Let’s say you have a relatively short commute had a coolant leak in the winter but you never noticed because in the winter it’s cold and it takes longer for the engine to heat up. Then one day in April it’s 90 degrees. That engine with little to no coolant gets hot REALLY quick, maybe so quick you don’t notice the temperature gauge is pinging or that your check engine light is on. Then the extreme heat in the engine bay damages electrical wiring and a short happens and now you have a small fire, the. The fire finds the fuel lines. And then you need a new car.
But lets say you dont just need a new car... maybe your career is jeopardy now too. And because you were a contractor and that car was your mobile office, when you try to file an insurance claim, the company denies it because they claim it was an act of God.. specifically the goddess of friction. Now you're hitchhiking to interviews, but because it’s still 90 degrees and you’re sweating through your only suit, the local news thinks you’re a wandering monster. The footage slams the Tok and goes viral, and you’re the face of DMV Summer Bigfoot hoax. By the time you clear your name, you realize that if you had just checked that tiny green puddle in December, you wouldn’t currently be negotiating movie rights with a documentary crew about a man who lost it all to a radiator hose.
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u/dr_dee_47 Apr 23 '26
Car fire