My transmission took a dump today

Sometimes you gotta fight them a lil bit to get them into the right ger but if it's really really fighting you hard just to try to get it in and out then there may or may not be a linkage problem. Your lockdown shouldn't be locked down or it might not shift at all or shift too early and block your carb. If you check the fluid and don't know what it is then you might try again a few times just to be sure. So lets see you had trans fluid under your car but drove it witout checking the level and dont wanna buy a new trans if you don need it..