I am awake at the ungodly hour of 8am today. Sure, it’s ok if you have a job but I don’t right now. It’s my own fault really. See, I messed up my parent’s car when I tried to install a new car stereo. Let me go back to the beginning.
I have had this car stereo since my 18th birthday. My sister said that I would need this since I was then newly able to drive and would own a car. Well, 8 years later and I still don’t own one so I thought I may as well make use of it. So, armed with tools of various shapes and the can-do spirit, I opened up the car.
Taking the old one out was easy. There were screws that needed to be unscrewed, there were plugs that needed unplugging. Then it got tricky. The plug for the new one was different and there was no way to go about connecting it up.
But I had the can-do spirit.
“What would an electrician do?” I thought. He’d do what was necessary. So I cut up the plugs and sorted the wires into their various colors. Now, to put them together. It was at this point, as I looked at the hodgepodge collection of wires and plugs on the floor that I realized that there was really no going back from here.
But I had the can-do spirit.
I knew that the red, yellow and black wires were special ones. Red seemed to be the main electrical current, black was definitely the earth. Yellow was also an important one. Those colors matched, so I twisted them around the equivalent wires in my new stereo and wrapped them up in black tape. The eight other multicolored wires just looked at me reproachfully. “Think you’re a big man?” they said.
But I…. well now I was a little worried.
Blue and purple are kind of the same, right? Or maybe it’s pink and purple? As I slid the new stereo into the socket, my colored wires tangled about each other, I wasn’t completely confident that everything had gone to plan. So when I hooked up the car battery and smoke started coming from my new stereo and the fuses broke in the car I guessed my career as a car electrician might have to be put on hold for a while.
So here I am, getting up at 8 to take the car in and get a newer stereo to be fitted by someone qualified to do such things. I sure would like to know what he makes of all these colored wires though.
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