Guys,<\/p>\n
Louise is in an RV mechanics chat room right now diagnosing why the front floorboards are 437 degrees.<\/p>\n
She just asked for my PayPal password.<\/p>\n
She is reading responses from Pearl, Gene and Tito.<\/p>\n
She is flipping through the RV manual and saying words I don’t understand like, “alternator” and “inverter.”<\/p>\n
She’s talking to Pearl in this strange new lingo and I’m kind of scared she’s going to start macrame-ing seat covers with her in a minute.<\/p>\n
She’s lol-ing and just changed her Bitmoji to a mechanics outfit.<\/p>\n
She logged into my PayPal account again.<\/p>\n
She’s checking gauges and reporting the situation back to Gene who is funneling the questions back to some machinists forum.<\/p>\n
She’s scarily good at this.<\/p>\n
If she wasn’t a vegetarian, I could swear she just snapped into a Slim Jim.<\/p>\n
Her accent just got thicker. Even typing.<\/p>\n
She switched the radio to AM Auto Talk.<\/p>\n
It’s been 103 miles and apparently we are in no danger.<\/p>\n
She needs the PayPal password for the final solution, though.<\/p>\n
Tito says to invest in a good shag rug for her feet.<\/p>\n
Which I kind of think she wanted all along anyway.<\/p>\n
The road can change you.<\/p>\n
That’s what Lou now says, anyway.<\/p>\n
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