she acted flustered and apologized for the oldness and the shabbiness of her car , but that made an arrow of what i must seem like to her get through , and i told her to make nothing of it , that we are all just working to make our way , and i asked her to hold my jacket and i looked under the hood and found a wire that i reaffixed to distributor cap with some duct tape that resolved the immediate problem , and she thanked me but i told her the fix was temporary at best and that seeing it was so late at night it was best if i follow her home .