The Vance's Journal

"I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own" -Adam Savage, Mythbusters

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining........

This phrase was what I wanted to say the the lovely people of AAA yesterday because of their wonderfull customer service. I suppose y'all are wondering what I mean? of course you are you just don't know it yet. I let my good friend sue borrow my car so she could take her daughter Kierstyn to see her boyfriend/fiancee person thing. Those of you who know who Kierstyn and Sue or know of them through my stories know who I'm talking about. Well they take off and approx. 15 minutes later we get a call from them saying that the car blew a tire and they can't get the lug nut off and that I need to call AAA and get them down there to help. So I did and they said that since I wasn't there on the scene their wasn't anything they could do. So I said fine and we traveled to Exit 15 where they were stranded and I called AAA a second time and they said that because of the first call that they have in their system there's nothing that they can do because I wasn't on the scene at the time of the incident and that there is no way of proving that I was on the scene or not, how they didn't hear all the semi's and cars going by honking is beyond me. So I got into a 15 minute bitch fit with them. We then had the brilliant Idea of popping the other tire (which we didn't do BTW don't fret) so I asked him if that would count and would they come down in that instance. And the supervisor said no it wouldn't because of the initial incident report. So I ended up hanging up on said supervisor who wasn't all that super in the first place. So we tried spraying the nuts with WD-40 and found a lug nut wrench that fit tighter on the nuts and it got them off. We thought we were in the clear but the tire was stuck and wouldn't get off. Keep in mind that all this time we had a 1 year old and a 4 year old in another car behind us in the breakdown lane. So Sue decided to take them home in the other car because they were getting fussy and cold so Kierstyn and I waited by the car for a friend of hers who was coming with some tools to help get it off. So needless to say he got there and managed to kick hard enough that the tire came off and we put the donut on and went on our merry way. We get back to bath to Emily's dad's benefit dinner to raise money for her and her family because as I'm sure many of you know her dad died of cancer a couple months ago. The dinner went fabulous btw. So we get out of the dinner and I go to sit in my car and the seat is stuck in full recline position it's just floppin around so I dunno what's wrong with it but I have to sit up when I drive with no back support until I can figure out what's wrong with it. So that's all, that's my weekend i'm now going to sit down to a nice steak and unwind. I will post later, try not to pull your hair out. Tune In Next time same Vance Time, Same Vance Channel.