Today was a mostly boring day - not much to write about. But hey, you're bored too, right? That's why you're reading this! So allow me to attempt some form of entertainment in my writing.
Today was boring because I spent the majority of it in the car shop. Our Suburban's brakes were acting funny, so we took the car in and found out we needed the whole front brakes replaced. GAH!!! So after we doled out practically a month's rent to fix the car, (grrrrr....) we were left with boredom time to hang out in the auto repair shop. A mature, normal person would have brought a book and sat quietly somewhere reading until the car was fixed. Too bad Rex and I are not that mature or normal.
We started out by walking over to a display of tires. "Okay," I dictated to Rex. "This is what we're going to do. You have to pick a tire that is the princess of all of the tires, and you have to pick one that's the bad guy of all the tires." We closely analyzed ALL of the tire choices available, then we revealed our choices to each other. We picked different "princess" tires, but we chose the same "bad guy" one - a huge truck tire that was covered in scary looking rubber spikey things. That was a really clear choice for "bad guy."
Bored with personifying tires, we headed to the air freshener section. "New game!" I commanded. "You have to pick your favorite air freshener BEFORE you get a headache from standing in this aisle, and if you get a headache then you lose." The game was ON. We sniffed all of the air fresheners, and I declared my choice to be "Fresh Linen" while Rex chose "Mountain Pine." I did not find either of those choices very exciting.
Trying to find something else interesting, we looked at the signs above each aisle that says what the aisle contains. I was confused by "Aisle 7: Creepers." I asked Rex was a "creeper" is, and he said, "I don't know, but the first person to find out WINS!" So we raced to aisle 7 to figure out what a creeper is. In case you ever need to know, it's one of these:
I was hoping for something a little more "creepy," but alas. So after we discovered the creepers, we still had time to kill. We played the game "What steering wheel cover do you want?" (Rex chose a camouflage one, I chose memory foam. MEMORY FOAM STEERING WHEEL COVER!!). We played other random games like that until finally Rex said, "Christne, we should probably just go wait in the waiting area. I think we've done everything in this store." I complained that there was nothing fun to do in the waiting area. Rex investigated to see if I was right, and he exclaimed excitedly, "Look, Christine, they have one of THOSE!" I don't even know how to explain this object to you, so here's a picture:
I told Rex that I absolutely REFUSED to play with that thing. It's for babies. Plus, I had a way better idea: hide and seek in the auto parts store!! So I decided to hide first. I walked to a huge display of tires and realized that a really good hiding spot would be to actually hide INSIDE the row of tires (I would totally fit), but I figured it might be hard to explain what I was doing if a worker walked by. Plus, hiding in a row of tires strikes me as really immature (but somehow playing hide and seek in an auto parts store doesn't. Hmmm...) Since I didn't utilize my AWESOME spot, Rex quickly found me because I was wearing a bright pink shirt. Blast.
Rex said that our car was up on the thingy-do that they put cars on, and he wanted to watch them fix the brakes. I said fine and went to go see if the waiting room had any magazines. The best one I could find was this one, so I sat down to read it:
I was reading a very interesting article on whether or not wolves should be considered endangered when Rex came into the waiting area to check on me. He immediately grabbed my magazine and half shouted, "WHAT are you READING?!" The handful of men in the waiting area started staring at us. "Ummm...a magazine?" I offered. I thought Rex was going to be mad or something, but then he just started laughing and said, "I LOVE this magazine! I can't believe you chose that one! I LOVE YOU! I am taking a picture of this on my cell phone." The men in the waiting room looked at Rex and I as if we were aliens. Rex was kind of acting like one. So he took a picture of me READING A MAGAZINE on his cell phone. That has to cross some sort of "boredom" line.
Shortly after that, I got a call on my cell phone from a lady "doing a survey about home mortgages - do you have a few minutes?" I said sure (I mean, I really had nothing better to do), and took a twenty minute phone survey on mortgages, something I know nothing about. Rex was watching the car, and I just walked around him in circles while on my phone talking to this random lady.
The auto shop finished our car 1 and a half hours earlier than expected! HOORAY! And they did a great job! So I think I discovered a secret of life today: if you're annoying enough at an auto parts shop, they'll get you out of there as quickly as possible.
I guess today wasn't so boring after all!
But I REALLY need to go to sleep.
Haha, I love your blog. It makes me laugh every time I read it. Not surprising you needed new brakes after all that driving in the mountains on the way out there.
ReplyDeleteNext time you should totally hide in the tires. Just explain what you are doing if someone asks and then you will get out of there even faster! :)
Rex's choices of air freshener and steering wheel cover make me laugh. Even I could have predicted those choices! Yours are slightly more interesting. I didn't know they made memory foam covers!!!