Away Team DELTA

Turns out I have two of the three brake lights on my car out. Couldn't do anything about it Sunday nite, so Monday after work (in a snowstorm!) I hit the auto parts store and buy the needed bulbs. Now the fun begins! Naturally they are almost impossible to get to within the tail-light fixture. After much grumbling I get them replaced and move on to the "spoiler" light. You need a screwdriver at some crazy angle to get to the screws, but eventually I get them off. Slip out the fixture, unscrew the bulb-holder and it won't come out because the bulb is somehow too big for the hole! I had to actually break the bulb into pieces to get it out, then I had the wrong bulb to replace it. (I checked the book when I purchased the bulbs to make sure I had the right ones for my make, model and year.) Fortuantely a friend of mine runs the gas station around the corner and he had a couple of bulbs on hand. So three bucks later and at least a half hour of screwing around with the fixture to get it back in and I now have brake lights! [This is the point where I rant about those idiot designers who thought up the configuration for the fixtures that are so difficult to get to for something as trivial as changing a bulb.]