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I know I'm a woman driver ..
Aug. 20th, 2015 07:37 pmbut I do know when there's something wrong with my car. Took my car in yesterday to have the brake pads replaced, because they were due - a simple matter. I'm driving home on the fast lane of the motorway overtaking a lorry overtaking a lorry when my car begins to vibrate. And not just a little bit due to the road surface, but up through my arms and into my body. Not nice. As soon as I can I pull into the slow lane and continue at 60mph and all is fine. Move out to overtake another lorry, do about 70 (nothing excessive) and the vibration is back again. Get home and mention it to SM, who drives car and confirms I'm right, there's a problem.
So I phone the garage to tell them and they don't know how it could happen - am I sure it wasn't happening already? They say bring it back and they'll look at it. Return car to garage repeat tale and no, it wasn't happening before. They discover wheels were out of balance (well, duh), no idea how this could have happened, it must have been doing so already. Emphatically repeat it wasn't. I drive up and down the motorway every day and do more than 70 (never that much more officer, nothing to trouble you) and I think I would have noticed a vibration of that size. I just put on my "Don't mess with me, you are a mere man" face.
Like half my flist I've done the Tumblr meme to find my three top tropes, in joint first position are Hurt/Comfort; Seemingly Unrequited Pining; Friends to Lovers. Seems to be a recurring theme. There were however a lot of tropes missing: Buddy Cop, Humour, Crack - probably over half of what floats my boat, so possibly not the most surprising meme.
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draycevixen I currently have 277 works archived on AO3. Pick a number from 1 (most recent) to 277 (first AO3) posting and I'll tell you three things I like about it.
So I phone the garage to tell them and they don't know how it could happen - am I sure it wasn't happening already? They say bring it back and they'll look at it. Return car to garage repeat tale and no, it wasn't happening before. They discover wheels were out of balance (well, duh), no idea how this could have happened, it must have been doing so already. Emphatically repeat it wasn't. I drive up and down the motorway every day and do more than 70 (never that much more officer, nothing to trouble you) and I think I would have noticed a vibration of that size. I just put on my "Don't mess with me, you are a mere man" face.
Like half my flist I've done the Tumblr meme to find my three top tropes, in joint first position are Hurt/Comfort; Seemingly Unrequited Pining; Friends to Lovers. Seems to be a recurring theme. There were however a lot of tropes missing: Buddy Cop, Humour, Crack - probably over half of what floats my boat, so possibly not the most surprising meme.
And, because three things make a post, nicked from
draycevixen I currently have 277 works archived on AO3. Pick a number from 1 (most recent) to 277 (first AO3) posting and I'll tell you three things I like about it. 
