May 29, 2008
It's a Conspiracy!
For some odd reason, the powers that be do not want us to go see Speed Racer. I posted here about walking out halfway through and getting vouchers for another show. And so, every time we picked another day, something came up. We were going to go last night, when I got a phone call from my sister. They were going to move my dad to a assisted living facility and she wanted me to hang by the phone, just in case there were any problems. So, we decide to go to a 2pm showing. We left the house at 1:10pm. Now, I knew this tire was low. I had asked Mike to check it a couple of days ago. Up to this point, I had been checking the tire. I completely forgot about it as we took off. Since the roads around here are crap to start with, one doesn't really know whether they have a flat tire or if it's just the surface of the road. At a red light, a few blocks from the house, someone tooted their horn. Amanda looks up at the Semi truck next to us. "Mom!? That trucker is trying to say something". I look up at him, through the passenger window. "Ma'am? Your tire looks really low. In fact it looks flat! I don't think you should be driving on it!" I thanked him, pulled into the left turn lane, turned and pulled into a church parking lot. Damn! Thing was flatter than a pancake. Called AAA and a guy was out within half an hour. Saw a nail in the tire and told me that he could just fill it with air. It would hold enough to get me to a tire place and get it plugged. By the time he was done, it was 2:04pm. Past the start time of the movie. So, we are now home and are going to try for the 5:00pm show. We are wondering what's going to happen now.
Posted by Valkyre at May 29, 2008 03:04 PM