Fabulous!!
Jul. 21st, 2005 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI just had the most super fun night ever!
I was driving home from dance class and my car? Instead of driving? Decided to heck with that! YAY!!
So there I am far enough away from dance class that I can't get any help from them (and the building's now empty anyway so moot point) plus I'm in the middle of nowhere where I don't know what the address is because I don't have all the street names memorized because my brain works via landmarks plus my car has totally frozen plus I'm in the middle of really fast traffic because I'm on a two way street that's next to a highway PLUS I'm on a hill!! YAY!
So you get these morons who are honking their horns at me as though car stuck at odd angle into traffic with hazard lights on does not somehow equal that yes, the driver would get the car off the road if the laws of physics weren't totally working against that. But then this woman, this fabulous woman driving a station wagon, stopped to help. So with my car in neutral and hers behind me we were able to wrestle my baby into the entrance for a parking lot that I was aiming for as soon as the engine died and I still had some momentum to help me.
Then she called a cop who got there pretty quick and then she ran off and I don't know her name or anything! But she was wonderful. And the cop was nice too and helped as I made the call to AAA since, again, I didn't know where in the Hell I was in any terms that I could give to a tow-truck driver.
Dumbest comment of the evening? The girl on the other end of the AAA line who signed off with "Enjoy the rest of your night!" Yeah, that's gonna be happening.
So the cop hung out with me while I dealt with AAA and helped me know if they were giving me useful information in terms of what to do with the tow truck company. Plus he extremely helpfully did NOT check my ID which I say not because I didn't have it on me but because I did and I got a speeding ticket in New York a few months back that, in spite of me repeatedly writing to address they said to write to and going "I'm guilty as sin, please let me know what I owe you so we can make this go away" they have not charged me for so of course now I'm convinced that I not only owe millions of dollars but jail time to boot so what I did not need on top of my broken car was to find out that the cop ran my name through a database and now I'm now being hauled into the clink where my ability to write porn will only go so far to keep me from being traded for cigarettes.
Then he had to leave me alone like WAH! But apparently there's actual, you know, crimes or whatever that needed his attention. But he promised to check back in an hour or so if the AAA tow truck didn't get there yet (!!!).
Luckily AAA called me back on my rapidly dying cell phone battery (I wasn't near a tower and that drains the battery lickity split, it was fully charged at the start of this adventure) and told me the tow truck would be there in fifteen minutes and at the exact same time the tow truck guy called to say he'd be there in fifteen minutes so I camped out in my car and waited and was real glad I hadn't drained my entire water bottle like I usually do after dance class since middle of nowhere? Not large with the bathrooms (though I suppose there's plenty of shrubbery).
So I get in this GINORMOUS tow truck that's exercise in and of itself and the guy looks at my car and says it's probably the alternator (my car engine just died with no warning, wouldn't start up again, battery and engine lights both went on. For those of you who'd like to diagnose a 2001 Ford Focus all on your own). Can't be fixed right then, has to go somewhere, I could pay to have it hauled the 30+ miles back to my hometown except that'll cost approximately as much as the repair job itself so, okay, free tow to the AAA garage.
Garage which has bugs in the bathroom! Which I thankfully do not discover until I'm done with the bathroom, most especially because a few minutes more and it would have been bugs in very non-bug welcoming places if you know what I mean and I think you do.
So guy calls cab company for me and lets me use his phone to call my folks who I have been calling multiple times throughout the whole ordeal because WAH I NEED MY MOMMY AND DADDY!!!!
So cab company sounds like they don't know how to get to the car place but the guy gives them directions and then he's all okay, gotta go to my next assignment and I'm all wah! By myself! Strange town! Cab company of dubious ability to find me! Cell phone rapidly dying of battery! But there's an open Domino's across the street and it's a fairly well-lit area so I hang out front and obsessively copy all the information from the garage's business card into my Palm pilot just in case I lose the card.
The Looooooooooooooooooongest fifteen minutes later (even longer than the ones to wait for the tow truck) the cab guy arrives and fortunately he's very nice and knows the way to my home town and it's a flat rate for the ride which is not unreasonable plus now he gets to tell people about meeting a tribal belly dancer which, hey, not everyone can do.
So I have him take me to my folks' place as my parents are kindly waiting up for me and even more kindly loaning me the use of Mom's car while all this is going on and I tell my tale of woe and then I drive back home and shove food into the microwave because it is four hours after when I should have been eating dinner and I'm starving and I'm tired and I'm in need of a shower because, Hello, DANCE CLASS! and I'm freaked because OMG car died in the middle of traffic on a hill and I couldn't save myself on my own and if not for that woman I could have been in a horrible crash and died and - and - and-
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[pant pant pant pant]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need a hug.
ETA: Oh and the guy with the two truck called my cell about 20 min after the cab was supposed to pick me up just to check that the cab did pick me up and to make sure I was okay. He asked me to call him back one way or another and I didn't see the message until I was home so I did call and said thanks for caring and what have you. And it's really sweet though I have no idea if he was flirting or just being sweet or whatever but either way it was a nice thing to have happen in spite of everything else.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
I was driving home from dance class and my car? Instead of driving? Decided to heck with that! YAY!!
