Monday, December 26, 2005

Southernisms Volume 2: Duct Tape on My Car

I now feel like a complete Southerner. Yesterday, I unfortunately realized the hard way that my sunroof in my 1996 Geo Prizm was leaking. I have now joined the legions of Southerners that I have seen in Nashville that chose to fix a problem on their car with duct tape. I got the finest black duct tape Pep Boys had (to match the black paint on the car) and taped the sunroof shut. Hasn't leaked today, but then again, it hasn't rained. Also doesn't look that bad as the black matches the black of the car.

However, I'm looking forward to getting it fixed.

2 comments:

dreadbiscuit said...

There was a post on boingboing a few months ago on how to make a duct tape wallet. Make the wallet and your journey will be complete.

byaspan said...

Actually, I'm currently using duct tape to make a cruise control for the car. I have the gas pedal taped sown so the car accelerates on its own. ow I just need to figure out how to make it stop accelerating. Maybe duct taping the brakes?