Dec 2, 2011

Ben's pizza delivery, riding on the car engine

When Ben was in high school he got a job with Slice A Pizza delivering pizza’s for them. One night he called and said that the car, the family car, was running at top speed and he couldn’t get it to stop without turning off the car. Marie and I went over to see what we could do. I am no mechanic and that night only proved it again to me but I opened the hood and knew enough about cars that I could take the idling arm and push it to where the car would not run full blast. I then sat on the engine and Ben and Marie drove the several blocks to Max’s car repair where we would leave it so Max could fix it the next day. That was one interesting ride since Ben had to look between the crack of the hood and the engine to see where he was going and having no control over the speed since that was what I was doing  on the engine. We arrived quite safe and to my surprise Max and his son were there working on some cars so his son came out and took one look and freed the spring that controlled the cruise control. He then disconnected the cruise control and we ran it that way the rest of the years that we owned the car.