And the list goes on...

So Mr Transmission guy tells me there is nothing wrong with my transmission, that something else is blocking the engine from getting enough power for the shifting...so the guy just pins the throttle until whatever is blocking whatever comes loose and now my car is driving normally again. Awesome?

So after work last night I get home sweet home and am looking forward to some scrabble destruction from the wrong end of a chaingun when I park....and can't turn off my car. The key won't turn backwards to disengage the engine. What the fuck? So I get all the way back out to Spruce and using some third hand mechanical advice, unplug fuses until the car just turns off. Then I unhook the battery to keep it from draining and voila, totally fucked up.

On the bright side, I got to the mechanics bright and early and my car is the first one they looked at because I beat all the appointments in. Early bird gets the car fixins.

SPRUVE, why ya gotta be so mean to me? Also, today is my day off. I was going to go see Terminator: Salvation, which I guess I can still do out here...I don't know. I want my car back by 5:30.

The internet tells me that my problem is something called an actuator rod...we'll see how right that is.

FML.