So there I am far enough away from dance class that I can't get any help from them (and the building's now empty anyway so moot point) plus I'm in the middle of nowhere where I don't know what the address is because I don't have all the street names memorized because my brain works via landmarks plus my car has totally frozen plus I'm in the middle of really fast traffic because I'm on a two way street that's next to a highway PLUS I'm on a hill!! YAY!
So you get these morons who are honking their horns at me as though car stuck at odd angle into traffic with hazard lights on does not somehow equal that yes, the driver would get the car off the road if the laws of physics weren't totally working against that. But then this woman, this fabulous woman driving a station wagon, stopped to help. So with my car in neutral and hers behind me we were able to wrestle my baby into the entrance for a parking lot that I was aiming for as soon as the engine died and I still had some momentum to help me.
Then she called a cop who got there pretty quick and then she ran off and I don't know her name or anything! But she was wonderful. And the cop was nice too and helped as I made the call to AAA since, again, I didn't know where in the Hell I was in any terms that I could give to a tow-truck driver.
Dumbest comment of the evening? The girl on the other end of the AAA line who signed off with "Enjoy the rest of your night!" Yeah, that's gonna be happening.
So the cop hung out with me while I dealt with AAA and helped me know if they were giving me useful information in terms of what to do with the tow truck company. Plus he extremely helpfully did NOT check my ID which I say not because I didn't have it on me but because I did and I got a speeding ticket in New York a few months back that, in spite of me repeatedly writing to address they said to write to and going "I'm guilty as sin, please let me know what I owe you so we can make this go away" they have not charged me for so of course now I'm convinced that I not only owe millions of dollars but jail time to boot so what I did not need on top of my broken car was to find out that the cop ran my name through a database and now I'm now being hauled into the clink where my ability to write porn will only go so far to keep me from being traded for cigarettes.
Then he had to leave me alone like WAH! But apparently there's actual, you know, crimes or whatever that needed his attention. But he promised to check back in an hour or so if the AAA tow truck didn't get there yet (!!!).
Luckily AAA called me back on my rapidly dying cell phone battery (I wasn't near a tower and that drains the battery lickity split, it was fully charged at the start of this adventure) and told me the tow truck would be there in fifteen minutes and at the exact same time the tow truck guy called to say he'd be there in fifteen minutes so I camped out in my car and waited and was real glad I hadn't drained my entire water bottle like I usually do after dance class since middle of nowhere? Not large with the bathrooms (though I suppose there's plenty of shrubbery).
So I get in this GINORMOUS tow truck that's exercise in and of itself and the guy looks at my car and says it's probably the alternator (my car engine just died with no warning, wouldn't start up again, battery and engine lights both went on. For those of you who'd like to diagnose a 2001 Ford Focus all on your own). Can't be fixed right then, has to go somewhere, I could pay to have it hauled the 30+ miles back to my hometown except that'll cost approximately as much as the repair job itself so, okay, free tow to the AAA garage.
Garage which has bugs in the bathroom! Which I thankfully do not discover until I'm done with the bathroom, most especially because a few minutes more and it would have been bugs in very non-bug welcoming places if you know what I mean and I think you do.
So guy calls cab company for me and lets me use his phone to call my folks who I have been calling multiple times throughout the whole ordeal because WAH I NEED MY MOMMY AND DADDY!!!!
So cab company sounds like they don't know how to get to the car place but the guy gives them directions and then he's all okay, gotta go to my next assignment and I'm all wah! By myself! Strange town! Cab company of dubious ability to find me! Cell phone rapidly dying of battery! But there's an open Domino's across the street and it's a fairly well-lit area so I hang out front and obsessively copy all the information from the garage's business card into my Palm pilot just in case I lose the card.
The Looooooooooooooooooongest fifteen minutes later (even longer than the ones to wait for the tow truck) the cab guy arrives and fortunately he's very nice and knows the way to my home town and it's a flat rate for the ride which is not unreasonable plus now he gets to tell people about meeting a tribal belly dancer which, hey, not everyone can do.
So I have him take me to my folks' place as my parents are kindly waiting up for me and even more kindly loaning me the use of Mom's car while all this is going on and I tell my tale of woe and then I drive back home and shove food into the microwave because it is four hours after when I should have been eating dinner and I'm starving and I'm tired and I'm in need of a shower because, Hello, DANCE CLASS! and I'm freaked because OMG car died in the middle of traffic on a hill and I couldn't save myself on my own and if not for that woman I could have been in a horrible crash and died and - and - and-
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[pant pant pant pant]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need a hug.
ETA: Oh and the guy with the two truck called my cell about 20 min after the cab was supposed to pick me up just to check that the cab did pick me up and to make sure I was okay. He asked me to call him back one way or another and I didn't see the message until I was home so I did call and said thanks for caring and what have you. And it's really sweet though I have no idea if he was flirting or just being sweet or whatever but either way it was a nice thing to have happen in spite of everything else.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
