Worst Thanksgiving EVER!

[1BadCB]

So... yeah, as the title says I basically had a really shitty Thanksgiving.

First off was a trip to the ER. Strained lower back. UGH.

Next I found out my sister's husband has been cheating on her for 6 months.

Then, the biggie.

I go outside and start the CB....put my hand on the gearshift...solid. Nothing moved. No gears whatsoever. My tranny is f*cked.



Anyones Thanksgiving top that? lol

[fatboy1185]

Dang. Don't let it bring you down. Last time my shifter didn't move, it was just the clutch release bearing that was broken, easy and cheap fix.

[alkoholikwun]

bad back huh, how old are you

So... yeah, as the title says I basically had a really shitty Thanksgiving.

First off was a trip to the ER. Strained lower back. UGH.

Next I found out my sister's husband has been cheating on her for 6 months.

Then, the biggie.

I go outside and start the CB....put my hand on the gearshift...solid. Nothing moved. No gears whatsoever. My tranny is f*cked.



Anyones Thanksgiving top that? lol

[H22Artman]

So... yeah, as the title says I basically had a really shitty Thanksgiving.

First off was a trip to the ER. Strained lower back. UGH.

Next I found out my sister's husband has been cheating on her for 6 months.

Then, the biggie.

I go outside and start the CB....put my hand on the gearshift...solid. Nothing moved. No gears whatsoever. My tranny is f*cked.



Anyones Thanksgiving top that? lol

shitty backs suck.

your brother in law needs to get beat up.

your trans aint just gonna up and break on you like that while its parked. chances are its a broken clutch part or something like that.

[deevergote]

That sucks. I have a bad back, and I almost never work on my car because of it... back pain is the worst!

I hope your sister drops that guy ASAP, and NEVER takes him back. Once a cheater, always a cheater. If someone is capable of doing that to someone that they love, what's stopping them from doing it again? That's a lesson I learned the hard way... I pretty much lost a good 6-7 years of my life by ignoring that idea.

What's your gearshift doing? It won't move at all, or won't change gears? Is your car manual or automatic? We can't do much about your back or your sister's good for nothin' husband... but we can help with the car!

[guitarplayer825]

I really hope you beat the shit out of your brother-in-law as soon as you got out of the hospital. That really sucks man, hope you get everything figured out

[1BadCB]

Thanks guys, Im feeling a little better today...I've been stressing super bad lately. It seems like everything gets piled on me all at once. To make things worse its finals week.

My gearshift acted like it was stuck between third and fourth (manual trans.) but the more I messed with it, the less it would move. Its been acting up a lot during the last couple months so I really wasn't surprised that it finally gave it up. On the upside, should have another one in this weekend. And a new clutch.

[1BadCB]

bad back huh, how old are you

Im 18....But I'm very athletic and have had a lot of athletic injuries in my high school days. I suffer for it now.

[mncb7]

Sorry to hear about your news.

[deevergote]

Thanks guys, Im feeling a little better today...I've been stressing super bad lately. It seems like everything gets piled on me all at once. To make things worse its finals week.

My gearshift acted like it was stuck between third and fourth (manual trans.) but the more I messed with it, the less it would move. Its been acting up a lot during the last couple months so I really wasn't surprised that it finally gave it up. On the upside, should have another one in this weekend. And a new clutch.

It could be a bad shifter fork... or possibly low fluid levels (mine shifted much more easily when I replaced the fluid). That, or your clutch isn't working properly.

Either way, a new clutch and transmission will certainly fix the problem! Make sure your master and slave cylinders are good also.

Are you getting another Accord transmission, or are you going to go with a Prelude transmission for shorter gearing?




And yeah... everything ALWAYS hits at once. If I think back to any of the major hardships in my life, I can tell you at least 3 or 4 others that occurred at the same time! Life doesn't get any easier as you get older... you just start caring less.

[H22Artman]

Life doesn't get any easier as you get older... you just start caring less.

until you have kids....
i find myself cynical as ever when it comes to certain things, but when it relates to your kid or family in even the slightest way it seems to carry a huge emotional impact behind it.

catch22a to the extreme.

fuck the world and almost everyone in it from now until i'm gone.
but at the same time this stupid world better take good care of my little angel....

[deevergote]

That's very true. I don't mean that you don't care about the world... just that life's difficulties never ease up... but you tend to accept it as normal as you get older.

Though young life's problems only look trivial in retrospect. At the time, they felt no less serious than the grownup problems experienced later. And today's grownup problems are probably going to look trivial when I'm suffering from old people problems!

[nine_deuce]

When life seems a bit overwhelming, get drunk, go poop, take pics, post on the net.

[robert@bisimoto]

That sucks. I have a bad back, and I almost never work on my car because of it... back pain is the worst!

I hope your sister drops that guy ASAP, and NEVER takes him back. Once a cheater, always a cheater. If someone is capable of doing that to someone that they love, what's stopping them from doing it again? That's a lesson I learned the hard way... I pretty much lost a good 6-7 years of my life by ignoring that idea.

What's your gearshift doing? It won't move at all, or won't change gears? Is your car manual or automatic? We can't do much about your back or your sister's good for nothin' husband... but we can help with the car!

Sorry 1BabCb for your bad Thanksgiving. Hey Deev, what happened? What did you do? My finance cheated on me. Im still with her but I want to move on. Help me. Lol. Im still young and I don't want to loose any years in my life.

[deevergote]

Sorry 1BabCb for your bad Thanksgiving. Hey Deev, what happened? What did you do? My finance cheated on me. Im still with her but I want to move on. Help me. Lol. Im still young and I don't want to loose any years in my life.

How old are you, Robert?

Ditch her. Now.

I was married, briefly. I married the girl that I met on my 18th birthday. We were off and on for 8 years, and she cheated on me once, and we "broke up" a few times so she could date other guys... I should have learned then.

We got married when I was 26, and I came to learn that she had been cheating on me... since before we got married. Her best friend, the guy she was fooling around with, was also married... so she basically married me because he wasn't available. 7 months in, I learned about it. I still wanted to fix things, like an idiot.

Divorce took about 2 years. It was completed last July (could've been sooner, but I had to start working 110 hours a week to pay for my cars, house, and debts incurred for the wedding since "we" paid for it ourselves)

Here I am at 29, trying to remember how to date again. It's been 11 years since I dated, so I'm working with the dating skillset of an awkward 18 year old! In addition to that, I also have to bear the black mark of being divorced... no girl wants a "damaged" guy. No girl wants to be "the second wife". I've already met and lost what may have been the girl of my dreams for this very reason.


Feel free to PM me. This is my house, so most people already know my story (and those that don't, I don't mind sharing... it's nothing I'm ashamed of). If you would like to discuss things privately, I'd be happy to help where I can. Aside from my life experiences, I'm also about to begin a doctoral program for marriage and family therapy... (not that I can give official advice, but from one car guy to another, I can offer at least some useful words)