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fandomsecrets2021-03-10 06:10 pm
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[ SECRET POST #5178 ]
⌈ Secret Post #5178 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: Crazy real life stories
(Anonymous) 2021-03-11 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)The back of one of my hands was blistering, and I was supposed to drive home. I bandaged up that hand with a ton of ointment and gauze and whatnot and my friend gave me a little extra cash in case I had to stop somewhere on the way back, because at the time I was young and had no credit card, and I had lost my first job recently so while I had a checkbook, the account was pretty dry. And I set out.
Aaaand in the middle of the Appalachians, my car decided it did not like going up mountains in that heat, and kept overheating and stalling approximately once per hour. With me injured, no air conditioning... but I would pull over to one of those pull-over zones and wait until the car cooled down.
Eventually I made it to a rest stop and not knowing what else to do, called my parents on a cell phone. Of course at the time I was still about 700 miles from home, so all they could do was give me advice which wasn't terribly helpful about cooling the engine, and I sat down there and just started crying because I had never been that far from home before that weekend and of course this would happen when I was already freaked out about the drive. Fortunately a good person saw me crying there and helped me out... we looked for empty 2-liter bottles in the trash cans that I could fill with water in the restrooms and take with me in case the car overheated again. Which it did, repeatedly.
Finally I get into Ohio and the temperature is considerably less hot, thank goodness... except that's because a thunderstorm is rolling in, with such severe rain that after the sun went down (since it took me so long to get there), I couldn't see the road. So I was very grateful for my friend's extra cash, I could stop somewhere along the way and stay at a cheap motel for the night.
And the next day dawned bright and sunny but not too hot, and my blistered hand was now leaking, but I was maybe 5-6 hours from home now. I could do this!
And when I stopped to buy gas in Indiana at a truck stop, the car wouldn't start again. No response from the ignition.
So I was wandering around between the trucks trying to find someone who would give me a jump, because the truck stop wanted me to pay them $30 to use their portable unit, and I'd just spent my last $20 buying the gas. Finally found a guy and he came over to my car to have a look first to make sure a jump was what I needed... and the car just randomly started again.
I did not stop again for the rest of the drive home. I didn't dare tempt something ELSE to go wrong. The rest of the day after I did get home was spent in a dissociative haze wandering around my house and wondering if I was really there, and how I actually managed to get there.
Re: Crazy real life stories
(Anonymous) 2021-03-11 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)