I got to work today and it was going to be a great day... I didn't wear my watch today and I wore it yesterday and yesterday was a great day. I thought to myself, stupidly, "Today's gonna suck cause I didn't wear my watch..."...
...I get a call from a co worker that just so happened to be later than usual this morning, the LAST person to get in the parking lot until people started lunch hours around 11am...
CW: Hey you probably know this already but your RR Tire is FLAT...
ME: What?!? What do you mean FLAT?!?!
CW: OH! Sorry, I mean, F-L-A-T... Hanging off the rim, no bueno flat. You might want to come down here.
ME: (looking at the piles and piles of work on my desk and NOW worrying about my car resting on the rim and the fact that I just bought new tires 6 months ago and the CFO is leaving and I'm doing checks today instead of tomorrow and he's leaving in 30 minutes...29 minutes...28 minutes and oh my god OH MY GOD!!) Uhm, yeah, I can't... I'll be down soon...
I powered through two days worth of work in 2 hours this morning so the CFO could leave early and be out tomorrow, which is generally the day I run the vendor checks. I got it DONE... BOOM!!!
I ask my co-worker if she could watch the phones for a sec while I mosey on down to my car...
It was totally fucked off, and I wanted to cry, and vomit, and hug my Purple People Eater all at once... I go into the warehouse, I have a friend out there. It's DEAD out there today (actually NOT a good thing but good for ME at the time)... Ask mi amigo if he can help me out a second... "Of course!" Take him to my car and show him the tire, we get the jack and the tire iron out of the car, I was initially going to take the tire off the car, leave it jacked, go with SOMEONE and get the tire fixed and bring the tire back to put on the car... I didn't have a donut on my car. My car didn't come with one...and My father in law got me one that was used and it went bad real fast and it never got replaced.
Mi Amigo finds a donut spare in my trunk...??????
...The last time something happened to my tires and I didn't handle it 100% myself, we were staying with my in-laws... I was working, Choni was working and there was only Thing 1... I took Choni's car, he took his dad's car, and Felipe kept MY car...he had Fridays off and wasn't working anyways... He put that there. He put that donut spare there for me, cause he knew I wouldn't do it and he knew his son wouldn't do it and he knew I would need it...he knew WE would need it... He put that there for me.. a present to be had a later date, lest we knew he wouldn't be able to linger and help with these little chores any longer...
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I couldn't even handle that. I completely broke down at work...
I got my shit together, I took and "early" lunch to get my car business handled cause Amigo checked my spare, it was low. He took it over to the RV place behind us and had it blown up some so I could go 2 miles to the tire chain in town where I got my tires... same chain, different store. A patch job later, and I'm good to go. AFTER the dude at the counter told me that hey would be replacing the tire cause there were razor blades wedged into it and it would cost me 10 bucks because I already had a warranty on the tires... this would replace the warranty with a new warranty on the new tire and there is a disposal fee...so I say, 10.
I decided to venture and I went to JBox for breakfast... like I used to when me n Choni was in college n stuffs...
It was kinda nice... ish... spent most of the time doing a play by play on my morning with Choni, JJ, and eating my sausage croissant combo... NOT really how I wanted to spend my lunch hour but I got in a walk so I guess it sort of washes out...riiiight?!? Right! Okay... I get back to the place, just as I was about to make a dent in my book that I am neglecting because I'm all grown up 'n shit I get called up to take care of my business... No charge, just a patch.. Jesus-pleasus... I got my final paperwork and got the HELL outta there...
Came back to work to find out some stupid shit popped off while I was gone, but no biggie, it's all fine. Also, found out a guy isn't here, that is detrimental to be getting a certain spreadsheet done in 45 minutes instead of 4-5hours... and no one knew he'd be gone starting YESTERDAY and will be back Monday... Uhm.. okay...
The Piles on my desk that I got rid of this morning were replaced with new piles.. but I couldn't get mad... cause how lucky I am really.
I am lucky, cause I work for a place that let me up and leave and take care of personal business in the middle of the damn morning...
I work for a place with cool people that help out a chick who is SWAMPED and doesn't have TIME to change the tire (let alone the will)...
I didn't have to pay for a new tire, or a deductible on a new tire...
That shit went sideways AFTER I parked at work and NOT while I had my family in the car...
...And I had a Father In Law who, even now, is STILL watching over us...
And it's because of all that, I just ate my spaghetti lunch for "dinner" cause I am also going to get our taxed done after work and I won't be home in time to sit down to dinner with my hunnies... but I get to have some later, so there's that...
...And speaking of cake, anybody else come home to a freshly baked cake yesterday? Hands? Anyone? No?? Just me?... Ok then...
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