Just wanted to blog about my day yesterday. I know most of us have a hard time on Mondays getting back into the swing of things. Well as some of you know I test water which means I work in some well houses. I go into the well house and make sure the chemicals are “balanced”. Yesterday started as normal as any other day. Don woke me up and I asked for 5 more minutes. Well I finally got up, got ready and left. (My folks own the company I work for) I stopped and picked my mom up and off we went. As a general rule we are usually done in Mt Airy and headed to Stokes County by 9AM. But not yesterday. Everything went wrong. The worst for the morning was when Mama asked me to cut a water valve off and it came off in my hand. It had rusted in two! There is nothing like Fire hydrant water pressure “removing” you from a building. When I was out of the building water was pooling every where. I was soaking wet all but my feet. So that was OK. As I was trying to make my way back into the building to “save” Mama I stepped in a pool of water so now my dry feet were soaked! Oh well! We finally got the water cut off. So at 11:00AM we were finally leaving Mt Airy headed to Sparta. Someone told us about a really good restaurant in Sparta, so I looked it up on “Gurdy”, my GPS. Gurdy said it was 10 miles away so off we went. I drove and drove and then I drove some more. Finally as hunger was overtaking me I realized Gurdy was taking me to a cafe by the same name in Independence VA! Uhh Ohh! So I turned around and drove back to Sparta. We stopped and ate lunch without incidence. Then we headed for North Wilkesboro. I’m driving down HWY 18 and as some of you know I got a ticket about a month ago. So I have been carefully monitoring my speed and road rage. As I look up in my rearview mirror I see a Highway Patrol Lady in a Tahoe behind me. So I set my cruise control. I was being so good! Well when I got to the bottom of the mountain she turned her lights on! What??? What did I do? So I woke Mama up and asked her to get the registration card out (My job is driving. Mama’s job is sleeping). I was driving a company car. The lady walks up to the car asks me how I’m doing. I say fine then she proceeds to tell the tags have expired. I give her the registration, she goes back to her vehicle and did whatever the poe poe do when they go back to their vehicles. She comes back and says “Oh your tags don’t expire till midnight tonight. The color confused me.” Then ask my age and told me to “Have a great day and drive safely and get your car inspected before tomorrow!” What? No “I’m sorry I falsely accused you of having expired tags”, no “I’m sorry” for anything. Oh well. So we head off in search of a place to get the car inspected. We soon learned that everyone else in NC were as well.
We had to get to the lab before 5PM. We were so far behind that we finally made it to the lab at 4:49. I went in to drop off my samples and was given the stink eye by the girl at the window who wasn’t happy with my late arrival. Anywho, I turned in my samples, got new sample bottles and was out of there by 5. We were in Kernersville and we were looking for an inspection station. (Is it station? Inspection store just doesn’t sound right.) We finally found one open past 5PM. I got us checked in and they told us that there were two people in front of us, we waited AN HOUR! I learned during this hour wait that the tags won’t expire until NEXT month! The Highway Patrol Lady was evidently a bit more confused than we thought! Because of her we lost half a day of work, which I now have to make up Thursday. Meanwhile Don calls to tell me the replacement phone I had ordered had come. (I dropped my new phone after having it only a week and broke the screen. I had to pay $100.00 deductible.) Anyway when UPS “made the drop” they must’ve left the phone on the ground, because my dog got the phone and chewed it up! Which is what Don had called to tell me! So now I have two broken phones. The phone company told Don I was going to have to pay another $100.00 deductible. By this time I am not happy. It was 6PM I was wet, late, and broke!
After we left the Inspection store we did one more job then it was dark. So we headed home. When I got home (at 8PM) I called my phone provider explained the situation. After being on hold for 45 minutes(during which I facebooked about my rotten day) they finally came back and told me they would send me another new phone and THEY would pay for overnight shipping. So my day actually ended on a positive note. But in the end I realized even though it was Monday ALL DAY, I was home with my family and we were together, healthy, and safe. And that made Monday a great day ALL DAY!
PS And thanks to all my friends who sent encouraging emails and Facebook posts! You’re the best!
