sillinnoyed

That stupidly-uncooperative electromechanical switch on your car’s starter that always malfunctions at the worst times, causing you to feel extremely put out.

The sillinnoyed on my car decided to "go dormant" this evening when a local fellow of "questionable nature" stopped by to ask me for a ride, but I think that maybe it was actually just as well that the engine didn't crank in that instance, since I have serious doubts that the dude would actually have been able to come up with the two bucks in gas-money that he’d promised me (“I’m broke myself, but I can ask the other folks in the house for the money when we get there.” Yeah, right --- as if any of his equally-deadbeat pals would likely have had any spare cash, either?!). After he’d walked far enough down the road to be out of earshot, I tried tapping lightly on the starter and switch-housing with a hammer, and then the engine whirled right over… I've always considered my old clunker to be a good and faithful friend to me, so I wonder if perhaps Jalopy had been trying to tell me something, like that maybe I should stop giving people a ride unless they actually have gas-money with them to pay me up-front for said ride.

sillinnoyed by QuacksO November 8, 2018