MSROCAI

An important tip: do not drive with your emergency brake on. I'm smart, so I've tried to go in reverse with it applied several times (recently, making this all the worse), but the mechanicalisms of the system prevent that. So, I presumed I wouldn't be able to move forward if it was applied. I rarely apply it, so I am not proficient in emergency brake knowledge skills. On my way home from a gathering this afternoon, I noticed that the front end of my car was vibrating a tad too much for comfort. Thus, I took the long way home in an effort to diagnose the cause. I completely forgot I had applied the brake. So, I'm crusing along and notice that, in addition to the shaking, my car is having trouble maintaining the speed limit of 35--I was barely doing 25. I failed to correlate the two troublings and decided that I just didn't have the accelerator pressed down far enough. Yes, I know it is a holiday weekend and the cops are thick, but fear not, for I didn't speed. Continuing along, a number of cars were whizzing by me at a speed comfortably illegal; however, I needed to change lanes before the one I was in ended. Solution: faster, doing about 60 in a 55 (but, once more, fear not, for I was going fairly slow by comparison to my road companions and it was a clear shot, wide road, good conditions, no traffic but the people I needed to pass). Sixty miles per hour. I then bumped the emergency brake pedal with my left foot and realized my error. "Well, that's the problem! (Sniff.) I think I now know what molten brakes smell like."