blessings in disguise...

so yesterday, my mom, who was borrowing my car while hers was in the shop, was turning a corner about a block away, on her way home to her loving, perfect, eldest daughter, often mistaken for an angel, when, lo and behold, my muffler fell off. just fell off. are you kidding me?? yeah. my luck, i tell ya...anyways, she managed to get the car home, where i laid hands and prayed...and then cursed it to oblivion in nothing...so, i had to drive my mom to the dealership, and my dad's brilliant idea is to use his old car, the one i'm taking my stereo from...yeah, that piece of...junk...so, i had to drive the clunker. half way there we realize there's something wrong with the tires, but we have to get mom's car. so we keep going, we get to the car place, and i check my tires. there's a bubble each on at least two of them. brilliant. so i have to drive home. i drive about 25 the whole way back, because testing my luck is inadvisable, and finally make it about a mile and a half away, when, oh yes, it starts raining. well, the windows were down because myrtle doesn't have a/c, but i soon realized i couldn't put them up. why, you ask? the wipers don't work, and it's generally advised that you stay on your side of the yellow line. loads of traffic (it's the weekend on a tourist island), a zig-zag way back, and it starts raining while i am without wipers. oyve. so, i'm making my slow way home amongst the traffic and now rain, windows open with the water pouring in so i can watch the line and look for the stop signs, the tires, shady as is, don't have traction because they've been sitting for a year and a half, on slippery roads that are just wet enough to make hydroplaning a likely possibility. i make it home (the trip taking altogether about 3 times as long as it should have), roll up the windows, turn off the car, open the door, and it stops raining. inevitable. i was wet.

but see this thought occurred to me. maybe i needed to get wet. when all was said and done, it wasn't that big of a deal. it only rained toward the end of the trip, the part of the road i know best. it could have rained the whole way, and i think i've only ever driven on harborside rd twice. i didn't have a blowout, and i could have. very easily. but the best part of this story happened this morning. a friend from church came over, for other some reason unrelated, and found out about my muffler issue. and he offered to fix it. just like that. amazing. people like him deserve a metal.

in other news, i spent most of the day trying to find random tools to get my car stereo out and never actually could find them anywhere. it seems they make everything to put them in, but never expect you'll want to take them out or, heaven forbid, lose the thing that came with the stereo. oh well, i'll have to figure out some ingenious way to make it work. at any rate, i'm out for now.