Car Saves Fire Company

[ellyssian]

Bessie, a fifteen year old Ford Taurus, may be facing imminent death and destruction - including a possible rollover and an intimate encounter with the jaws of life and other assorted hacking, slashing, and breaking tools - but she still went out of her way to help save a fire company from the very embarrassing fate of burning to the ground.

Where newscasters all over the area might have had the opportunity to come up with snide remarks and hinting at the ironic death of a fire station, thanks to Bessie they had to find other things to sensationalizereport.

Some background, for those who may have missed the posts: a month ago I bought my wife a new car because the old one - that would be Bessie - broke. My wife pulled into the library, and the gas tank strap fell off. It had rusted away to nothing. The week before, she had pulled in - thankfully, head-in parking with a curb - to go to the same library and the rear brake lines rusted through and fell apart. Back in June we had been alerted that Bessie would never again pass an inspection - and that was without them realizing there was a hole in the top of the gas tank. Since we couldn't live with ourselves if we gave Bessie to someone else to drive, we decided to donate her to sciencefire fighters.

After the party Saturday night, Deb's cousin's husband took Bessie away, and dropped her off at the fire company for later entertainmenttraining purposes. While there, he went into the building briefly. When he got in the car, he smelled like cooking oil. He explained that there had been a party there earlier. My wife's cousin decided that smell was a bit too strong for such a short time of exposure, so she sent him back in.

He discovered that not only had the fryers been left on (which is, of course, a no-no), but something had been draped over the top of them.

If they weren't there to drop off Bessie, the place would have gone up in smoke.

Bessie, for her part, most likely won't be going up in smoke, as the DEP apparently frowns on such things these days. There will, however, be video taken of the festivities, so perhaps Bessie may rise again and you may yet get a chance to see her in her final hour.

Comments

[opakele.livejournal.com]

Ha! Good old Bessie...she is a good old car.