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November 26, 2006 - Fetching a Car for Dean
Starting Wednesday of last week Dean needed to be at his new job in the deep north west for 7:00am every morning. He didn't have a car, public transit doesn't go there from my place, I have never been able to get a hold of a cab company. This meant that Gill or I would have to drive him (40 min with clear roads) in the morning. So I did on Thursday and there was a fresh dusting of about a half of a foot of snow which made urvryone drive slower than tortoises (I hear tortoises drive slow) and ultimately I was 45 minutes late for work, bad news. Since Dean had already started the process of getting a car, a Jeep Wrangler, we would just have to help him out until this Tuesday. But on last Friday it was determined that it just wasn't going to work, so Dean rented a car but the only time it could be picked up on Saturday was when he was at work. Being the good host that I am I said I would go pick it up for him. So on Saturday I drove him to work at 6:20am and once I got home I slept for 20 minutes and took transit across town to the rental place but the closest stop was eight blocks away from Enterprise. I ran those eight blocks in -24°C, snowy, windy weather to make it there by 9:00am. I arrived at Enterprise (my face was all white and I looked like a Yeti, too bad I didn't get a pic) at 9:30am though there was the 007 Image movie I was going see that started at 9:30am and put on by ConocoPhillips, but looks like that's not gonna happen because the lady at the desk decided to give my car away so some guy could be drivin' across town. Becuase the movie was a write off Mark, Matt & I went to Denny's to get drunk eat some breakfast. During breakfast I get a call from Enterprise saying the previous rentor forgot his garage door opener in the car. We returned the opener to the guy after breakfast and caught the 11:30am showing of the new Bond movie. Awesome movie, Craig played a sick Bond.
2006-12-23 17:41:36 GMT
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