More Goat Bell

Hello world, today I faced a slight delima. You see, I have an appointment with my therapist later this afternoon and I noticed last night that the driver's side break light is out. Husby was busying working on his own car so he never got around to changing it out for me. Today after he left for work it dawned on me that I had an appointment in town that is a 20+minute drive away. I am super paranoid of getting tickets. I haven't had one in years but still get all kinds of anxious if I see a cop car behind me.

What was a girl with very little car tech expertise to do? Well, I grabbed me a screw driver and told myself, "It can't be that hard!". OK, so it's 2 screws. No problem, except that the screw driver I grabbed was to short to reach them. Faced with the task of tackling the husbands way disorganized garage I sprayed myself down with some off, crossed myself and said a prayer.

Inside the garage is damp and muggy from the rains we've received lately, the mosquitoes and wasps were busy checking me out but luckily nothing landed on me (you might remember that I. HATE. BUGS!!) so no helter skelter running around screaming while trying to get them off me. I finally find a Phillips screw driver and go back to tackling the brake light cover.


Two screws out and it looks like it should be a simple tug. I give it a quick tug. Nothing happens. I swear somewhere there are a bunch of dead mechanics laughing at me. I start tugging at it again, jiggling it and trying to pull it straight out. That bitch is NOT budging. I sit there staring at it trying to find the one hidden screw that I had to have missed. I finally give up and go worship the Google gods.



With the help of Google I learned that you have to tug it sideways, not just straight out! Right, so I head back out into the Texas exhaustive heat to do battle with this over priced tin can again. Wiggle the thing side to side and it pops right off. Cool! I can see it has three lights to choose from, I choose the middle thinking that has to be the break light. It then occurs to me that I haven't located the replacement bulb yet! Back into the garage I go.

Ten minutes of searching and still no dice. It then occurs to me that this bulb looks like it's fine. Maybe it's not the bulb. I go pull apart the passenger side light and switch the bulbs. Voila! It works in the passenger side. I put it all back together and decide to test my theory as the husband pulls up for lunch.




I was surprised he didn't laugh at me. He checks over my work and tells me to turn the lights on and then hit the breaks, when I walk to the back of the truck I see 2 red lights! Woot! I did it! Right? No? Apparently there is a difference between running lights and breaks lights. All I'd managed to do was switch the running lights. The break light still wasn't working.

Doh! Yeah, laugh at me. I did!