I asked to borrow my dad's truck, but my family was away skiing. My mom told me where the keys were and that all I had to do was put new tags on the car, because it had been sitting there, not moving for a long time.
So after work I took one of my coworkers to my parents house, to help me move things and to smoke a bowl. We played pool for a bit and eventually got around to the heavy lifting. Once we had everything loaded and in the bed of the truck, I tried to start the thing but the battery was completely dead.
And it just so happens that when I figured that out my dad comes flying up the driveway. Now before I let you know about what my dad did next, I think I should let you know a few things about my father, just so you can get an idea of what kind of a man he is. He is a commercial fisherman, who owns his own boat. That is only to bring in the bread an butter, but what my father REALLY wants to do is be a professional karaoke singer.
Yep, that's right. Most peoples fathers pick up golf, or collect stamps, or buy a really cool and expensive new car for a mid life crisis and that is the end of it. Nope. Not my dad. He seriously thinks he is bound to be the nest Tom Jones and that he was blessed with this god given talent. He was even on America's Got Talent (keep in mind that he never made it past the tryouts). It is very hard to live with him, and causes my mother a great deal of stress. Aside from head splitting singing at 2 a.m. all the man ever wants to talk about is singing or God. So i am sure you can see that we do not have much in common.
So he was instantly rude to me, like always, (because he thinks he is better than me, and judges me constantly). I told him what is up, and asked him if he could jump it. He said that I needed to get some jumper cables. So I went and dropped of my friend and went to 5 different stores looking for these cables. It just so happened that it was Sunday, so every place was closed early, except for a 24hr. Walmart three cities over.
After getting lost, discouraged and angry i finally got the cables that I needed and by the time i got back to my parents house it was already midnight. I decided to call it a night and crash out there and deal with the rest of it later.
As it turns out that 5 year old truck is a power sucking piece of shit, and wouldn't take a jump worth shit. In the end I just loaded everything into my hatchback and too two trip.
