Revelations to me
Monday, February 2nd, 2009Some things I’ve learned lately. I try to keep learning all the time, whether I’m making an active effort of it or not:
1) When you’re under your car doing an oil change, and you push up on your driveshaft just for fun, and it flexes upwards a few inches, no, this is not normal behavior. You need to get it fixed. 
2) The distributor cap and rotor on your car are not hard to change. Do it now.
3) Sadly enough, sometimes Windows XP works better on laptops than Ubuntu, if the laptop is more than four or five years old.
4) The people working at Autozone don’t know jack shit about cars 90% of the time. Don’t insult them, just prepare yourself to talk to someone who doesn’t know the difference between a greaseable u-joint and a non-greaseable u-joint (even though the names are pretty self-explanatory).
5) Consolidating your loans is pretty easy, as long as you remember your government pin-number (that you haven’t used for years).
6) Whenever you get a new cell phone plan, even on contract, you have a federally-mandated 14-day “buyer’s remorse” period in which you can return your cell phone and cancel the contract without any repercussions. Don’t listen to the salesperson if they say “no, you don’t” — oftentimes, like the Autozone employees mentioned up above, they don’t know a damn thing.
7) Make sure the spare tire in your car is properly inflated, or else you may find yourself changing a flat tire one day that your car has developed, only to find the spare you just pulled out of your trunk is flat as well.
…and that’s about it for now.
