Mr Lube

We went to Mr Lube to get the oil changed in both cars because we had an $8 off coupon.  Barb handed the man the coupon before he started the oil change.  When he had finished, Barb looked at the bill and did not see the discount.  She asked the guy about the discount and he said he had forgotten about it.  Barb thought he was just trying to rip her off.

Leroy’s Warning

We had our first garage sale on Saturday.  Our neighbour Leroy told Barb that she would not be happy about the garage sale.

We sold a lot of stuff but Barb was furious when people bargained her down on the price of things.  She thought that she put a reasonable price on the things and they would offer only half the price.

She was particularly furious with the man who took our antique typewriter for $5 and a lady that took all of her craft stuff for $30.

By the end of the day, Barb’s blood pressure was through the roof.

Pumping and Pumping

Barb asked me to pump the air mattress because it was a manual one not an electric one.  I was upstairs in Julia’s room for a half hour pumping it with my foot.  Finally, Barb came up and asked me what I was doing.  She said that something was wrong.  It shouldn’t take that long to pump up the mattress.  In fact, it looked just as flat now after a half hour of pumping as it did when she laid it out of the floor.

Barb found a nozzle at the head of the bed that was open.  We found the stopper and plugged the nozzle.  Then I was able to pump up the mattress in a few minutes.

Canadian Tire

Barb decided we needed to show the house with four bedrooms.  So I took my desk out of Julia’s room.  Barb set up our air mattress but she needed to buy two more for the other rooms.  Barb was surprised when she went to Canadian Tire to find that Sarah’s good friend Sarah Woodend was there to sell her the air mattresses.

Bad Surprise

When I was leaving the Gil Read Tournament on Saturday night, I found that the back window on the Nissan had been smashed by a homerun.  The night before I noticed that a homerun had bounced between the cars in the parking lot about 40 yards on the other side of the fence.  I should have known that a ball could hit my car if I parked there.

I drove home without a back window.  I was stopped by a policeman.  I thought oh no I guess I am not supposed to be driving without a back window.  But the policeman had only stopped me because he thought the car might have been stolen.  After he checked and found that I owned the car he let me go.

I got home and my neighbour was just coming in.  He helped me cover the back window with a plastic bag because it was supposed to rain hard that night.

Barb checked around on Sunday and found a company that would come and replace the window right in our driveway.  It was covered by insurance and only cost us $140.  By Monday night, I was driving my car again to the ball game.

Junior Champions

I went to the Gil Read Tournament in Carp.  One of my favourite teams was playing there, the Elmira Expos.  I was talking to the coach of the team and told him that I was moving to New Hamburg.  He told me that New Hamburg were the Canadian Junior Fastball Champions.

New Cell Phone

I was in the habit of bringing the cell phone to my fastball games.  Unfortunately, I put it in my back pocket.  One day I sat on it and broke it.

So Barb looked on Kijiji to see if we could buy a new cell phone.  We found a guy who lived in Barrhaven who was selling a phone just like ours.  I went to his house to pick it up and pay for it.  He was selling about 5 cell phones.  So I bought two. One for me and one for Barb.  I brought them home and found out the one had the wrong power cord.  So I couldn’t charge it.

I went back to the guy’s house and he gave me the correct power cord.  And then I went home and charged the cell phone that I was going to use myself.

When it was charged, I found I couldn’t use it because I needed a password.  I contacted the guy again and he asked his daughter but she didn’t remember the password.  So I went back to the guy’s house and got my money back.

We were glad that he lived in Barrhaven.  It would have been ridiculous if I had to drive across town to get to his house so many times.