Tuesday, June 19, 2007

You May Want To Sit Down For This! I Went On A Date!......And my car got towed.

For the past week or so I have had a barrage of moderately aggravating bad luck. I won't go into all of it. Some of it has something to do with church, some with car trouble, some with a combination of a lot of different things. The bad luck trip reached a climax this weekend when I went on a date and came back to find that my car had been towed. I had to fork over 121.00 to get it back. Why 121? Why not an even 120? My date mused that it might be an extra one dollar fee so that the towing dude can buy soda. I believe they do it because they can. They add an extra dollar to break your will to live. That being said, the date was fun and she was really cool, so it wasn't a bad situation. It was kind of an adventure. All things considered however, this was probably the most expensive date I've ever been on.
On Sunday I realized that my list of blood donors from the ward disappeared from off of my apartment counter. So I spent the better part of the day stewing and stressing about where it might be. I went to my family's: no luck. I searched my car: not there either. As the day wound to a close, I made one final effort to find the list so I could remind everyone of the blood drive that happened today. I drove to work in Pleasant Grove and searched all over my desk: Nothing. Then my car died. Garit and Branden came to my rescue in front of UVSC and helped jumpstart my car four different times as I slowly made my way accross Orem to the mechanic. At about midnight I rolled in and parked my car. Today at about noon I got a call from the mechanic. As we expected, I had a broken alternator. 300 bones later my car is in working condition. So much for saving money over the summer. But as I told my horrified mother, "that's what credit cards are for."

PS: I donated blood for the first time today and it wasn't bad at all. In fact, I liked it.... Maybe too much.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

300 bucks! thats awesome. mine was 400.

I wish i could give blood. I would sign up for every blood drive that came around. No one wants my blood unfortunately.

Davy J said...

no one wants gay, garit. they'll get it from you.

Daniel T said...

Garit I think you'd have problems answering the "Have you ever been a hooker for money or drugs?" question honestly.

Unknown said...

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Prick_ghost_riding

Unknown said...

think about that the next time you wanna "ghost ride the whip"

adam said...

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Unknown said...

so did you ask that inca chick if she was really a man?

ps you should write some more blogs.. you have some good stories..