ConCONcon 2021 – page 2
I’m not sure if this is the sort of thing I’ll be worrying about LESS or MORE once I start making more trips again. On the one hand, being less used to something tends to make everything feel bigger, so I might over-react to every shimmy and shake way more than is justified as seen here. But on the other hand, maybe the fact that I’ve barely done more than drive across town for over a year means I’ll be lulled into a false sense of security and I might take things less seriously than I should? It could honestly go either way, especially with what a smoking, rusted, shambling lump my van is. It’s paradoxically so close to falling apart that, at this point, nothing it does is really concerning anymore.
It’s basically a warning that, if at all possible, you should get a mechanic to check your vehicle before going for a road trip that’s far enough to worry about breakdowns over. If possible, because finance limitations.
Oh, this van is already well beyond that point. Even before everything started shutting down last year, I’d already told all my con buddies that I wasn’t offering anyone rides anymore because I couldn’t trust the thing to get where we were going. At this point, I avoid driving that thing any farther from home than I’d be willing to walk back on foot if it broke down.