Now this
happen way back when i was young. We lived out in the country a bit in
this old, raggy house that sat on top of the hill with a driveway that
came up the hill about halfway...and then circled up the hill to the
back of the house so you can park.
Following all that? it's required info, trust me lol
During this time, my brother was driving this busted ass toyota truck.
We're talking push button start, the sunroof didn't bolt down, no
passenger seat (and you could see the road thru the floor), no keys to
the door, rag stuffed in the gas filler....just a POS.
So i'm sitting at home alone late one night...i think it was a
friday...and i'm pretty sure i was grounded LOL believe it or not...i
was a terrible kid...and i'm in the living room where you can see down
the driveway. i look out, and i can see a car pull in the driveway.
about halfway up...the car turns off it's headlights so it just has
it's amber parking lights on. so all i can now see is these two amber
lights coming up the driveway. so i watch those two lights come up the
driveway...then i see one go away (meaning that the car just started to
circle the house)...when suddenly i see BOTH lights again...then one of
the lights moved ABOVE the other..and then suddenly they are both
gone??!!
WTF??!
So i go running outside....cuz i just can't wrap my mind around what i
just saw...and i see my brother's truck, laying on it's side, and
homeboy is climbing out the passenger window...which is now facing
straight up.
oh shit!
It's about this time when notice that my brother is...uhhh.."slightly
alliberated" (i found out later it was a drink called a
"screwdriver"...and i found out later in my life what THAT drink is all
about LOL). so after a few words...we decide how much trouble we're
going to be in here (well...He'll be in trouble...and he'll take it out
on me cuz i saw it all happen lol) and decide we need to fix the
situation.
So we push that heap back over on it's wheels and my brother tries to
start it. nothing. shit. so he starts rumagging under the hood and
finds the prob...one of the battery terminal connectors has been torn
off the wiring, torn off the batt...and is gone. gotta has power to
start, huh? guess we need to find that lol. so my brother and i start
searching the ground, on our hands and knees, with only a lighter to
see by.
did i mention that the truck had no gas cap? so there might have been a slight amount of gas cover the grass.
so we are now looking around the yard for this connector.
on our hands and knees.
with only a lighter to see by.
in fuel saturated grass.
suprisingly....we DIDN'T burst into flames lol.
So we find the connector, he slaps it on the batt, and...hmmm...hmmm..how is this frayed wire going to connect to that?
My brother: "ok...this is what we're going to do. you're going to take
this wire and hold it here to the battery...and i'm going to start
(meaning he's going to just push that big fucking button) the truck."
i think for a second...yeah, THIS sounds safe, "Fuck that."
LOL
"you fuggin pussy, it's not gonna hurt you i can't beleive what
a....blah blah..(i'll spare the rest of the insults)..fine! I'LL hold
this, YOU start the truck!"
i can do that :)
i hop in the truck,
"you ready?"
"yeah i'm ready you ^^$%&#%^ $%$%&&^%^ litttle %#@% mother ^$#^^&&....." you get the idea
so i hit the button.
Now.....
I'm sure that the chances of an actual lightning strike on a clear
night are fairly slim....but that HAD to be what happen! no shit! i'm
sitting there...i hit that button and all i see is bright light
surrounding a black sqaure that is the popped open hood! and someone is
screaming! oh shit! so i let go of the button (LOL opps) and run around
the front to see what happen. my brother is standing there, looking in
the engine bay, face smoking, and says, "well THAT'S not gonna work"
LOL no?
So we just decide to push his heap up the road and we'll figure the rest out tomorrow.
side note: it took MONTHS for our mom to finally see the damage and
find out her oldest son rolled his truck....in her driveway. and that
was only after we finally TOLD her about it. she never noticed on her
own.