All Wet

This has nothing to do with anything, but I think this picture of Maybe is really cute:

Ok, so today Justin and I were going to take a quick trip to Lubbock to see The 300. (If you get to the movies before 5pm, it's only $5.) So we stopped for gas as we got into town, and when Justin got back in the car, the battery was dead. (This is after a long string of battery deaths and restarts that we've had over the past few months. Yes, we knew that we should probably buy a new battery, but we haven't wanted to spend the money on it because, as it turns out, they are quite expensive.) Sooo, Justin asks the guy driving the Best Buy Geek Squad VW beetle for a jump so that we can get to an auto parts store and sell our souls for a battery. He agrees to boost us, but it doesn't work (I say it's because his car had a weird battery, but Justin says that his battery just wasn't strong enough for the boost...whatever.) Justin then asks him if he would mind taking him to the auto parts store down the street about a mile so he can buy a battery, and just drop him off there. He doesn't want him to wait or anything, just a drop off...the guy says "nope, good luck," and takes off. Did I mention that it's POURING DOWN RAIN? Oh, and FREEZING.

Justin takes off walking for the auto parts store, and I sit in the car crying because I'm afraid he's going to get run over on the highway, and about 10 minutes later he comes back, soaked and without a battery because it has started raining harder and he can't make it to the store because the road is all flooded and there is no sidewalk, and he keeps getting tidal waved by the cars, which just keep on speeding by. THEN we decide to call the roadside assistance number that is in our phone. Hey, we pay for that, why not use it? So I call them, and they tell me that we do not in fact, have roadside assistance, in spite of the fact that we remember specifically asking for it when we signed up for this phone plan. THEN the cell phone battery died. (My curling iron was also dead this morning...I think we're developing a pattern.)

The rain started to let up and Justin headed out again for the auto parts store. This time someone stopped and picked him up. (Never mind the fact that the guy was drunk and almost got them run over by a Humvee. We are still very grateful for his help.) He took Justin to the store, and then brought him back. They tried to jump our existing battery again, just for giggles and it started. (see I told you it was that damn Bug.) We high-tailed it to the auto parts store, as they had told Justin that they would install it for free, but once they got our old battery out it turned out that the ($100!!) battery we had purchased was in fact, not the correct kind. They didn't have the right one, but someone at the other store did and they could bring it right over...Might as well have a 10 minute oil change while we wait, since we're well over the limit on that particular maintenance chore.

ONE HOUR LATER...

The guy arrives with our fresh new battery, we shell out some more cash for it, (apparently they just keep getting more expensive the longer you wait) and we are on our merry way. By this time we were waaaay too drained to see the movie, so we came home to warm up, (dry off in Justin's case) and get taken out for free dinner by my dad. Yay Dad! We managed to spend four hours and nearly $200 in Lubbock today and not get off 19th street. That takes some serious talent.

So, that was our day, how was yours?