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[QUOTE="cto, post: 1040617, member: 412"]
Otto..  Thanks for reminding me;  I actually have a true "noisy-muffler' story  (the only other time a muffler has ever figured in my life).

The day after I graduated from SU, I packed all my worldly possessions into my beat-up 13-year-old Dodge and headed towards Westchester County.  The problem was,,  I did not have $5.60, the then combined toll for the NYS Thruway and Tappan Zee Bridge... so I had to take back roads and the free bridge at Hudson.

As I approached Sharon Springs, the rotting muffler literally fell off my car ... causing me to me drive down Main Street very noisily.   I was pulled over by an officer who told me I had to replace the muffler before he would let me continue.   I told him that the only reason I was in Sharon Springs in the first place... was that i had exactly no money.    The Sharon Springs officer took pity on me and took me to a gas station where he convinced the owner to give me a new muffler -- based on my tearful gratitude and a promise  that my  father (who was also a police officer) would send him a check as soon as I got home.

When I got home,  my father thought it was a wonderful story.   After calling the upstate officer to thank him,  he immediately put a check in the mail.
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