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Harbor Freight:Having direct a life of high adventure in my youth, scaling pinnacles of rocks and ice, I in no way imagined that I’d fulfill my end, flat on my back again crushed beneath a dropping car. i experienced been setting a brand new land-speed report for butt-shoulder-shuffling on my way out from under the creaking, swaying mass of 1999 Volkswagen New Beetle, shaped steel groaning menacingly above my body. Moments prior to the VW started out moving it experienced been resting firmly on my tried, and until-that-moment trusted ramps and jack-stands. But now i experienced been going to die, life flashing prior to my eyes, staring swaying death within the deal with as my wife’s “cute bug” transformed into Damocles’ Sword, or Poe’s Pendulum, my garage ground actively playing the Pit. The tremor ceased as my head cleared the oil pan, and the Beetle slowed, then stopped making the horrific creaking noises since the jack-stands stopped wobbling. I cleared the bumper and leapt to my ft in a single motion, and relief swept more than me like the anticipated post-quake tidal wave should. “Damn, I’m nonetheless alive!… in fact… I’m totally unharmed!” operating into the house I yelled at the family: ‘Did you guys feel that?!” … only to be met with a non-chalant: “feel what?”

In retrospect the tremor which scared me out from under the auto was only a barely-rattle-the-china 3.2 on the Richter Scale, but it drove home an indelible lesson to this DIY mechanic residing in a location where three tectonic plates meet: I have to obtain a lift!