Skipping school the hard way
Apr 15, 2009 A day in our life
Today was a Monday.
No I haven’t lost my calendar. I know technically today was Wednesday. But it sure felt like a Monday.
It all started when I got out of bed…
When my alarm went off at 6:50, I glared it wishing it to shut the hell up. But it just kept right on beeping. So I hit snooze.
10 minutes later when that fucking thing starting beeping again I gave some serious thought to just turning it off, rolling over, and dreaming about an academy award winning performance of “oh shit my alarm never went off” to be performed about 2 hours later. Instead I hit snooze to think it over.
10 more minutes and I realized I had to drag my tired butt out of bed and get in the shower. No skipping school. I’m an adult now. I need to be responsible. Or at least put some sort of effort towards responsible. So I slithered down to the laundry room/place-where-I-keep-my-clothes-because-I’m-too-lazy-to-carry-them-allll-the-waaaayyy-up-to-my-room for clothes and a towel.
I made my way to the bathroom and jumped in the shower. The shower that has a new “green” shower head that I’d like to rip off, throw in the street, and then drive over about 50 times. Going green is a wonderful thing. And I hope to go green in many aspects of our lives. But my shower head is not one of those ways. The water comes out so slowly it takes me twice as long to wash my hair in freezing cold water since the teens stole all the hot water. Green shower heads can kiss my ass. I want a shower head that beats me in the head with it’s pressure. A shower head that screams “wake up you lazy ass.”
As I was putting my shoes on I realized I only had 10 minutes to get to school. I need at least 15. So I was going to be late.
I gave Lee a quick kiss and scrambled towards the door when Lee said, “Oh shit.” I could read his mind and knew exactly what he was oh shitting about. He forgot to put gas in my truck. And I was on E. I was below E.
“Great. Now I’m really going to be late because I have to get gas,” I grumbled as I stomped out the door.
I made it about three blocks before the truck died. Out of gas.
FUCK!
We live right by a gas station. It’s just six blocks away. I couldn’t even make it 6 blocks for crying out loud.
Lee had to bring me some gas. But the truck still wouldn’t start. So we jumped it. Still nothing.
We got more gas. We jumped it again. Nothing.
Great.
Lee gave it one more go. One last jump before we lost our damn minds right there in the middle of the street. And the truck started.
By that point I was 45 minutes late for school. So I skipped anyway.
I should have just stayed in bed. You should always go with your first instinct.
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Tags: car troubles, college, out of gas, skipping school
April 18th, 2009 at 10:01 am
That’s really rough. Thank goodness we can always start afresh “tomorrow”!
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April 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am
It’s so funny how when one thing goes wrong, more is sure to follow! I hate when someone else drives my car and leaves me on empty- usually happens when I have somewhere far to drive the next day. I think next time you should just stay in bed and forget about school!
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April 19th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Lee did not run said truck out of gas therefore he is not responsible for filling it up
April 19th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Yes, Lee is responsible for filling it up because Lee always fills up the cars with gas. We’ve had that truck for almost a year and I have put gas in it exactly 1/2 a time. I say half a time because Lee met me at the gas station after I had started filling up and finished the fill up.
April 19th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Lee cant fill it up if he doesnt know its empty He doesnt read minds
April 19th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Yes, but in this case Lee knew it was empty a full day before it ran out of gas.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:35 am
But did “my car died” go over better…academy award performance wise…then “my alarm didn’t go off”? lol
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April 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I have to come to Lee’s defense on this one… If you didn’t leave enough gas in the truck to make it to the nearest filling station, Lee was screwed. Even if he had the responsibility of filling the truck with gas, you made that task impossible.
Cheers,
Matt
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