My car is not on fire. Right now, anyway.

[stormdog]

lisagems will be here tonight! *bounces*

Also, I had an experience in my car yesterday that reminds me of movie scenes wherein some disaster is immanent and the protagonist is frantically attempting preventative measures.

I was cleaning out my car prior to picking up S at the airport. I finished, then decided to mess with antenna connections. While moving wires, I noticed that one of them was much hotter than it ought to be. I looked around to see if something was turned on or a wire was shorted. Then I saw smoke coming out of one of the radios.

I whisked the cover off of the fuse panel on the dashboard and rifled the glove box for the fuse puller. As smoke continued to wisp out from the area of the CBs, I scanned quickly through the fuse labels. Radio; there it is! I yanked the fuse just before realizing it was the fuse for the car radio, not the cigarette lighter circuit that I'd spliced my radios into. Imagining the driveway as the scene of a raging car fire, I slowed my eyes down and methodically searched the columns of labels for the lighter fuse. Finally I found it and yanked it. Looks like I won't be charging my phone in the car until I get that figured out.

On the plus side, neither radio mounted in my car was working anyway. The multi-band one wouldn't power up, and the CB could not achieve an SWR better than 5-to-1 even with a different antenna and feed line. So they're both going to get scrapped and I'll put in the other old CB I have sitting around, once I get to it.