i was editing the new video webisode of T&C Grom contest all night on Monday. (if you haven't check it out, click here for the video.) when i finished uploading the video, it was Tuesday morning already.
i was just about to go to sleep, Geoff Wong texted me asking when i'm leaving to Sunset Elementary for Mahina, Dax, Kylie, and other surfer kids' graduation. WHAT?? i thought it was in the night time!
so no sleep, drove to north shore. i'll post some photos from their graduation later!
after graduation, went to lunch with Mahina and her family and i left to head back to town. it was raining and saw a huge puddle so i tried to slow down...
i press my brake, NOTHING! i push on the brake harder... NOTHING! oh no, i had no brake!!
good thing i love cheap cars and dealt with all these things before. ha ha. i didn't even panic or anything. it was more like "oh great, better down shift, slow down and use the parking brake." so i go in the Ehukai beach park and check what's going on.
my passenger side front brake hose was busted and the brake fluid was gushing out. didn't want to deal with it in the rain so i drove back to Mahina's house with no brake. ha ha.
Mahina's mom took me to an auto parts store in Mililani and started fixing the brake.
good thing Mahina's dad had all the tools i needed.
i thought i was done, but when i checked closer i found out the threads on the connection from the old metal tubing was all messed up!
borrowed a car and back to Mililani. got the metal tubing and had not so fun time bending it to fit.
finally finished around 10pm! and that's 10pm with no sleep from the day before. thanks Mahina's dad for helping me. i wasn't about to drive home cuz i knew i'd fell sleep driving home. Spent the night at Mahina's guest house and drove back today.
thank you Maeda family for driving/lending their car to get parts, feeding me dinner, giving me place to fix the van and letting me pass out at their house. if i had to get the van towed, that would've costed me a fortune!!
now she's all better and happy! good thing i know how to fix cars cuz i bet if i took it in, it would've costed me like $300. instead, the whole fix costed me just little over $50.
i'm just glad i didn't have any kids with me when it all happened, i bet the kids would've been screaming and panicking going nuts when they find out there's no brake. ha ha.
what a crazy day i had.
kaz
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