The Gig
“You are all a lost generation.” [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Shit,” lying upside down on the driver’s bucket seat for Janet’s 1979 AMC Spirit. I’m straining to thread on the retaining nut for the transmission’s master cylinder. I can’t find the bolt’s starting thread, and I’m having problems hanging on to the nut with the temperatures below freezing.