The Backstory: In 2010, I have set a goal for myself to experience one new thing per week, every week of the year. Each week, I try something I’ve never done before, and then I document my experience here, regardless of whether I succeed or fail. Read more here.
Week: 28
The Challenge/New Experience: Help my friend Kelly install her new car stereo.
This week’s New Thing came to me by way of an e-mail from my good buddy Kelly (with a Y) last Friday — a win-win situation for both of us. She had a new car stereo that needed installing; I had a weekend coming up and no idea what my New Thing of the week would be. Those thieves at Best Buy wanted $50 for installation — highway robbery! Let’s do it! Sisters workin’ it out for themselves!
How hard could it be?
To be fair to both of us, neither Kelly nor I went into this blindly. We did our due diligence, or our due Googling at least. I found some GREAT step-by-step instructions that turned out to be for a different car entirely (but I swear it’s got her make and model number on there!), which recommended that we essentially take the entire car apart.
My point, though, is that we knew this wasn’t going to be a walk in the park, and we both went into it with a feeling that this was going to be a difficult task, but we were going to emerge from it triumphantly, as better people, with a great feeling of accomplishment.
Did we succeed? Hit the jump to find out! Continue reading 2010 Challenge, Week #28 – Installing a car stereo