So I wrote a post today while I was sitting in the car wash line because it takes about 45 minutes to get into the actual wash. I was all set up to wait with my phone, iPod, and iPad, watching Doctor Who and drinking Redbull. I made it up to the door, the door opened and my car would not start! Some old man came up to my car and told me I had to drive in... because obviously my problem was that I did not understand how a car wash works. He got two twenty somethings to push my car into the fork between the two car wash lanes and the people who worked there came out. They said that they could have just pushed me through the wash but because I was in the fork I had to wait until one of the lanes was free to go through to the other side where a tow truck could pick me up. After my entire Doctor Who episode the lane was finally free and I made it to the actual parking lot. I called my friend Cassandra who came with our friend Jessica to wait with me while I called CAA (a membership that my parents got me as an adult Christmas gift). They would not believe me that there was a Co-op car wash on the street where I was waiting and told the tow truck to pick me up at a different car wash. Obviously Justin the tow truck guy had a difficult time finding me on a street where I wasn't and started texting me to find out where I actually was. He came and got my car and took it to the garage. Then Cassandra and Jess took me to Fudruckers for supper, partly to cheer me up and partly because they were already going there.
So what I learned from the situation is having your car die in the actual car wash is very embarrassing. I handled the situation much more calmly then I would have predicted that I would if someone had told me this was going to happen. I have been having a lot of car troubles recently and my car is not very old; I do not want to have to buy a new one yet. Since it is the start of finals I will have to wait until May to do anything about the situation. I guess my other post about how happy I am that it finally feels like summer and how relaxed I was is not irrelevant. Now I need to study psychology because I lost about three hours to another car disaster.
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