Today I took the boys "down the mountain" to get my catalytic converter replaced. What is a catalytic converter you might ask (if you were Ethan, you would also want to know what it does and how it does it). I recently found out that a catalytic converter is part of the exhaust system and affects the emissions of your vehicle. I also recently learned a great deal more.
On the way to the dealer, Ethan began questioning: "What needs to be fixed?"
The Catalytic Converter.
"Why?"
It's broken.
"What does a catlic coverder do?"
It takes the smoke that the engine makes when it burns gas and makes it less dangerous to breath before it comes out the exhaust.
"How does it do that?"
I don't know.
"I know you know, so just tell me how!"
I really don't know. Mom doesn't know everything sweetheart, maybe we can stop by the library on the way home and get a book about it.
"Let's go to the library right now!"
We've passed it and we're late for our appointment, so we'll go after.
"TURN AROUND AND GO TO THE LIBRARY NOW!!!!"
Do you want a swat on your bottom?
I digress.
So, we left the car and attempted to walk the boys across the street to play at the playground. We didn't get 10 feet before they began fighting in the stroller. This resulted in time-outs in the parking lot, an embarrassing 45 minute melt-down amidst the new RAV4s and FJ Cruisers, and spankings. It was ugly ladies and gentlemen.
When we finally left with our new catalytic converter, we did indeed stop by the library.
I spent 30 minutes trying to find a book to explain how a catalytic converter works. To no avail.
"Mom please!! You have to find a book about calykit verters!"
So we settled for a book on how cars work that just didn't have enough detail, a manual for building your own car from the adult non-fiction section and a promise to search it out online. So, for anyone who is wondering, here are the basics of the
catalytic converter.
So now, if someone could just invent a "cataclysmic converter" that would take a toxic tantrum and reduce it's hazardous effects on the surroundings I'd be very grateful.
