Screwd up again

WoodenGypsy · 03-28-2008, 08:54 AM

Ok I am not someone who knows nothing about cars, shoot I have worked on all of my own vehicles and alot of my friends through the years.Although sometimes I wish I that some straping man would come to my rescue, I usually can hold my own. Yesterday I went outside to do some work I have been putting offfffff way to long mostly because of weather and not having a safe place to do it, bu talso I have to admit because I was hoping a certain straping man was going ot have time to help me.Well he hasn't had the time and I couldn't go much longer with out my car.

So on the nicest day so far I went out to change my breaks, well thats what I was supposed to do. I moved my car on to the side walk, the only safe place to work right now,and set out for my task. I got out the car to find I had a flat. Well here where my first mistake came in. I decided to wait to change that,since it was in the front, until I finished the back breaks. I should of known better since this would put the car off center and could cause problems and since this is not the best situation I'm working should of considered it.But I started to set up the jack, I couldn't come from the side with the jack cause of the position of the car and the width of the side walk. I set the jack up from the back and loosed the lug nuts to get me started. I started to jack up the car and found that I couldn't get it up high enough to do anything.Dam jack! I was getting mad, this is not something good cause I am known for not thinking when Iam mad. I lowered the jack went inside for a min to warm up and get a drink.

When I came back out I decided that I needed to change the flat tire. I got my spare and set to work again Hoping that I could come up with a solution to the break situation. I had to move the car some so I could get to the tire, unfortunitly this meant I had to hang some of the car off the side walk, I thought about it and came to the conclusion that this might just be the best way.That maybe doing this would help the jack lift up enough so that I could get this done. Well I loosened the lug nuts and lifted the car, when I got the car lifted I started to take the tire off with out looking at my clearence for the good one. That was my worst mistake, Ihad the tire almost all the way off before I realized that the good one won't go on the car was not high enough. I didn't worry about it right then I would just lift the car up a lil more, it was not that far off, maybe just 2 inches 3 at the most.Well let me tell you how much of a sifference 3 inches makes, I got the tireoff and went to adjust the jack and found that in my unthinking I didnt' realize that the jack was all the way up. This is not good at all! Well ok then 3 inches right I can do this just get the bad tire back on and go from there, right? Wrong I tried to get the bad tire back on the car. I tried for over an hour to get that dam thing back on! Well while trying for the last time to do this, the jack being at its highest decided that it would slip, luckily the tire was sitting where it caught in the center hole. this is very lucky for I was right there and my foot sliped as the jack did and if the tire didn't catch, well lets not think of that. So now I basically have a 2 ton paper weight on my side walk dangerous paper wieght. And noone to help me fix it, with out spending money I don't have. And of course to top this all off it started snowing again last night and still hasn't stoped yet today. I dont' know what to do .
I feel like an idiot, I should of known better.

Dixieland_delight · 03-28-2008, 08:18 PM

awwwww gypsy we all make little mistakes so hope fully it will get better

GrammyBear · 03-28-2008, 08:23 PM

/comfort *cough* Years from now this will be SO funny to you. I too am afflicted with the ability to preform feats of ease with the greatest of difficulty.

WoodenGypsy · 03-28-2008, 09:30 PM

I'm sure that when I am older or maybe even next week I will laugh about this but right now I just want to get my car in a safe position at the very least.

WoodenGypsy · 03-29-2008, 06:28 PM

OK so now I have a floor jack I barrowed but I can't get it under the stupid car.What else can go wrong now?

GrammyBear · 03-29-2008, 10:06 PM

bless your heart, I wish I knew something to tell you to help

WoodenGypsy · 03-31-2008, 12:57 AM

Right now its jut time that needs to be done getting all things together I should of had in the beginning but wasnt the right one. It will get done I'm sure I just feel like this stuff is always happening to me when I can't do anything about it.

