"That's Weird"

Monday

We certainly have an interesting fleet.  It really seems like the vans rotate between being in and out of commission.  The big van's brakes were making a clicking sound this morning, so we had our mechanic friend come over to look at it, and he and Nancy fixed it up.  This is the van with no visibility out the rear view mirror (since there is insulation covering most of the inside, including the back windows), and only a quarter of the original visibility out of the driver side mirror, since one 3x3 inch patch is all that shows through the duct tape that holds the mirror together after some long-ago accident.  The back doors are a bit odd as I have described before, and the molded plastic piece that belongs between the front seats (it has the ashtray, cigarette lighter, and cupholders) currently inhabits a spot in the front yard right between two computer monitors.  The left turn signal runs on manual operation.

So today we were restricted to the smaller van, the caravan.  This vehicle has a large curved gash in the windshield, an arc scratched out by the metal arm of an old windshield wiper that no longer had a blade.  The back door doesn't open, the gas tank can only be filled three quarters of the way, as a leak will waste any additional gas you might add.  While station surfing this morning, Jason explained to me that the radio only receives certain stations, and *Hot 97 Boston* is not among them.  Immediately after he had explained this, we caught just two words from the next station: "That's weird."

Eh.  Not a bad vehicle for $200 bucks though.  And the big van was only $1400.