder and stopped.  I stepped on the accelerator a couple of times and got a feeble response from the engine, but not a rev.  So I turned off the car and lifted the hood to see if I could find anything wrong.  Boy howdy, did I find something wrong.  The upper radiator hose had become disconnected from the radiator and there was coolant all over the engine compartment.  At this point I was wondering how much a new engine cost because running an engine without coolant is not a good thing.

I called home for a ride and Marydalene called the mechanic who set up a tow for us.  Luckily Mom and Dad were still here at the time, and they brought our other car which I continued on my journey with.

While I was waiting on the side of the freeway a Highway Patrolman pulled up and, after ascertaining that I was not going to just leave my car on the shoulder marked it with the OK so that other Patrolmen would not have to stop to check me out as well.

We really need my car because it is the only car that both the car seat and Timothy's booster fit into.  I was thinking most of that day about what kind of car I wanted to buy if the engine repairs were more than the car was worth.

To keep a long story from getting too much longer I'll sum up.  The mechanic reattached the radiator hose and filled it with coolant and could find no problems with the engine. Huzzah!  He was quite flummoxed.  He did find some other things that needed repair (of course) so we had them fix those things.  He was actually bothered by not understanding why my car quite responding to the accelerator enough to write a note to himself to call me to see how the car was doing.

The mechanic came up with some possibility to explain the accelerator not working, but I choose to believe that Heavenly Father was keeping me from continuing to push the engine without coolant so that we would have a car that could handle our new and improved family.

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  1. GrammyzanneAugust 3, 2008 at 11:14 PM

    It did all work out rather "conveniently" didn't it.

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  2. Lynda/MomAugust 4, 2008 at 9:21 PM

    How interesting! I'm glad things worked out well for you, and your car was repairable. Aunt Lynda

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