MDM got a phone call at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. It wasn't an elf wanting to know where to deliver my new Jeep Wrangler. It was another elf who said she was broke down in West Covina and her car was on fire! Sixty miles from home.So MDM threw his tools in the truck and headed down the hill with the Mom. Found the elf at a Shell gas station eating pizza. Gangsters kept driving by her black 1999 Mercury Cougar giving us the eye. I got chewed out by the elf for giving them the eye back.
Turns out the elf's car lost it's water pump belt and it got hot under the hood sort to speak. By this time it was after 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve and nothing was open except the guy on the corner selling little plastic bags. Things did not look good. But then, at the last moment, a light shown in the east and MDM had an epiphany! Make your own belt!
MDM gathered up string and wire and grass and twigs and made a band that looked just like a bungee cord with the hooks cut off. It worked perfectly! We kept the rpm's below 2000 and hit the interstate. Max speed - 45 mph. We got the elf home at 10 p.m. and she promptly jumped in MDM's truck and drove off to the elves' Christmas party with her elfin boyfriend.
MDM hit the Jack and took the Mom to bed.
Merry Christmas!
Very Scary!
