Ginger, it probably depends on the model. We had an old Ford Escort where the gas gauge stopped working, and replacing it would have meant ripping out the entire dashboard. But it was an early 90s economy car, so.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jul 13, 2009 3:21:45 pm PDT #28947 of 30000
Because books.
Juliebird - Jul 13, 2009 3:23:45 pm PDT #28948 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Mum's station wagons speedometer stops working every now and then and same as Amy, the work involved caused Mum to live with it.
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 3:24:37 pm PDT #28949 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I had the speedometer fail on my first Accord, I think. I don't remember how much it cost, though I'm fairly sure it wasn't a fortune. But it's probably also not real cheap.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2009 3:24:53 pm PDT #28950 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
my mother (Harvard degree) cut in with, "there are no schools 'like' Harvard!"
That reminds me of the T-shirts for sale at McGill with the Harvard logos and the slogan "McGill of the south."
Jesse - Jul 13, 2009 3:36:57 pm PDT #28951 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My mother went to Harvard for grad school, and half the reason she went there was because it's local, so she definitely doesn't have the reverence that some do....
brenda m - Jul 13, 2009 3:42:44 pm PDT #28952 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I pled to having a non-working speedometer once, but that was just to avoid the moving violation ding on a speedibng ticket. Never known it to actually happen though.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 3:46:06 pm PDT #28953 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
One of my college roommates had a Volvo with a non-working speedometer, but he never fixed it.
That was a car you could start with a screwdriver, though. Not, possibly, the best reference.
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 3:48:36 pm PDT #28954 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My non-working speedometer actually got me out of a ticket, because I got pulled over after it was fixed and still had the receipt in my car. I said "Officer, it must be broken again."
Laura - Jul 13, 2009 3:51:24 pm PDT #28955 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My Volvo's speedometer broke but we didn't fix it because it also caused the mileage to stop and that helped resale value.
Calli - Jul 13, 2009 3:58:06 pm PDT #28956 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
If I wanted to find a list of Caribbean HIV-related NGOs, is there some sort of directory/resource I could use?
Sorry--I was too swamped at work today to come to b.org.
Anyway, I don't know of a directory for Caribbean HIV-related NGOs, but there's The AIDS Alliance. (My NGO has a very small subcontract with them.) Their focus is mostly in the Eastern Caribbean.
There's a WHO-related organization called CAREC, or the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. It's for all communicable diseases, but it has an HIV/AIDS section.
Over at idealist.org they have a search by location area, but it lumps Latin America and Caribbean together, so you have to separate jobs in Panama from those in Trinidad.