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Nala
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You ever have one of those days when things go bad for ya…well I was coming home from a soccer game, we lost 10-0, this week driving and thinking with my windows down. Oh yeah it’s like 92 degrees and my thick cotton polo is
drenching me in my own perspiration for the lack of functional AC in my
13 yr old truck. The thud of the wind in my truck made it virtually impossible to hear the radio cranked up, which is frustating enough until I get a call on my cell phone…my wife….must answer…but wait…ROAMING…big red letters spell out digital roaming to me while also communicating to me that “YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO PAY SO DON”T ANSWER IT AND PRAY it’s not an emergency.” I guess thats what you get when driving on the backroads of Kentucky…..Finally got to town and stopped for dinner before heading home…Subway sounds good, right…maybe if you didn’t get to the sub shop right before they close when soda nozzles are soaking in water and their clean prep boards are removed and your sandwich is dragged across the crud that gets collected underneath the usually sterile prep boards.
finally walk out with my sandwhich and soda to head over to Kroger so I can pick up a paper and some milk for the fam….I jump into the turning lane when everyone knows that at night with little traffic it equals….wait a very long time to turn! So, I had several thoughts of running the straightaway green and flipping a U-Turn; which would *cross fingers* hopefully be faster than waiting at this stupid red light…..but no, my patience persists…really it was a good time to start eating the sub…which tasted yummy at that moment in time….
Finally get to Kroger and park in the deserted end of the parking lot and proceed to the regular door I often use during daylight hours…everything was fine, the lights were on in the store and the “OPEN 24HRS” hung in my plain sight…but wait the automatic sliding door wouldn’t open…so I did the logical thing I tried to pry it open with my fingers…when I realized I was being watched by others pulling into the parking lot…I did what any smart person would do; I started coughing like I was about to loose a lung while I non chalantley walked over to the other side of the store to go in the doors that Stay open 24hours….(the coughing was induced by my love of the Sun Chips from Subway)…a
As I made my way in the “out” I almost hacked up my lung all over a Kroger bagger boy whom I also scared half to death by sneaking up on him from outside the glass door. I thought this night couldn’t get much better until I realized where the milk was located in the store….at the complete back and opposite end of the “ALWAYS OPEN” door I had walked in. As i made my way back to the far corner I grabbed the milk and thought my truck is right out this door maybe I can get it open from inside and pay the cashier and avoid walking all the way down to the other side of the store just to walk all the way back. Not happening though…I finally got outside and headed back to my truck and put the key in the ignition and click…turn…click…turn …click nada nothin zilch…since my truck is notorious for doing this (actually I have yet to spend the $150 to get the new starter and replace it…trying to see if I really need to change it)I decided to take a break from all the excitement. Not sure of how long my truck will hold out I turn on the radio and take a little sauna in my truck while trying to enjoy the other half of my sub…and drinking my extra large soda dry.
Five minutes later my truck decided to start and we were off on my last leg home….but wait just as I think my evening adventure is over…A cop pulls out of nowhere and gets behind me….You know the feeling…You check your seatbelt speedometer, your hands are at 10 and 2 and you let off on the gas just a little praying it’s not you ……while every ten seconds looking in the rearview please please not me…just then he pulls around me then proceeds to cut me off and light up the guy in front of me…wheewwww time for bed now…..