Today has been interesting to say the least. When RamMan was in town I had some vinyl come loose in my car on the passenger side door. Here's a picture;
It's happened before with another door so I knew how to fix it just had to wait until a nice day.
So yesterday was pretty nice here, I went outside and tried to fix the door using the same stuff I used last time, but for some reason this time around it wasn't working. I messed with it for a few hours and used up what I had left of the glue trying to fix this thing but it was a no go. Finally I just gave up and called it quits for the day, deciding that today I would go out the next day and find some new glue.
After spending the night searching the Internet for the best kind of stuff to use on vinyl and then when I got up I went off to Auto Zone find this glue. Here's where my interesting day started.
I got there and I didn't see the glue I was after, so I asked the guy what kind of glue would be good to glue vinyl and we get into a twenty minute discussion about different glues and stuff. The man is an older gentlemen, really nice and seemed really well informed so I figured I would take a shot in the dark and describe the old glue residue left behind.
Well he said it sounded like some stuff called Indian Schlack so he goes and gets a bottle and shows it to me;
I honestly have no idea, so I tell him that I have the car right outside and if he wanted to look maybe he could make sure before I spent the cash on it. Well this is exactly what he said to me;
"Aw, hell, I wouldn't know what that stuff looked like even if I did it myself."
So... yeah... I'm standing there taken aback for a minute, thinking; "Okay, not even five seconds ago you told me it sounded like that stuff and now your telling me you wouldn't know what it looked like?". So I just finally ask for the stuff I originally came for and he said he had some in the back, so I purchased it and left.
On the way home, I was feeling a little hungry so I decided to stop at McDonalds and get me something, figured it also wouldn't hurt to get another free Coke glass. Well, the thing is about the McDonalds in my area, its right next to a four way traffic light, four lanes of traffic and it can be very, very hard to get out of there and go to the left.
So I'm sitting there with my food, waiting, traffics backed up, well somebody decided to let me out so I inch my way out, peak around her car see its clear and go for it, well as soon as I clear her car (I'm in the second lane of traffic at this point heading to the median), this car come flying up doing way past the posted speed limit. I had to floor it to keep them from hitting me, I got into the median but at this point I'm speeding like crazy myself and there was this other car stopped just a few feet away in the median waiting to turn so I had to merge into traffic and cut this car off.
Ugh, was almost in three accidents, all because one dumb person decided that they couldn't be late for wherever it was they were going? Oh I was mad, but I went home, sat in the car, ate my sandwich and then decided to get to work.
At first the new glue wasn't wanting to work with me, but then I finally got it figured out and after about three and a half hours worth of work I got it all done, as you can see;
It's not perfect, sure, but considering I've only done this about one other time I say this is a pretty damn good job. I may be a nerd, but I can get something fixed if you give me enough time to figure it out!
Well, its nearly 3:30am, so I'm going to bed. Got to get my teeth drilled in the morning, yay! (not)
Until next time,
Nerdy Man
