Dress Down Friday

We had heard of dress down Friday but we were surprised to see our lawyer dressed in a grubby tee shirt and grubby jeans when we went to close the deal on our new house.

570 Talk Radio

Sarah told us that since she has been spending her whole summer driving around to construction sites in her car she has started listening to 570 Talk Radio from Kitchener.

We were surprised to find the studio for 570 Talk Radio right beside our lawyer in Kitchener where we went to close the deal on our new house.

Nice Water Bottle

I had purchased water at Heathrow airport when I was there with Sarah.  The water came in a nice plastic bottle.  I brought refilled the bottle and brought it to all of my ballgames. 

One night I left it at the ball diamond and was half way home before I remembered.  I drove all the way back to the diamond and found it in the dark on the bench.

I had the bottle for a few more weeks.  Then on our drive to Kitchener for the August long weekend our air conditioner stopped working.  So we stopped at a Canadian Tire in Kingston to get it fixed. 

They couldn’t find anything wrong with the air conditioner.  I guess the fan had overheated and it had cooled down while we were waiting for a repair man to look at it.  After it had cooled down, it worked fine again.

Not only had we wasted $90 on the non-repair, I left the bottle in the Canadian Tire.

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.