We live in Ohio, and I knew that this year could be the year, the way the weather has been, and today, around 3:30 today, we left our apartment, got in the van, backed out, then into Drive and the van, with a surge of power, started moving forward.
I looked around the van, checked the weather outside, and then, realized that something was wrong, dreadfully wrong. I knew what I had to do.
I reached for the dashboard, that middle dial that is visible at the top there, and turned it, from BLUE to RED. It faltered, it was tired, used well beyond its intended time. Red one day, blue the next, then red, then blue, every day another color, sometimes, red in the morning and blue in the afternoon. It could take no more.
I started blaming General Motors, Chevy, anyone, then I realized, the blame was on the Ohio weather. No hot season and cold season, just every day, red or blue, that switch has lived far longer than anticipated by those engineers at GM.
