It should have been such a fun day today, but my friend's car overheated on the way to the water park. Buzzkill! We were only ten miles from the joint, somewhere in ski country New Jersey! My friend put anti-freeze in the radiator and we got back on the road. Yippeeee!
A half of a block later, his car broke down again. We took it to a mush-mouth mechanic in some backwoods mountainside town. He only had a few teeth because apparently he didn't bother to brush them ever at all, I'm thinking. He was nice enough though. Anyway, my friend, who's a man, talked to him and asked if could get us a cab to leave it there and dash off to the park. I got out of the car all beachy with serious cleavage and asked him if he wouldn't mind taking a look right now. Breasts won this round! He stopped working on the car in the garage and told us to pull up next to it outside the garage. He said that there must have been an air bubble in the radiator plug and flushed it out with a bunch of water in a plastic pail. He seemed to have fixed it. They charged us $20 and we tipped him $10. A small triumph, we were only an hour off course, re-energized...
We were really on our way this time. No problems with the car, were two miles from the water park and distant clouds suddenly became massive thunderstorms. By the time we got to the water park, they shut the rides down and said they would reopen if the weather cleared up. It didn't, of course, and after thirty or so minutes of trying to be optimistic and still get wet standing in the rain, we decided to find an alternate plan. For some reason, bowling sounded really good so we used his GPS system to head over to Plan B...
Wouldn't you know it, the car overheated exactly one minute after we got on the road?! He basically spent the next few hours putting enough anti-freeze in the car to make it another few miles to get to his hometown. That lasted for hours! Finally got to his parents to do a car change and eat some yummy but rude Mediterranean food. He promised we'd go to the water park for real and soon, but next time with a working car and prior knowledge of the weather report.
So, no water park today for me, but, if you could believe it, the day actually got worse, much worse!!! My roommate and I got into a major confrontation with our landlord over the many things wrong with our crappy New York City apartment. That seemed to last an hour or more inside of our apartment which continued into our neighbor's apartment and back into our own. His wife joined in on the abusive broken-English Greek from the old country disaster which progressed into an outright attack where he told us to leave right now. Then, it decompressed into let's just fix this now and blah blag blah...
Today sucked major ass! A total letdown. Boooh!!! I would rather not be disappointed by people, cars and life in general but on days like this, its unavoidable. On days like this, nothing works. We really tried to unwind on a water slide in the middle of a work week. The whole incident with our landlord, well, that's never happened to me before luckily and I don't even want to think about what comes next. "Decisions, decisions, decisions to make."
Then, to drive the whole bad day suckage deeper home, I got into it with not one, but two other people I happen to like. One of whom, I'm pretty sure I've alienated myself from to the point of legendary awkwardness. The other one, well I might be able to remedy both, who knows. Life really is like a road trip, sometimes you just don't make it to the water park, no matter how hard you try.
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