(Poached from an email. My apologies to the recipient, but there are some things that must be shared, and one is that email.)
The rosy fingertips of Dawn poked me in the eye at my cousin's house in
Brighton. They were accompanied by a raging headache (which I fully
deserved.) I had to wake her up (my cousin, not Dawn) and cajole her into
driving me home to feed brunch to the foreigners. When she arrived at my
fly pad, she started ticking off all the things I would need to make this
house a home. She had a point about the shower curtain.
"Okay, drive me to Target," I said.
"Don't tell me what to do," she replied.
(Yeah. I'm sick of making up dialogue now; you'll have to imagine it
yourself.)
The Target shopping was depressing and queazy, but not difficult. The
difficult part was leaving the parking lot with a vehicle that refused to
drive. (Her name in Rhonda, and she's a Jetta.) Anna (my cousin) tried
everything to convince Rhonda to take us home. She tried cursing, and
sweet-talking, and rolling the windows up and down, but to no avail.
Luckily, I was in possession of a magical AAA card, good for one free tow
(within three miles). So we called the nice people at the call center and
they told us it would be a mere 90 minutes before help arrived. No
problem. After 93 minutes in the very cold car, we called them back.
"We understand there's some bad weather in the area. Apparently, that's
slowing down the tow company. They will be there in no more that 30 more
minutes," said Charles, apologetically.
64 minutes later we called again.
"Yeah, we have no idea when they'll get to you," said Kristie (or
something, I only really remember Charles (he sounded hott!))
All told, we spent 3 and a half hours in the car with no heat before they
rescued us. The headache is still there, but a hot shower did much to
thaw my frozen soul.
PS - Thanks to all of you who sent jokes, good wishes and told us stories during our long ordeal. Y'all are the best. Please enjoy this series of text messages with Miya:
M: KNOCK KNOCK
Me: Who's it?
M: Obviously not your tow truck!
Bitch.
Posted by liz at January 8, 2005 04:57 PMOnly 3 mile tow radius? I remember when triple AAA would tow up to 90 miles, and yes I have had them tow me 90 miles before. Maybe the 90 mile thing is for AAA plus.
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