Life's Been Good

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lets recap my away messages throughout the day shall we?
- work
- following murphy's law
- cousin = awesome
- murphy's law enforced
- its been one of those days... only worse

explanation:

work - first one is self explanitory, i went to work as usual. it didnt seem like i would be that busy, but slowly the jobs came in. i was hit with a last minute request to go on a bank run. i go to my first bank: bank of petaluma, it closes first and its closest by. next is world savings since it closes next and it was close to closing, so i drove about a mile, at most, parked, did deposits. go outside, hop in the truck, turn key: nothing. NOTHING. not even an atempt at ignition. UGH. i call AAA.

following murphy's law - so my battery is completely dead. what great timing. i start to think of prospects for the evening: you know like my mom that i have to pick up, school i have to attend, perhaps my sisters soccer practice. i dunno. as it is the truck is the primary vehicle as my moms van is DOA AGAIN. so AAA calls up a local towing place to send someone over to jump the truck. 20 minutes later, captain asshole rides up in his bright yellow mazda pickup, parking literaly where a bush once was, as opposed to one of the dozen or so parking spaces around me. my hood already open, he applies some jumper cables and plugs the other end into some outlet on the fron of his truck. clever. i try to turn on mine. it tries, but dies. he says to let it charge a little, i do, i try again, it fires. but then dies. again, it fires, i give it gas and keep it revved to keep the truck from turning off. after a while i lay off the gas, the truck dies, captain asshole who packed up his jumpers already tells me to start it back up, nothing, "shit" he mutters as he unpacks them and we do it again. it fires, i keep it revved. he tells me to keep it revved, and drive straight home or to a service station as the battery is shot and i need a new one. gee ya think? what do i pay you for again? so i keep the engine revving, he packs up and speeds off... now the tricky part, getting going with the truck revved at about 2k rpm. i try and slid the gear selecter straight into reverse, but of course overshoot it and i go into drive, i jump into the parking thing in front of the wheel, hop back and the truck dies. SHIT. and captain asshole is already flying home. well that was an amazing waste of time.

cousin = awesome - my uncle's residence is contacted for assistance, and my newly licensed cousin chrisee is immediately dispatched. she calls to confirm my location, i have her meet me at a nearby Napa autoparts. during my walk i realize how much this situation sucks. i think to myself, all i need now is a ticket from a cop to cap off my wonderful day. i kid you not. by the time i get there, talk to a parts guy and he finds my battery and i buy it, she is driving by. notice i said DRIVING BY. in a moment of blondeness she drives right by the autoparts plavce and pulls over a block up the street. nice try hun. so she calls me since she couldnt find the autoparts place. i tell her she drove past it, but of course she has passed into an area which has becoe one way.. so she cant turn around, so i just tell her to stay put and that i would go to her. for those of you who dont know, car batteries are FUCING heavy. i eventually make it to her and we drive to my disabled dakota. i get the factory battery out eventually (it was like shackled into place) and it has no handle or anything its just a box... a 60 or so pound box. i put the new one in, lock it down, start up the truck and im off. thanks chrisee btw, you were the one thing that went right for me today. i owe ya.

murphy's law enforced - so with the delay i didnt get to finishbanking and an hour of my day went straight to hell. i had to rush through the rest of work and i got out at about 6. some of you may remember me putting off a hw assignement until between work and school (school starts at 7). it wasnt looking to promising for that assignment. now i had to pickup my mom from work. i call before i get there so she can be ready to go. which of course, she wasnt, i ended up waiting a good 15 minutes before she was finally in the truck. she promises me dinner. she said shed treat me to dinner. w/e. so i drop her off, she goes and gets a check she promised me and i grab my soc book and HW which i never got to and take off for school. its about 6:25 and i need to get to school at about 5:45 if i want parking. so i am in a rush.. i decide to overshoot the school and head for the grocery store next to it and grap a sandwich and soda or something, whatever is fast. speaking of fast, i am going about 60 mph in a 40 zone. i slow down once im done passing this ass and cruise at about 50 or so. and guess what? theres a cop waiting at a corner for me. as i aproach he blares his siren gest into traffic, i pull over in a busstop, he gets behind me. yay. now i get my ticket. i always wanted one of those. aperently i was doing 52. w/e. you know? i wasnt even pissed off or mad or anything. i knew i would get pulled over. it didnt surprise me in the least. so i went through the motions, got my pink thingy, and made a U-turn and went to class. no time for dinner anymore.

its been one of those days - only worse. this is my away message up through sociology. for obvious reasons. man, i couldnt believe my luck today, it was ridiculous. almost funny, til i realize its all true. so... i buy a battery, lose an hour of my day, walk a mile in 100 degree weather, change a battery (wearing white i might add) pickup my mom and have to wait as usual, didnt do my home work, got a speeding ticket and had Dr. Pepper for dinner. i got home, left two pink papers folded on the table. the recept for the battery and my ticket. i also left that check there. lifes been good.