{"id":31068,"date":"2023-11-01T09:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=31068"},"modified":"2023-12-07T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:53:30","slug":"car-and-sax-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/car-and-sax-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR AND SAX TALK"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nMy 2019<\/strong> <\/span>Subaru Legacy is the safest car in the world. I know you don’t care, but bear with me. The car has many blinkers and warning signals, and that\u2019s why I bought it. Five years ago I fell asleep at the wheel of my Ford Fusion and drifted across a two-lane road into an oncoming car. I was tired. It was\u00a02:30. Two-thirty pm, not 2:30 am! I was going about 25 mph and hit a Greek immigrant\u2019s car head on. The accident happened on Larchmere Boulevard, right on the Cleveland-Shaker Heights line. Efficient Shaker cops showed up. Nobody got hurt! The accident was in front of Shaker Auto Body. I just wheeled my wrecked car right into the shop. Beautiful.<\/p>\n

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My red Ford Fusion and a Greek man on his phone<\/p><\/div>\n

I bought the 2019 Subaru with all the bells and whistles shortly after the accident. The car is good, but the battery not so good. The battery recently went dead for the second time in four months. There\u2019s a class-action suit against Subaru for bad batteries. I\u2019m taking the car to the dealer, or maybe I\u2019ll pay my son Ted to take it. I can\u2019t stand going to car dealerships.<\/p>\n

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More car <\/span><\/strong>talk (and some sax talk)<\/span> . . .\u00a0 Last month I was at a family wedding in a town halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles. (The wedding was at a winery. Nobody gets married at synagogue anymore, have you noticed? It\u2019s always at a winery or a barn.) Uber — which my son Jack\u00a0reserved ahead of time — didn’t show up at the hotel the morning after the wedding to take Alice and me to the airport. Instead, Uber sent us a message at 6 am: \u201cSorry.\u201d Uber couldn\u2019t find a driver. I should have hired a car service but I didn\u2019t think of that. My daughter, Lucy, did, but too late, I guess. My son Ted booked Alice and me a flight out of Palm Springs because we couldn’t get to LAX on time. Ted drove us to Palm Springs and got a flat tire.\u00a0 Can you believe we got a flat on the way to the airport? I lent Ted my AAA card; he hung around the\u00a0 car; and Alice and I got an Uber.<\/p>\n

Our flight<\/span><\/strong> out of Palm Springs was delayed, so I baggage-checked my saxophones. (My band had played the wedding. Terrific celebration, by the way.) The airlines could mangle my axes, but I didn’t care; I didn’t want to lug the heavy instruments around Palm Springs airport all afternoon.<\/p>\n

My alto sax is student-level, so no big loss if it got destroyed. My tenor, however, is a classic, The Martin Tenor. I bought it around 1964 from a music teacher. When I first got that axe, it reeked of ciggy smoke, and its pads were brown from phlegm. That’s why I never took up smoking. At the Palm Springs airport, I plastered the tenor case with \u201cFragile\u201d stickers. My clarinet, I kept in my backpack. It\u2019s not heavy.<\/p>\n

The saxes arrived in Cleveland about 11 hours later in fine shape. Better shape than me, actually. I’ve kept a couple \u201cFragile\u201d stickers on the tenor case to remind me of my adventure.<\/p>\n

By the way, the Subaru guys didn’t fix the “parasitic drainage” on my car battery. I might get a trickle charger. whatever that is.<\/p>\n

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