This Is A Lucky Day?

I hopped in the van this morning, turned the key, and was greeted with complete silence. Nothing happened. It didn’t whine. It didn’t sort of turnover a little bit. It didn’t look at me, roll its eyes and chuckle. The van was totally dead.

When Nadia got home we took out the cables, jumped the van and drove it to our mechanic. He quickly determined that we needed a new battery. Our current battery wasn’t really very old. But if a battery no longer works then it no longer works so, even though it wasn’t very old, we needed a new battery.

(You can tell I know a lot about mechanics from that kind of sophisticated analysis, can’t you?)

When the job was completed our mechanic walked into his waiting area and said to me, “It’s your lucky day, this is only going to cost $100!”

I laughed and said, “You and I have a different definition of what makes a lucky day.”

Then we both laughed, I paid the bill and he laughed a little bit more.

When it comes to the vehicles at our house, someone else always gets the last laugh.

Hulk Angry. Hulk No Like Tire Problems

I’ve recently had a tire on my car repaired.  In fact, I’ve had this same tire on my car “repaired” four times by two different auto tire repair services.  But every time they give the car back declaring the tire to be “fixed” we find that it is still not fixed.

The most recent time the tire was fixed was about five days ago.  This time it was repaired at a shop that was recommended to me in this way:  “These guys are good.  They know how to do it right.  They can fix it and it will really be fixed.  Don’t mess around with other shops.  Take it to these guys.  They are like the Shaolin Monks of tire repair!”

(Okay, I made up the “Shaolin Monks” line.  But the other part is what I was told.)

So, when I was driving this morning and discovered the tire is still not properly repaired I noticed that I began to tremble and an intense feeling of distress and anger began to come over me.  Before I knew it—and in a manner that was beyond my control—I grew to a tremendous size and strength, ripping the clothes from my body as my muscles bulged.  And I noticed that my eyes and my skin turned green.

Me angry!

Me no like continued tire problems!

Me want to crush puny repair shop people!

Me need to count to 10 while taking deep breaths!