What the World?
Things I learned Yesterday or Holy Crap What Else Will Happen???
1. It is scarily easy to melt jumper cables.
2. Nobody will change a car battery on a Chrysler Concorde. Nobody. Here’s how the conversation goes:
Me (or Justin): Hi! How late are you guys open?
Them (Auto Zone, Wal-Mart, etc): Um… 8pm.
Me: Great! Do you guys do battery changes?
Them: Yes, if you buy the battery here.
Me: Awesome! Um, more specifically will you change the battery on a Chrysler Concorde?
Them: Not that car!!!!
Them: *click*
Why? Why will noone change the battery on Justin’s car? Because look where the dang battery is.
Do you see the battery? Down in that hole…where you see a silver rectangle thing with two cables? That’s the battery. It’s underneath (a) the air filter which was removed so the battery could even be seen in this photo and (b) the front fender.
3. To remove a battery from a Chrysler Concorde you have to remove the tire. I kid you not. That’s why nobody will do it. The tire has to be removed and the plastic thing that sits on top of the tire has to be taken out, then the battery slides out of it’s hidey hole.
4. Apparently when the maintenance man says “Hey, we’ll be shutting off the water in the apartments today from 9am to 4pm for maintenance” the correct response is to walk directly to the bathtub, plug the drain, and turn both faucets wide open. Ask me how I know.
5. The cat does not mind leaks in the ceiling so much. But I…I kinda do.
6. This is apparently the proper way to dry the sheet rock in our leaky ceiling so it does not bow out and give me the strong impression that the ceiling is falling in.
Right…. and just so you know…this is directly in front of our front door. I feel safe.
7. The maintenance people have not been using rat poison in our apartment since we move in. So, it’s most likely that we’ve cleaned out any that was already here since we’ve been here for 2 years. Biscuit gets to live to fight another mouse.
8. People in our neighborhood leave t.v.s in the bushes.
9. When Wal-Mart says they charge $65 for a car battery, they really mean $80. Surprise!!!
After all that, I don’t think I can take anymore little “lessons” from the universe. I’m done learning.
I would be done learning, too. Apparently, though, Blogger has gone and changed everything, so now every click is a surprise!
If it makes you feel any better, back when I had my Buick (aka The White Pearl), we took it to Wal-Mart for an oil change. After an hour, we went to go see if they were done.
Me: Is my car done?
Them: Which one?
M: *gives discription*
T: Oh… we couldn’t do it.
M: Why not?
T: There’s a dent in the oil pan.
M: What?!
T: It was like that when we looked at it.
M: Can the oil still be changed?
T: Yes.
M: Then why didn’t you?
T: There’s a dent in the oil pan.
Upon further inspection at home, the dent was fairly noticeable, but would not hender even an amature oil changer… With Adam’s (as in Adam and Gina) help, we changed our oil!