Can I ask a serious question without being thrown off topic?

[shardian]

My engine got the little tap tap taperoo once.  5 minutes later there was a cloud of white smoke and a trail of bits of metal behind me when it threw a rod.

hehe...I never knew oil could drain that fast...

[thebrownshow]

That wasn't even the worst part.  It was about 9pm in mid janurary, 12 degrees outside.  Waited TWO HOURS for a tow truck as I froze ---my bottom--- off and kept the insanity at bay by playing Tic-Tac-Toe with myself with the frost on the INSIDE of the car windows.

[shardian]

I was close to my interstate exit, so I coasted to the ramp, and then into a parking lot. I had picked up my new tracker the day before, so I proceded to strip everything of value, then called the junk yard and said it was all theirs. I didn't tell them the engine...and probably the transmission, was mangled.

[ChadTower]

And they probably didn't care, either. 

[shardian]

No, not this junk yard. They were in the process of clearing out their yard. They only took it because I told them it was fine and then just shut down all the sudden. They screwed me over on a previous deal, so I got them back on this one. They paid the towing bill, of course.