This morning I was on the first few miles of my trip to work and came up to a red light. It's a long light and I was sleepy so my mind began to wander. Unexpectedly, the light turns green and I proceed to stall out for the first time since taking ownership . Then, my natural reaction for stalling is to immediately nail the clutch and twist the key, but of course this didn't work! Now people are honking and trying to get into the next lane over, which IS moving. I finally hit the start button and take off in all my glory.

Does the story stop there? No, of course not! The temp gauge had been at 3 bars for about a minute already, but when I hit 6k rpms in first doing my getaway, the fuel cut out (also a first). My stook jerked about like an angry silver bull and so I had to row through the gears without vtech, finally escaping onto the highway. What a morning! I can just imagined what I would've grumbled under my breath had it been someone else's little escapade.

[Edited by wake88 on 05-02-2001 at 04:28 AM]

 

Just write it off as one of those mornings when "feces occurs"

 

Was that YOU????? ahahahah

Scot

 

I call that a "senior moment"

 

This has happened to me more than once. I usually find myself on an incline when it happens. My favorite one was when I first had the car and decided to drop the top at a stoplight. Pretty cool, until the light changed and I gunned it, only to realize that I hadn't released the e-brake. Lurch, stall; die! I'm sure the aggravated drivers behind me were thinking . . . "MORON!"

 

The only thing that I forget is that it's 6-speed as opposed to my Civic which is 4, so I often shift wrong. Totally letting cars pass.

 

but I'm only 23!!!