Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: A tow! When you call CAA, do they also send someone to put your monocle back in?

[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"][quote name="Fussbett"]So you're telling me when your mom's Datsun needs a new part she... Goes to a junkyard. Finds the correct part. Possibly removes it from an old(er) Datsun? Brings it to her car in the parking lot (fortunately it didn't need a tow) and installs it. Like, she pulls out a socket wrench set? Or whatever the poor equivalent is? ("Wrench"?) Perhaps she has an '81 Datsun 310 repair manual to guide her? Now I look stupid for questioning this.[/quote] This is Fussbett, literally flabbergasted by all the things old ladies are doing these days. "You mean to tell me she puts on <i>men's-style</i> trousers? Drives <i>herself</i> to the petrol station? <i>Opens</i> her own door? <i>Reads</i> the labels on the pumps? What next, does she break into sing-speak like the negro <i>Kanye West</i>?!" Seriously, I know you won't believe this, but my mom is actually incredibly competent and overbearing. She's also taller than I am, if that helps. [quote name="Fussbett"]I want to assume that her Forza 2-loving son might help her on the junkyard missions, but the last time he went to the junkyard he shook so badly the tray of nuts and bolts he was carrying ended up all over the ground![/quote] I think I would have to display some level of competence before she'd feel comfortable letting me work on her car. Last night she showed up at my apartment on a borrowed bicycle, she was tired from riding all day so I said why don't you let me return it for you? I practically had to pry it out of her hands, and when I got back she said she'd heard sirens and thought I might have been raped.[/quote]