And it’s only 3 days old. Pauline was in Indiana and I was in St Pete on a boat all day Sunday, both of us enjoyed our day. And on my way home I noticed the engine was making more noise then normal, and the ac cut off for a few minutes.
I woke up early Monday and had a “private session†for jury duty at 930am and was asked to clarify some questions, and I was told to report back at 130pm and after I left I stopped and got the mail and the engine died. After I started it, it was ok, until I slowed down and it wanted to die.
I went back to court and once more the truck wanted to die. Pauline was coming in at 5:20pm into Orlando which is a 45 min drive and for the past week I had been getting out of court between 5pm and 530pm, so she was just going to meet me outside the baggage claim since by the time she got off the plane, got her bag I should be there. We got out of court at 5:10 so I called to leave a message on Pauline’s cell telling her I was on my way and she answered, the plane landed 30 mins early… what are the odds?
So I drive all the way to Orlando and I didn’t hear the noise as I loud as it was Sunday night, I pick Pauline up and I swear as soon as she got in the truck, the ac stopped working, so it was a long miserable drive home. We got home and I looked over the engine and not seeing anything wrong I went to go get some food and on the way out I stopped at our mail box (3 blocks away) and the truck died, as soon as I started it, it died. It took about 10 tries before I could get it running, turned around and coast it home, with no power steering. I open the hood and the belt is broke.
Ok, it’s pain in the ass, but no biggie, Pauline called a friend and she got the new belt for us and came over so I could put it on. Now every vehicle I have ever worked on has a pulley on a spring that you can turn 1†or so and it allows you to put the belt on with ease…. not this one. It took me an hour to get it on. So Pauline starts the truck for me and as soon as she did, it ate the new belt, and then I knew we were screwed.
So her friend takes her to a car rental place and she gets a rental, and then today we have the truck towed to a dealership. The air compressor is shot, $1200. Ok, now we are just mad, but what can we do? Meanwhile I am in court and after a few hours it is once more my turn for questions and then I am excused from jury duty. I still can not say anything more on this case.
So I am physically and mentally beat, pissed off over the truck and the timing of it all and then I get home and find out a close friend has had a death in the family. So now I am really bummed, just when you think the world can’t get any worse for you, it shows you that in the grand scheme of life, these “major issues†that you think are major are really not shit.
The truck is now fixed and we will pick it up tomorrow I think, tonight I just want to chill out, Pauline had to change her work schedules from opening to closing today due to the truck issues, so now she got home at midnight and had to go in at 7am todoay. So she is in for a rough few more days at least, and with all the traveling she has done she won’t get a day off for another week.
All I know is I want a “do over†for the last 2 days