The mud bog and my car don't mix

This is adapted from my previous post and part two of "Why Roger should never take his car off of the paved roadway system ever again for something stupid will happen to his car."

So I was driving around and went out to the mud bog to drive around in circles. I had no problems driving around the place. I thought it was fun spinning around and having an entertaining time. What happened was tragic.

I was driving out of the area and up the hill to get on the dirt road to get back to the main campus. I thought I was going to clear the rock that was just jutting out of the dirt. I judge it being low enough that I would not have a problem. That didn't happen. I heard a fine crunch sound and thought nothing of it until I got back to campus.

When I got back to campus, I parked it and looked under my car. Oil was pouring out from somewhere in the engine. Oh crap. Well, at least I got it back instead of getting stuck out there. Smart one. Well, I told my parents of the bad news. So much for bad news. When I was thinking it was the oil, it was actually the transmission fluid reservoir that I punched a hole in. That nasty little problem complicated things much more.

So I have been stranded in Socorro for about a week and I've been handling it fairly well for being so. It has been an interesting week depending on others to drive me places and learning how to drive standard in order to borrow a friend's car. I had to shell out over $200 to send my car to Albuquerque to get it fixed. Now it's fixed, thanks to my parents bailing me out.

Lesson learned? Probably not. I think I'll plan on getting a manual transmission truck sometime in the future so I can drive over rocks and not break anything that shouldn't be broken...