Karma Police
Everytime that I make a note that my life is going exceedingly well, something comes along and kicks me in the ass.
I have been living a very charmed life post graduation. I have landed in a situation where I will get to live in my parents house, without my parents. For now I have to live with my parents which is not so bad when you consider free food, free housing, and regularly packed lunches and ironed clothes.
I have landed the coolest job possible for me. I get to sit around think about how to sell beer, tell jokes and hang out with people who are as dorky and immature as I am. Example: the other day I was walking out of a happy hour after work with my friend Adam. We hear a knock on the window next to us and see a hand flipping us off. Adam asks, what was that? My response, "That was my VP flipping us off" as I casually threw my middle finger right back at his direction. The perks for this job have been rediculous, Rockies Games, Concerts, and Free Beer. Plus I am doing really good work that is fun, challenging and creative.
I am almost completely recovered from my sternum break. I was able to play and contribute to our state championship victory and I am running very well going into regionals.
So just as I was about to drive to a team dinner thinking, man my life is phat. White Lightning (my car) died. This wasn't your average death for a car. White Lightning made a piece of work with this one. White lightning was giving me some trouble starting so I had her jumped. I was pretty pissed because I just had the battery replaced. I decided to drive it back to the repair shop to complain about the faulty maintence. On my way home I take two of the biggest highways in Denver, 6 and I-25. Pretty soon I realize there is something wrong with White Lightning. The battery light and parking break light come on, then the airbag light starts flashing. Thinking that death is pretty much imminent I decide I need to get the car off the road. Unfortunately this is when White Lightning shuts down, mid drive, on the highway. I am coasting 25 mph trying to pull my car off the road, with no lights, no accleration. Cars are pissed and swerving around me. Somehow I pull off on the exit of I-25 and highway 6. It's 8 pm its dark and I have no hazards or any other way to notify speeding cars that I am a sitting duck.
After nearly shitting myself for 10 minutes, trying to call someone to help me a car pulls up behind me to flash their hazards. A tow truck comes and I am out alive, barely. White Lightning's alternator died, the third major repair in three months. To go along with that all my calls used up the last minutes of my cell phone, which also has stopped working.
So I don't have a phone, or a car, I pretty much lost all of my independence.
Good Karma is on the way.
I have been living a very charmed life post graduation. I have landed in a situation where I will get to live in my parents house, without my parents. For now I have to live with my parents which is not so bad when you consider free food, free housing, and regularly packed lunches and ironed clothes.
I have landed the coolest job possible for me. I get to sit around think about how to sell beer, tell jokes and hang out with people who are as dorky and immature as I am. Example: the other day I was walking out of a happy hour after work with my friend Adam. We hear a knock on the window next to us and see a hand flipping us off. Adam asks, what was that? My response, "That was my VP flipping us off" as I casually threw my middle finger right back at his direction. The perks for this job have been rediculous, Rockies Games, Concerts, and Free Beer. Plus I am doing really good work that is fun, challenging and creative.
I am almost completely recovered from my sternum break. I was able to play and contribute to our state championship victory and I am running very well going into regionals.
So just as I was about to drive to a team dinner thinking, man my life is phat. White Lightning (my car) died. This wasn't your average death for a car. White Lightning made a piece of work with this one. White lightning was giving me some trouble starting so I had her jumped. I was pretty pissed because I just had the battery replaced. I decided to drive it back to the repair shop to complain about the faulty maintence. On my way home I take two of the biggest highways in Denver, 6 and I-25. Pretty soon I realize there is something wrong with White Lightning. The battery light and parking break light come on, then the airbag light starts flashing. Thinking that death is pretty much imminent I decide I need to get the car off the road. Unfortunately this is when White Lightning shuts down, mid drive, on the highway. I am coasting 25 mph trying to pull my car off the road, with no lights, no accleration. Cars are pissed and swerving around me. Somehow I pull off on the exit of I-25 and highway 6. It's 8 pm its dark and I have no hazards or any other way to notify speeding cars that I am a sitting duck.
After nearly shitting myself for 10 minutes, trying to call someone to help me a car pulls up behind me to flash their hazards. A tow truck comes and I am out alive, barely. White Lightning's alternator died, the third major repair in three months. To go along with that all my calls used up the last minutes of my cell phone, which also has stopped working.
So I don't have a phone, or a car, I pretty much lost all of my independence.
Good Karma is on the way.
posted by IrishZag at 9:14 AM
3 Comments:
Those Sentras definitely aren't reliable (my brother's '93 Sentra, affectionately known as the "Sandy V" has broken down numerous times as well) but they got character. You got to respect that.
Sorry to hear about your shitty day.
if it makes you feel any better (which it won't) i got into a car accident last friday night.
not a good car karma week.
Irish, have you learned NOTHING from my luck this past year? Do not challenge worse or expect good karma, because that always bites you in the ass. Did you know that the Thursday after graduation I totalled my car?
Yeah...just keep plugging along. It seriously could be worse.
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