I liked my car more when it had functional brakes.

Sunday afternoon I was going to drive to my gaming session, but when I pulled up to the end of my driveway and tried to stop and look both ways, my car sailed right out into the street, my brakes not really doing anything until I was way out into the road. Thankfully no one was coming either way. I backed up the driveway, and again the brakes didn't seem to be working well. I tried to pull into my parking space, and the car accelerated on its own and I had to shift it into park so I wouldn't crash into the stone wall between us and the neighbors. This was rather upsetting. Actually, it freaked the hell out of me. It was bad enough to feel myself oozing out into the road not knowing if anyone was about to crash into me from either side, but it was damn freaky to feel the car suddenly jolt backwards toward the wall. Fortunately I was already poised to shift into Park in order to stop if the brakes failed again, so I managed to stop in time.

The irony is that I was planning to get my oil changed and get my inspection sticker for the month on Monday. Hah ha. I guess neither of those things will be happening. Instead, it will probably get towed to the mechanic whenever he's got some time to look at it, and we'll take it from there. When I got home from my game (I was given a ride each way, since my car was obviously out of action) I had a note in my dad's writing that my brakeline is broken. I doubt that's something we can fix here, and that doesn't address the sudden acceleration problem, I don't think, so it's off to the mechanic.

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- Fair Folk riding Manta Ray Hosted on deviantART.

Another piece for Exalted. This is Pelirion, a Fair Folk noble who approached the ship while lounging in a chair poised on the back of a manta ray. Those wacky Fair Folk - they do like to travel in style.