Talk about BAD LUCK...

People. Let me say its just been $hittiest week on record for a long long time. This week at work has just been non-stop. The phones would ring and it seem like the caller had nothing to do but bitch, whine, complain, curse me out, chew me to new assholes, and whatever else could go wrong went wrong. LOST, however, was off the chain this week. It appears they are "knocking" off one of the main characters, Locke. I went out with my friend Michael to have a steak dinner on Wednesday before LOST. It was very very yummy and tasty. Outback is always a good place for steak. I decided on Thursday that when I got home from work, I would eat me some din din and call it an early night and get plenty of rest, so I wouldn't be exhausted after work on Friday and enjoy the evening. So, I crashed and burned by 8pm. I woke up this morning right at 6 and checked the email and stuff. I was about to hit the shower when my alarm went off to get me up. I cut it off and noticed I had a missed text message from Rachael. She told me I would need to find a ride to work today. I by chance looked outside and figured something was wrong with her car, by the way it was parked in the driveway and I noticed a big stain on the driveway in front of her car. So I called out of work, and she woke up shortly there after. She told me the car wouldn't go anywhere. It appeared that her transmission had conked out on her. So, she called her brother Grant to borrow the truck he was borrowing from their mom's boyfriend. He came and picked her up and she came back home and called around to some tranny shops. She found Aamco and they were nice enough to send out a tow truck for her to tow it to their shop (which happened to be down the street from work). We followed the towtruck to Aamco. Well, as our luck would have it, we had to come back home because Rachael forgot the remote to her alarm. We took that back to the shop and we stopped by the mall on the way back home so I could order Mom's gift for Mother's day. I can't say what it is, just yet, not sure if she reads this or not. So we came back home after that and Lisa met up with us here at the house. Well Aamco called and told Rachael the amount to fix her car. I felt so bad for her because she was crying. It's gonna cost $2000 to rebuild the tranny and a couple of other things that are broke and that it would take a couple of days to fix but they are closed on Sundays. Rachael called Aamco back to tell them to go ahead and fix it and asked if they could install her spark plugs. Rachael already had the plugs here at the house, so that meant we had to drop them off at the shop. The guy was nice enough not to charge her for it. So I looked around online and I found that Enterprise had a 3 day weekend special on a car to rent since Grant needed the truck back. We decided we would split that together and rent a car. So with the truck, we stopped at the mall on the way there and picked up Mom's gift and then drop off the plugs at the shop. I figured with the crappy day we had had, I would treat us to lunch and suggested the Cuban Sandwich shop which was up the street. We then stopped at the post office so I could ship out Mom's gift. We then headed to Enterprise to pick up the rental car. Well, low and behold, as our bad luck would have it, we were almost to Enterprise when this woman in front of us hit her brakes and Rachael was going get in the left lane (6 lane highway) and pass around the woman. Rachael was checking the blind spot in the truck, to get over, and the woman in front of us hit her brakes harder than Rachael had judged. Just as I raised my voice and got "Rachael" out, we nailed the woman in the left read corner of her car. The truck stopped right where it was and knocked the woman's car about 10-15 feet in front of us. I called 911 and told them we had wrecked in front of Busch Gardens. The woman got out of her car and she had pissed her pants (sorta comical). She was in her mid 50's. She wasn't hurt and the damage to her car was light considering the damage to the truck. The front right corner of the truck was smashed in bad enough that you couldnt turn the steering wheel. It took about 45 mins to get a cop to show up on the scene. Then another cop showed up after that. They switched Rachael and the woman's info and gave Rachael a ticket for careless driving (unattentive to slowing traffic). They called a flatbed tow truck to bring the truck here to the house. Now, this morning's tow truck was very reasonably priced ($45 to tow about 10 miles away). The guy showed up to tow the truck home and it was, get this, $100 plus $4 per mile. We were only 4 miles from the house. It cost $29 a mile to tow that damn truck home. Rachael had Lisa come to the house so she could take her to Enterprise and still get the rental car. They were nice there at Enterprise and upgraded Rachael to a Dodge Nitro. It's a cute little crossover vehicle. So, now you know what I mean about....Talk about BAD LUCK.. Hope ya'll's week has been better than ours. But here is a cute picture of Rachael's pup Ben. He helps bring a smile to our faces for sure.