......Hear me roar......
The headlight on my car burnt out just the other day. Immediately I give my brother a call and play helpless so that he will go fetch me a new light bulb and change it for me. Only, he doesn't answer any of his 3 pay-as-you-go cell phones. In fact, two may be out of commission. So I did what anyone would do; I told my mom to call him later that night to relay the message that I needed my headlight changed.
Well, she forgot. And, let's face it, had my brother been beckoned, it could have taken weeks, if not months, to no longer drive a "pa-diddle" (is that a well known term for a car with only one headlight or just a local term?)
With a friend's inspirational quote streaming through my head, I decided to be "smart enough to read a manual, or use google" to get this hopefully simple task accomplished.
Off to Wal-Mart go I. Not even asking a Wal-Mart dude which light bulb I needed, I used the little electronic thing-a-ma-bob to select the correct bulb, learning, in the process, how much car light bulbs cost......$50 for a set of two of them! Yikes.
Page 226 of my owner's manual (yes, I actually have it and keep it in my glove box) showed me a three-step process of changing my headlight. It took all of 10 minutes, and really was easy as 1, 2, 3. No tools required. I even got my hands a little dirty. And the best news of all......They work!
Now, I am at home and a little restless because I really want to go out for a drive in the dark to see how much better my new lights work, and I will appreciate them even more knowing I did it all by myself.
ROAR!
