When you look your grossest...

That's when something's going to happen, isn't it? I went out this afternoon. My hair was really needing a shampoo and blow dry! I had two stops to make. One, at the car wash, and 2 was @ 7-11. I made my purchase @ 7-11 and when I got in the car it wouldn't start. Dead battery, I guessed. Thank goodness the car didn't die while it was in the car wash!!! I called Howard and discussed the matter with him. Call AAA, for sure, but sometimes they have a truck that has batteries and they'll replace it for you and the question was do we wait for that or just have it towed to our mechanic? We did that a while back, (had AAA replace our battery) in our driveway but, my car engine is built weirdly and the battery is positioned way low, and they guy ended up having to take the wheel off to get it changed and it took him forever. We decided to just do whatever we needed to that would get the tow truck there the fastest. So, there I was, sitting in the 7-11 parking lot with greasy hair and it's hot outside. Luckily, I had enough juice left in the battery to operate my electric windows and I was able to get them down and there was a breeze. And, I had grabbed a soda out of the fridge before I left. Howard was on his way and so I proceeded to do some good people watching. If you need some good, cheap entertainment, sit in front of a 7-11 on a Saturday afternoon and see the flow of VERY interesting people! So, I tried to call AAA and I must have been in a dead spot because my phone kept dropping the call.

Howard arrived, and was on the phone with them. Long story short, AAA showed up, but in the mean time, I realized that the battery was so dead I couldn't get my windows back up. So, if we towed it, I wouldn't have any way to secure the car over the weekend and I didn't want to leave it wide open, parked in the parking lot, because that's just an invite to STEAL ME! So, when Mr. AAA got there, he gave me a jump and, lucky day, it started and I was able to roll up my window. Mr. AAA said he'd follow us to the shop "just to make sure" it didn't die again. I made it all the way, but was waiting for traffic to clear to make the turn into the parking lot and it died again! Another jump got me into the parking lot. So, the car is at the Car Doctor.

The good things in this story are these:
1) AAA. I SO recommend them. They've saved our bacon lots of times and I would hate to be without the service now that I've had it.
2) It was Saturday and Howard was able to come to my aide and follow us to the shop and give me a ride home. Howard and I sat in our cars next to each other in the 7-11 parking lot and had a nice little Saturday afternoon date watching people come and go and visited. Nice in a weird way!
3) While it was hot and my hair was greasy, there was a nice breeze blowing and the sun was not shining in the front windshield. Greasy hair makes it feel hotter, you know. And, I was able to pass the time reading some in the Book of Mormon that I just happened to have in the backseat of my car!
4) We have an extra car, so getting to/from work on Monday isn't an issue as it sometimes has been in the past.

So, all in all, while it was not the afternoon I would have chosen, it turned out to be not so bad!

And Michael Phelps won his first Olympic Gold medal today!