Car Talk

[fflo]

Here's how I'm imagining the call:

Click (or Clack): Okay, next we have Lisa.
fflo: Hi.
Clack: And where are you calling from?
fflo: Ann Arbor.
Click: Oh!
Clack: Ah! Ann Arbor! Home of the "Hah-vahd of the Midwest"?
fflo: Well, hardly.
Click: [laughs] Well, what can we do for you.

fflo: Okay, don't laugh, ...
Click 'n' Clack: [laughing]
fflo: My maybe-or-maybe-not ex-girlfriend and I recently acquired a '99 Taurus wagon with over 100,000 miles on it....

{Here there would be either derision of the Taurus, querying about the relationship, or both. Then eventually I would describe the recent repairs to the cooling system.}

fflo:... And now, for some reason, the interior smells like graham crackers.
Clack: Graham crackers?
Click: Ah, indeed! I've seen this before.
Clack: You have?
Click: No. But let me ask you this: did the previous owner have any girl scouts or campfire girls in the family?
fflo: I wish I knew.
Clack: Here's a better question---does it bother you?
fflo: Nah---I actually kind of like the smell. I'm just wondering whether it's something I should be worried about.
Clack: Sounds like you worry too much.
Click: No, no---there's a problem. The problem is obviously how to add the smells of marshmallows and slightly melty chocolate.
Clack: Oh, yes---finding just the right place under the hood to heat the chocolate some but not melt it entirely....

Comments

*laughing like a loon (internally, being at work and all) and craving S'Mores*

[groovesinorbit]

The car smells like graham crackers now? Never had that experience myself.

Here there would be either derision of the Taurus, querying about the relationship, or both.

Probably both.

[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

my car currently smells like dead fish. because we need to get the filters changed on the cooling system. but it can only be done when they recharge the cooling fluid, which they won't do because it's no longer in compliance with environmental laws. not seeing much hope on this front. i wish mine smelled like graham crackers.

[groovesinorbit]

Perhaps a little lemon . . .

[fflo.livejournal.com]

and a touch of dill? or thyme? or, like, a garlic sauce?

[groovesinorbit]

That all sounds tasty. I think I'd go for the garlic sauce. And a nice rice pilaf on the side. Oh, and a decent chardonnay. Have enough of that, you won't notice the dead fish smell as much. : )

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Somehow maybe not the BEST idea in the car, though. Even if she IS in France.

[groovesinorbit]

I suppose the rice could get messy . . .

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of M.A.C.-U.D.---Mothers Against Chardonnayed-Up Driving.

[groovesinorbit]

"Anyway we don't have to drive it honey, we can park it out in back
And have a party in your pink Cadillac"

HH

[infinitepresent.livejournal.com]

please, can you? I'll do it if you don't want to.