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Dec. 22nd, 2024 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chase_acow
Happy Saturnalia! Io!
My car battery went kaput. It acted funny last night so I took it in and Autozone confirmed it was bad, but also that they wouldn't replace it because part of the air filter goes over the battery and they weren't allowed to pull it out. This morning it was totally dead, and being my day off, I called into work to see if they'd send someone over to jump me. Running again, I drove across town to double check if O'Reilly would give me the same answer.
The woman took a gander under the hood before I turned it off and agreed that she shouldn't mess with it. Then she told me she turned in her notice that morning and was all out of fucks so why not? She pops the air filter out, manages to spark the battery so that she drops the socket wrench in such a way that it can not be found with the magic magnetic thingamajig.
So she scolds her coworker, a younger, hip dude in a peacoat out to see if he can find it. He has to return with a crawler to slide underneath my car - a Kia Sorento - which in no way has enough clearance, but he manages to swing his arm around enough to get the wrench out. He then almost immediately loses a socket to the car trying to get the battery out, and we have to call that one cuz there was no finding it.
Pop the new battery in, and wow, the connection on the positive side is loose enough to slide a half dozen fanfic tropes through there. We troop back inside and a short king with a scraggly beard materializes and hands hip!dude an orange plastic hammer and gestures for eye-to-eye contact and says very clearly "do not break shit" and then pats him on the butt and jerks his head toward the door.
I declined to watch whatever off-the-book maintenance was about to occur and stay in the store where it is warm and got treated to a long airing of grievances by the short-time lady. It's normal work drama, but at least it's not my work drama. Hip!dude comes back inside holding the air filter piece and looking so confused. *
Five minutes later, I've ordered them a pizza as a thanks/a sorry and I am praying to the spaghetti monster as I pull out on the highway that I never have to return.
I went to Take 5 Oil Change where I had to wait for two hours NOT ten minutes, but I got new oil, new coolant, and new air in the tires.
Then I went home to take a nap, having already cancelled my plans to drive 3hrs for a holiday visit at my dad's. Maybe I'll get out there after the new year.
*This is where I got interrupted yesterday by my poor rashy cat finally coming back to my chair for some comfort cuddles. I know he can't feel good, and I'm trying my best to fix it. We're using a spray right now, but I have a shampoo coming in a couple of days which I'm sure he'll hate and will strain our bond, but we got to nip this in the bud.
Also, because I procrastinated posting this from yesterday, you can have Hozier doing Fairytale of New York!
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Date: 2024-12-22 08:05 pm (UTC)many thanks for sharing Hozier's cover of Fairytale of New York - I like this version
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Date: 2024-12-23 04:57 am (UTC)I mean, we can never go wrong with Hozier, and I love so many versions of Fairytale.
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Date: 2024-12-23 03:45 pm (UTC)Your poor cat, though. I hope the shampoo works.