car woes: vol. clutch!

Last Friday, I accompanied my mom to her Mary Kay meeting. Since she was now a director, she have a lot of people under her joining the MK bandwagon. She asked me to drive the others para may masakyan towards the meeting in Makati at the MK headquarters.

All was well during the trip towards there. A little bit traffic here in there, but hey, its EDSA so its normal. After enduring the all-girls meeting (i'm the only guy there. well, there's tito jun, who's gay, so he doesn't count! haha ;p), we're off home.

And then, shit happened. SUPER TRAFFIC SA EDSA! Which was surprising since its already 11pm on a Friday night! The traffic looked like straight from a hectic 8am Monday morning! As in buhol! But that's only the tip of the iceberg...

Biglang nagloko ang clutch nung car! As in lumulubog! Supposedly, pag tinapakan mo ang clutch, babalik dapat kaagad pag binitawan mo... yung nangyari, naiiwan! So yung effect nun, lumulubog ang clutch at hindi ko ma-change gear pag nangyari yun! And I endured that with heavy traffic from Makati until Cubao! And to make matters worse, bumara talaga siya dun sa bukanan sa Cubao! Kaya pala kasi traffic, may inaayos sa underpass ng Cubao! Tapos dun pa ako tumirik! Buti nalang pumasok din yung gear! Grabe, as in all throughout nung traffic, super gamit ako ng handbrake!

Fortunately, the next day, dadating si Mang Boy--my mom's driver. Dadalhin niya dapat yung isang car sa Banawe para paayos yung aircon. Nakakatawa kasi nung morning, tulog pa ako tapos ginigising nila ako. Pina test drive raw kay Mang Boy yung kotse tapos sabi maayos naman daw. So gagamitin nalang daw ni mama yung car habang pinapaayos ni Mang Boy yung Honda sa Banawe.

Sabi ko, "Sige, bahala kayo. Basta sabi ko, sira yan ah!". Later that afternoon, I learned from my ate na tumirik pala sila ni mama sa labasan kasi ayaw pumasok yung gear! Hahaha! Buti nalang daw palabas rin si mang Boy ng subdivision at nag-swap na sila ng kotse muna para unahin yung Toyota! Hahaha!

By the evening, ayos na yung car. Pinalitan yung pump sa may clutch area kasi bumigay na raw... kaya pala bumabara yung clutch pag tinapakan. Hehe. Buti nalang ayos na since may get together ulit kina Mark at kailangan ko ng car! Haha!