Thursday, July 29, 2004 :::
I was backing out of the driveway and my truck stalled out. It was smack dab in the middle of the street when this happened so I was totally blocking traffic. I couldn't get it started again so I got out and started pushing it back into the driveway.
People were honking and stuff, but no one got out to help me. Plus there were these 3 d00ds 2 houses down just sitting on their front porch watching me, plus this older man and a d00d sitting on their front porch directly across the street.
I pushed my truck over trying to get it back in the driveway but I couldn't get it all the way back in. It would go about a quarter of the way up but then it'd roll back down.
There was finally enough room on the other side of the street for one car to get by at a time.
Folks were still honking and I was getting ~pissed~.
I called my friend AJ to come give me a ride to work (and get my truck back in the driveway).
While I was waiting for him I emptied pretty much everything out of my truck. Since my truck was dead I couldn't get my windows to roll up.
Whenever he finally got here we tried pushing it into the driveway. We got it about 3/4 of the way up before it rolled back out again...
We kept trying but he was wearing chanclas (flip flops) so it wasn't like he had much room to be pushing.
Then some mexican d00d was driving by in a work van and he pulled over to give us some help.
Awesome of him.
We finally got it into the driveway and AJ took me to work.
I was only half an hour late.
Whenever I got off work David was there to bring me home. My dad was here working on my truck... apparently all that was wrong was that it needed the little plug things (on the battery) to be cleaned.
Whenever this had happened that time w/ my friend Lus, we went to his house and had poured a baking soda/water mix over the plugs and such... When it leaked down onto his driveway it was a gross greenish-brown mix that most likely killed the grass it touched.
Well we pretty much did that again, except we soaked the connector things in the goo this time. But once we were done it was that same greenish-brown goo.
We got it all worked out...
And then it started raining.
I just got my windows rolled up... but I forgot I had left my door open. So my entire front driver side seat is ~soaked~.
So then my dad was leaving... and that's when I noticed my door was open...
We (david & I) were running back and forth with towels to soak it up.
There's gonna be some ~funk~ in there.
And then david and I danced in the rain.
::: posted by tinafish at 1:10 AM :::