Tombstone to ET
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ch3coohET has acquired a possibly semi-permanent, hand-carved marble tombstone from one of it's summer residents. This is the story of how it came from campus to ET at 12:30am last night.:
I got a call from Dragon (owner of tombstone) at 11:05 last night asking "hey, where are you, we need to get this out of here tonight." So I caught the 11:15 Saferide back to ET and found the van to have a dead battery. Getting the hood open was an epic puzzle in itself -- took me nearly 20min since ET evidently has *no* working flashlights :-P. Fist step was finding this small lever on the driver's side and then sitting on the driveway for 10 minutes staring at the still-closed latch under the hood (now exposed by popping the hood with the lever) until I realized it needed to be pushed sideways 1cm in order to uncatch. But, - oh *no* - ET has no jumper cables either! So I need to go to Comm. Ave. at 12:15 now to catch a cab, but, wait, I have no money (HSSP really soaks it out of the Directors - program's supposed to go overbudget of 400 students * $30 = $12,000 and about 1/4 of that passes through the directors - HSSP owes me about $2000 right now. :-P). But I know that ET keeps a big cup of spare change so I grab that and offer to exchange with a few other summer residents. One of them thinks it would be hillarious to pay off his friend in dimes and nickels, so I get $15 with a promise to count it out later. I run down to Comm. Ave. Grab a cab, but, WAIT - IT CAN'T START. At this point I kind of feel like I'm exuding a negative charge field, but I ask the driver if he has jumper cables and he says yes. Then another cab, seeing us stranded, offers a ride, and the two drivers negotiate (in some language that I can't understand at all, with a lot of clicks and pops) that the latter can take the former's jumper cable and help me jump the van. So I take this cab and the cables up to ET and after two tries (black of working, running car -black of discharged batterg, /then/ red of working - (*be careful, it sparks*) red of disfunctional car, and then start the disfunctional car). Fails. The driver tells me to get water, sketchily washes the corrosion off of ET's engine, and tries again. AND IT STARTS! So, then to campus, pick up this 250lb beautifully hand-carved tombstone (white marble relief of a crouched girl), and back to ET where it now sits in the living room. :-) One hell of a night!
pict of Dragon's tombstone: http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff299/barnest/?action=view¤t=IMG_2071.jpg
I got a call from Dragon (owner of tombstone) at 11:05 last night asking "hey, where are you, we need to get this out of here tonight." So I caught the 11:15 Saferide back to ET and found the van to have a dead battery. Getting the hood open was an epic puzzle in itself -- took me nearly 20min since ET evidently has *no* working flashlights :-P. Fist step was finding this small lever on the driver's side and then sitting on the driveway for 10 minutes staring at the still-closed latch under the hood (now exposed by popping the hood with the lever) until I realized it needed to be pushed sideways 1cm in order to uncatch. But, - oh *no* - ET has no jumper cables either! So I need to go to Comm. Ave. at 12:15 now to catch a cab, but, wait, I have no money (HSSP really soaks it out of the Directors - program's supposed to go overbudget of 400 students * $30 = $12,000 and about 1/4 of that passes through the directors - HSSP owes me about $2000 right now. :-P). But I know that ET keeps a big cup of spare change so I grab that and offer to exchange with a few other summer residents. One of them thinks it would be hillarious to pay off his friend in dimes and nickels, so I get $15 with a promise to count it out later. I run down to Comm. Ave. Grab a cab, but, WAIT - IT CAN'T START. At this point I kind of feel like I'm exuding a negative charge field, but I ask the driver if he has jumper cables and he says yes. Then another cab, seeing us stranded, offers a ride, and the two drivers negotiate (in some language that I can't understand at all, with a lot of clicks and pops) that the latter can take the former's jumper cable and help me jump the van. So I take this cab and the cables up to ET and after two tries (black of working, running car -black of discharged batterg, /then/ red of working - (*be careful, it sparks*) red of disfunctional car, and then start the disfunctional car). Fails. The driver tells me to get water, sketchily washes the corrosion off of ET's engine, and tries again. AND IT STARTS! So, then to campus, pick up this 250lb beautifully hand-carved tombstone (white marble relief of a crouched girl), and back to ET where it now sits in the living room. :-) One hell of a night!
pict of Dragon's tombstone: http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff299/barnest/?action=view¤t=IMG_2071.jpg
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