Entry 45--AKA: "Today sucked!"

I'll keep this short. Today the readers for two of my classes were ready at the Davis Copy Shop. I called my mom to ask her if she would want to go with me: just a quick trip to Davis, pick up the readers and maybe lunch afterward. I picked her up around 12:30.

First, (and this should have been a sign from the beginning) my mom forgets to grab her house keys and doesn't realize this until she has locked the front door of the house. She tells me and I assure her that I have a key at my house and we'll just stop by there on the way back and get it. (My dad is out of town with Jason and we don't know when to expect them back.)

We get on the road and I miss the turn on to I-80 to Davis. I curse and my mom tells me to just take Longview Drive, which crosses 80 after about a mile. Sounds good to me. We are on Longview for all of maybe 3 minutes when all of a sudden I see a huge chunk of road asphalt in the middle of the road right in front of my bumper. I swerve to avoid hitting it with my tire, knowing that if I hit it I will DESTROY my tire(s) along with my rim(s) if I do, and the asphalt SCRAPES down the entire center of my car. We immediately pull over and my mom hops out and looks under the car: there's no leaking and my car is still running and the gauges are all reading normal, so we turn around to get the HUGE chunk of asphalt out of the road.

NOTE: the asphalt came out from the side of a manhole on Longview. I picked it up and threw it on the side of the road and now there is a huge pothole there. Good luck if you have to drive through there.

We get back into the car and go all of maybe on mile when my car will no longer accelerate. My foot is pressing on the gas and there is not even a revving of the engine. We pull over, and since my mom has AAA road service, she calls for a tow. We wait 40 minutes on Roseville road...*sigh*

My mom has the tow truck driver take us to the Honda dealer at the Roseville Auto Mall since Jason and I know a service technician there and we trust him with our car. By this time we have contacted my dad and Jason who are near Auburn and are going to pick us up from the Honda dealer. They arrive soon after the technician give me a rough estimate and fills out the paperwork and by this time I'm ready to go home: we've not eaten and have been sitting on the side of the road or at the Honda dealer for almost two hours.

My dad goes out to start the car that he and Jason drove to pick us up in: LOW AND BEHOLD the car WON'T start. Out of gas.

I kid you not.

So we have to call AAA...again...to have them deliver gas for the car. The guy comes out, puts a few gallons in the car: STILL will not start. Apparently something is broken and decided to break WHILE ON ROUTE TO PICK US UP FROM BROKEN CAR.

So, yeah, today sucked.

Basically, I left my house today at noon and did not get back until 6:30 tonight. What sort of productive things did I do? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I sat on the side of the road or at the Honda dealership for nearly 5 hours doing nothing waiting for tow trucks and broken cars.

I'm exhausted. I didn't eat until 6 pm today. AND, to top it all off, I didn't even pick up my class readers.

Needless to say, I'm not going anywhere else tonight and maybe tomorrow. If another car breaks on me I'm going to lose it.

There you have it. Now I'm going to go drink until I'm not pissed off anymore. Thanks for reading.