Stories From the Front Seat: Can Garlic Knots Cause Car Trouble?
The other day, I called home to New York and was talking to my mom on the phone when she told me a funny story. She drives a Honda Accord and has never had any problems with it. However, on this one particular day, her car wouldn’t start. She had errands to run and with no one else around to jump start her car (which was still parked in the driveway), she ended up having to call AAA.
AAA arrived within thirty minutes to try to jump start her car, but when they opened the hood of her car, they discovered that the reason her car wouldn’t start was because the connecting rod was totally corroded. I laughed when my mother told me all of this because not even two weeks before this incident, she had had her car inspected at the dealership. And now, this was where she would have to take it to address the current problem.
To make things even more unsettling, the gentleman from AAA also brought something else to my mother’s attention. Located right near the connecting rod was a single garlic knot. At this point, I couldn’t stop laughing. As it turns out, when my mom last brought her car into the Honda dealership, someone must’ve been working “extra hard” on her vehicle- so diligently, in fact, that they didn’t even stop for their lunch break. Instead, they insisted on eating while working. I still wonder whether or not the garlic knot factored into all of this. It probably didn’t, but wouldn’t it have been funny if it did?!
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Maybe it’s just the fact that I live in North Carolina where the majority of people dominating the roadways seem to own SUVs and pickup trucks. However, it was recently brought to my attention via numerous conversations with friends and acquaintances, just how aggressive people in pickup trucks seem to be. And after paying closer attention to this, I realized that the stereotype is right. What is it About Pickup Trucks and Aggresion? In the opinion of one of my friends, when discussing why people in pickup trucks are reckless, he responded: “I think it’s because they feel like they have a sense of entitlement…Because they are typically driving a bigger vehicle, they feel like they own the road; that and the fact that I think they watch too much Nascar…” One thing is for certain, I actually tested out the theory that those driving pickup trucks are, indeed, extraordinarily aggressive. For three days, when I drove to and from work, I purposely paid attention to how many cars were driving aggressively past other vehicles. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), the overwhelming majority of aggressive drivers were those behind the wheel of pickup trucks. In my daily travels, I was able to observe them weaving in and out of lanes without signaling, speeding to get around other “slower” drivers without indicating, running red lights, cutting others off and revving their engines at stoplights. And so now I pose the question: “Do you think that people who drive pickup trucks are more or less aggressive than other drivers?”
