or maybe the one that crazy shit always happens in threes (or is just bad things?)
i don't know... but today was a crappy day all around for my family and cars...
first of all, my older sister locks her keys in her car. while it is an airheaded thing to do, it is completey forgivable b/c i've done it a number of times and at least her car wasn't running (*cough, cough* huey *cough*). what did suck was that it was all the way up on wade green rd where she chose to do this, and her spare key resides out in powder springs... if you are familiar with these areas, you know they aren't exactly close to one another. after about a 50 mile round trip i dropped her off and promptly got back on the highway... unfortunately i headed north instead of south and was practically half way to chattanooga before i realized it. not a good start to my day...
so i'm about 5 minutes from my mom's house (headed back to work after my 2 hour long fiasco) when she called me again and redirected me to my brother who had just blown out his tire on the way to work. sucks for him. so i went there and picked him up and we went on a "cheapest tire in the world" hunt around marietta because his car is on it's last leg and there is no sense in spending a bunch of money on a tire that will outlast the rest of the crap car. another hindrance was that he literally only had $40 to his name so we were kind of on a budget... after a lot of hunting, calling and driving around we found a deal for $49 and some change... i loaned him the difference and we were off...
unfortunately, while we were in the process of all this driving around i decided to stop off at georgia backyard who is having a big tent sale on patio furniture (who can pass up a tent sale??). well, when i was turning back onto the main road, i was behind an old buick and we had a green arrow, but when we got about halfway through the intersection an ambulance suddenly turned on it's siren and pulled out in front of us... lady slams on brakes... i slam on brakes... we have a minor fender bender... shit shit shit.
of course the ambulance drives through the intersection and off they go... the woman just gets out of her car and stares stupidly at me while we are still in the middle of the intersection and i finally have to roll down my window and tell her to pull into the painted median before she gets us both killed. we got out and looked at the cars... no damage, no dents, but we decide to exchange information... then the damn moto cops that troll the area decide to stop on their way by and ask if we want to file a report... the lady waffles back and forth, gets on her cell phone (damn cell phones) and apparently her husband tells her to file one... so i walk away with a damn ticket for following too closely... argh...
i've never hit someone in my life but today that was just the icing on my cake... if i could manage it, i wouldn't drive the rest of the day... but alas, i have class tonite from 8-11, so i can't really it. i've got another 40 miles to drive before i can go to bed...
