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It just hasn’t been my week. Like not even in the slightest. Check it: I was driving home from work Monday and BAM! Followed by a flop flop flop flop flop flop flop. Crapola. So I pull off the road and my back left tire is completely flat. It is also dawns on me at this time that I’ve never changed a tire before. Sure I’ve seen it done a few times, but nothing hands on. I’m sure that you are expecting me to say that bumbled that up…but HA! I tackled that beast. But as for the rest of the story…I blew the tire just out side of Attapulgus and all I have is a donut of a tire. The suggested traveling speed for a donut tire is no more that 50 mph. Let me just say that was the longest 30 miles of my life.

But wait, there’s more!! Due to the fact that I had a humongous hole in my tire, I decided that it was time to get some new tires. After all, I’m almost to 40K miles with the factory tires. All I’m going to say is hope and pray you never have to buy 245/45ZR17 size tires. And its not so much the size but that little Z in there. Curse you Z curse you!!!! Anyways, so I had to miss half a day of work to get these tires. [insert grumbling here]. Luckily when I got home Monday night I shopped around and got a really good deal.

Sadly, this is as good as it gets. I just got my tires put on and I was driving back home. I turned off Apalachee Parkway onto a side road. This woman (yes that explains it) who was parked beside the road decided to perform a U-turn. Needless to say she didn’t see me coming. One second I had open road, the next, airbags. And just for the record, those things stink. So here I am in downtown, state capital Tallahassee, during lunch hour traffic, with an Isuzu Rodeo for a new hood orniment. We pull off to the side of the road and get out. Thankfully neither one of us are hurt and she’s a really nice lady. Eventually TPD comes to write up the accident. The icing on the cake: I shut my door after I get my insurance and registration info and my horn goes off. Then I had to wait for the fire department to show up to disconnect my battery because they wouldn’t let me do it.

End of story: Its her fault and both our cars are towed away. As for my baby, everything on the right side of the car from the front of the wheel to the headlight is crushed. As for her monster, her left fender is crushed and front axel is broke. So for now I’ve got a rental, a macking Chevy Silverado, until I get my baby back. And who knows when that’ll be. The moral of this story boys and girls is to have good car insurance and watch out for woman drivers.

Finally, a huge shoutout goes out to Rachel. You made my day yesterday.

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  1. Hg-RT — November 17, 2004 #

    FYI:

    Symptoms of Mercury Poisoning:
    · Impairment of the peripheral vision
    · Disturbances in sensations (“pins and needles” feelings, numbness) usually in the hands feet and sometimes around the mouth
    · Lack of coordination of movements, such as writing
    · Impairment of speech, hearing, walking;
    · Muscle weakness
    · Skin rashes
    · Mood swing
    · Memory loss
    · Mental disturbance

  2. bigdaddy c-14 — November 17, 2004 #

    oh, how much fun i could have had with this incident. personally, i would have pressed charges upon the company. then i would have turned them over to the EPA. it’s not everyday that i get to wield my power as a haz-mat official so i would’ve had a field day with this one. so far, only one person has got to feel the wrath of big daddy c-14. (and that’s because i spent three hours in a trench wearing an SCBA and scooping 18 gallons of diesel putty into a barrel. too bad we could only give him a a $500 littering fine. i wanted to stick it to him, mainly because he got me out of bed at 2:00 in the morning but also because i was in that little hole for three hours…and my clothes smelt like diesel for the rest of the night…and i had to sleep in those clothes. i guess thats why i’m supposed to take an extra set to work with me. but it was his fault for being an idiot.

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