9/13/06 06:02 pm
So the plan for today: Ted's mom picks he and I up, we drop her off, and then go to Jamie's.
So after school to get help in math class and afterwards, I call Ted and ask where he is. He says he's walking home. I ask why and he says because his mom's visiting his grandma so he doesn't have a car.
So I call Jamie and ask if I can just walk to her house now. She says yeah, and I begin my journey. A little while after passing the ambulance picking up the boy hit by a car on his bike, she calls me back and says I can't go over because her mom's not home.
So I call Delisle. He doesn't pick up.
So I call Galka. He doesn't pick up.
So I call Lavens. He says I can come over for an hour, until he has to go to work. So I start on my way to his house, and it starts to rain. Then it starts to pour. Then it starts to pour really, really hard. Then I'm completely soaked.
So I start towards Galka's, which is a lot closer, to take cover on his porch until he gets home. Right as I'm turning onto his street, he calls me and I try to get some cover from a tree and answer my phone. I ask him if I can come over, but I can't, because his parents aren't home. He does, however, offer to give me a ride to Lavens' house. But he doesn't have the Focus and he can't use his sister's SUV, so he uses his brother's car. Now, the thing about his brother's car is that he can go a maximum of four miles before it overheats and stalls and dies. And its gas tank is on Empty. And the driver's side door doesn't lock. And the passenger window doesn't roll up straight. And the passenger side mirror is just barely hanging on. And it's a peice of crap.
So we get to Lavens' house and park in the street and stand with him on the porch for a bit, until he has to get ready for work. So I call Brian and ask him if he can give me a ride home, and the good soul says yes. So he comes to Lavens', and Galka and I get into Galka's brother's car to drive it back with Brian and then have him take us back to my house. But when Galka starts it, it dies. And he can't get it started again. Except for once. But then it dies again. And Galka guesses that the gas tank is empty and the battery is dead.
So we push the car to Matt's house. In the pouring rain. All three of us, as wet as we've ever been, we push it for maybe a quarter mile, while people driving by stop and make ass-hole comments like "It's a little wet today, huh?" or "Bad time for your car to break down, eh?" Then when we get there, Galka decides to change and says he'll meet up with us back at Brian's car, which is still at Lavens' house.
So Brian and I start back towards his car... but we get lost. And we keep walking down a street until we get to Country Club, where we decide to stop by Jamie's house to ask directions to get back to Lavens'. She tells us how to get there and gives us an umbrella out of the goodness of her heart, which, while we do appreciate it, does not really serve a purpose because we're already completely soaked, so we start walking to follow her directions when we see MSG running down the street in his change of clothes, soaked again. He had run to Brian's car and then ran around the neighborhood looking for us. So we get to Brian's car and drive back to Galka's so he can change again, then we drive back to my house and dry off and play some guitar hero.
What an eventful day.