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Posted Oct 22 2008 4:25pm

When it rains,it pours!  I had gone to Safeway to procure lettuce and chicken and burger meat and a few diet cokes...sat in the car for a while talking to the sponsor.  Key in ignition.  No dice.  Try key again.  No action.  OH NO!  DANGER WILL ROBINSON--DANGER! 

Surprisingly I stayed calm without Klonopin.   Called the roadside assistance.  Waited.  Went into Safeway to use the potty.  Called the Honda service people and said I was comin in.  They had a shuttle which could take me home.  I started freaking inside.  I wasn't freaking about the money, the stress, the car...I was freaking because how was I gonna get my diet coke and latte tomorrow and oh my god I think I'm running out of cigs.  

Back into Safeway.  Whew!  Stock up on diet coke and buy some cigs.  Ok, I'm good now. 

Then a funny thing happened as my chicken and lettuce were nearing the point of needing refrigeration badly:   this dude on a motorcycle rides up and says, "Ma'am did you need a jump?.   I said are the jumper guy?  He said, ya.  I'm curious--where's your truck?  He said he does it with his bike.  Ok, whatever...and he pulled out this little contraption and jumped my decrepid car battery and off I went."

Straight to the drive thru to get my last diet coke. 

MY routine everyday is to go to Starbucks - get latte.  Go to Burger King -- get diet coke.  Go to Jack in the Box -- get diet coke.   Those are my staples.  Those are my "must-do's".  So, being with out a vehicle is a strange trip indeed. 

By the way, three numbers:   3 7 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\

Oh ya, the car bill is 2200 smackers!  

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