RedheadedPeach · 03-31-2008, 04:57 AM

Hold ya chin up girl..... at least you had the gumption to give it a shot.... not sit on the side of the road crying cause you don't even know if you had a jack, or what it looked like to CHECK..... unlike some female relative of mine I will not name! I had to drive nearly into Atlanta, locate her jack, and spare and change her tire for her on the side of one of Atlanta's BUSIEST Interstates! During evening RUSH HOUR traffic! GRRRRRRRRR!

WoodenGypsy · 04-07-2008, 06:52 AM

Don't you just love relatives? That sounds like my sister, but she would of called AAA before me, I'm to far away.

Well the car is still indisposed, the jack that I barrowed is no use.I truely am starting to believe that I'm not supposed to fix this stupid car. I did finally get the flat changed, I rig the two jacks to get the car enough off the ground to get that done. So now the car is at least in a safer position. I dont' have to worry about anybody touching it and it falling, but the brakes are still not done. I kicked the car and hurt my toe, that didn't help btw. I will get this done darn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Precious_Shanny** · 04-07-2008, 04:53 PM

Gyp... POP!!!! There that put a smile on your face

Haha!

03-28-2008, 08:54 AM	#1 (permalink)

WoodenGypsy Junior Guru Posts: 190 Points: 1,033,278 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont	Screwd up again Ok I am not someone who knows nothing about cars, shoot I have worked on all of my own vehicles and alot of my friends through the years.Although sometimes I wish I that some straping man would come to my rescue, I usually can hold my own. Yesterday I went outside to do some work I have been putting offfffff way to long mostly because of weather and not having a safe place to do it, bu talso I have to admit because I was hoping a certain straping man was going ot have time to help me.Well he hasn't had the time and I couldn't go much longer with out my car. So on the nicest day so far I went out to change my breaks, well thats what I was supposed to do. I moved my car on to the side walk, the only safe place to work right now,and set out for my task. I got out the car to find I had a flat. Well here where my first mistake came in. I decided to wait to change that,since it was in the front, until I finished the back breaks. I should of known better since this would put the car off center and could cause problems and since this is not the best situation I'm working should of considered it.But I started to set up the jack, I couldn't come from the side with the jack cause of the position of the car and the width of the side walk. I set the jack up from the back and loosed the lug nuts to get me started. I started to jack up the car and found that I couldn't get it up high enough to do anything.Dam jack! I was getting mad, this is not something good cause I am known for not thinking when Iam mad. I lowered the jack went inside for a min to warm up and get a drink. When I came back out I decided that I needed to change the flat tire. I got my spare and set to work again Hoping that I could come up with a solution to the break situation. I had to move the car some so I could get to the tire, unfortunitly this meant I had to hang some of the car off the side walk, I thought about it and came to the conclusion that this might just be the best way.That maybe doing this would help the jack lift up enough so that I could get this done. Well I loosened the lug nuts and lifted the car, when I got the car lifted I started to take the tire off with out looking at my clearence for the good one. That was my worst mistake, Ihad the tire almost all the way off before I realized that the good one won't go on the car was not high enough. I didn't worry about it right then I would just lift the car up a lil more, it was not that far off, maybe just 2 inches 3 at the most.Well let me tell you how much of a sifference 3 inches makes, I got the tireoff and went to adjust the jack and found that in my unthinking I didnt' realize that the jack was all the way up. This is not good at all! Well ok then 3 inches right I can do this just get the bad tire back on and go from there, right? Wrong I tried to get the bad tire back on the car. I tried for over an hour to get that dam thing back on! Well while trying for the last time to do this, the jack being at its highest decided that it would slip, luckily the tire was sitting where it caught in the center hole. this is very lucky for I was right there and my foot sliped as the jack did and if the tire didn't catch, well lets not think of that. So now I basically have a 2 ton paper weight on my side walk dangerous paper wieght. And noone to help me fix it, with out spending money I don't have. And of course to top this all off it started snowing again last night and still hasn't stoped yet today. I dont' know what to do . I feel like an idiot, I should of known better. __________________ If you can't dazzle them with Brillance, then baffle them with BS

03-28-2008, 08:18 PM	#2 (permalink)

