fallbythewayside

Ugh. What a week for cars. As I mentioned in my last entry, I got two flat tires on my driver's side at once, took 'em to Town Fair Tire, and had 'em fixed for free. Thursday I woke up to find that my tire was flat again. Back to Town Fair. They couldn't figure it out, so they just remounted it and used bead sealer. Friday morning, woke up to yet another flat tire. By now I was fucking livid, and I kinda' sorta' violently kicked in the front quarter panel on my driver's side while I was taking a tire off my car for the fifth time in three days in the -20 degree weather. I put the tire in my dad's car, and headed off to Town Fair yet again. This time a buddy of mine I used to work with (who was the only person in the whole building who felt bad for me and/or apologized) personally inspected it, and found a THIRD HOLE in the tire. I'm not completely sure how I put three holes in the front tire and one hole in the back, but whatever. They fixed it, and I bitched to the manager. He tried saying, "I don't know what you want me to do...it's a free service." I responded, "Yeah, but it's a free service you didn't do right like half a dozen times. Are you saying that just because it's free it means you don't have to be held accountable for the work you do?" At this point my buddy stepped in and explained how I was late to work two days in a row, had to borrow my dad's car two days in a row, had to miss HOURS of work, and had to change my tire 864 times in the freezing cold. The manager kinda' stepped out of it, so my buddy wrote me a little coupon thingie good for wholesale pricing on any one tire purchase, free balancing, and a $20 factory alignment. The tire still isn't flat, so I guess everything finally worked out. But good Christ, do I want to get rid of that p.o.s.!

It's snowing. A lot. I was gonna' go car shopping yesterday, but got waylayed by the blizzard of doom. And today I'm supposed to go over my friend's place around 5 to hang out and watch the Pats / Steelers AFC Championship game. But if it's still anything like this out, I guess I'm spending the night in.

Last night I was supposed to go out to the bars w/ my friends, but the snow put a stop to that. So I got really fuckin' high, turned the lights off, sat on my bed, and listened to my mp3 collection on random instead. Man, that was kinda' weird. I ended up passing out in unfortunately short order, as I had a slew of things I wanted to do. Smoke a butt, get a drink, get something to eat, play video games...instead, I just fell asleep and woke up around 5:30 this morning. Strange.