Dixieland_delight The Heart of Dixie Posts: 621 Points: 330,949,105 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Vermont Age: 26	awwwww gypsy we all make little mistakes so hope fully it will get better __________________ I am a proud member of the chatsusa penguin club

03-28-2008, 08:23 PM	#3 (permalink)

GrammyBear Joy Seeker! Posts: 10,106 Blog Entries: 1 Points: 1,837,474,777,088 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: ...just over the edge Age: 54	/comfort cough Years from now this will be SO funny to you. I too am afflicted with the ability to preform feats of ease with the greatest of difficulty. __________________ Happiness is a Choice - Not an Accident! Be Yourself: Those who mind don't matter. Those who matter, won't mind. Leave good memories in the hearts of others. Proud Member: CUSA's Bookworms, Moviegoers, and Metalheads Best Wishes and Bear Hugs, GrammyBear CUSA Moderator

03-28-2008, 09:30 PM	#4 (permalink)

WoodenGypsy Junior Guru Posts: 190 Points: 1,033,278 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont	I'm sure that when I am older or maybe even next week I will laugh about this but right now I just want to get my car in a safe position at the very least. __________________ If you can't dazzle them with Brillance, then baffle them with BS

03-29-2008, 06:28 PM	#5 (permalink)

WoodenGypsy Junior Guru Posts: 190 Points: 1,033,278 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont	OK so now I have a floor jack I barrowed but I can't get it under the stupid car.What else can go wrong now? __________________ If you can't dazzle them with Brillance, then baffle them with BS

03-29-2008, 10:06 PM	#6 (permalink)

GrammyBear Joy Seeker! Posts: 10,106 Blog Entries: 1 Points: 1,837,474,777,088 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: ...just over the edge Age: 54	bless your heart, I wish I knew something to tell you to help __________________ Happiness is a Choice - Not an Accident! Be Yourself: Those who mind don't matter. Those who matter, won't mind. Leave good memories in the hearts of others. Proud Member: CUSA's Bookworms, Moviegoers, and Metalheads Best Wishes and Bear Hugs, GrammyBear CUSA Moderator

03-31-2008, 12:57 AM	#7 (permalink)

WoodenGypsy Junior Guru Posts: 190 Points: 1,033,278 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont	Right now its jut time that needs to be done getting all things together I should of had in the beginning but wasnt the right one. It will get done I'm sure I just feel like this stuff is always happening to me when I can't do anything about it. __________________ If you can't dazzle them with Brillance, then baffle them with BS

03-31-2008, 04:57 AM	#8 (permalink)

RedheadedPeach Aspiring Evangelist Posts: 500 Points: 296,702,097 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Richmond County, NC	Hold ya chin up girl..... at least you had the gumption to give it a shot.... not sit on the side of the road crying cause you don't even know if you had a jack, or what it looked like to CHECK..... unlike some female relative of mine I will not name! I had to drive nearly into Atlanta, locate her jack, and spare and change her tire for her on the side of one of Atlanta's BUSIEST Interstates! During evening RUSH HOUR traffic! GRRRRRRRRR!

04-07-2008, 06:52 AM	#9 (permalink)

WoodenGypsy Junior Guru Posts: 190 Points: 1,033,278 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont	Don't you just love relatives? That sounds like my sister, but she would of called AAA before me, I'm to far away. Well the car is still indisposed, the jack that I barrowed is no use.I truely am starting to believe that I'm not supposed to fix this stupid car. I did finally get the flat changed, I rig the two jacks to get the car enough off the ground to get that done. So now the car is at least in a safer position. I dont' have to worry about anybody touching it and it falling, but the brakes are still not done. I kicked the car and hurt my toe, that didn't help btw. I will get this done darn it!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ If you can't dazzle them with Brillance, then baffle them with BS

04-07-2008, 04:53 PM	#10 (permalink)

Precious_Shanny Premium Member Posts: 130 Points: 10,181,489,768 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: UT, USA	Gyp... POP!!!! There that put a smile on your face Haha!