I had a ball game on Monday.
So I took the Honda and I dropped Barb off at the garage in the morning
to wait for the Nissan to be repaired.
Barb waited at the garage all day.
Then near the end of the day (she was starving because she had nothing
to eat all day), they finally gave her the car.
She started to drive home and the car stalled again on the highway at a
stoplight. Barb couldn't start it. So
some guys in a truck helped her push it off the highway into the Sam's Club
parking lot. Then she got a ride back to
the garage to tell them the car wasn't fixed.
From there she phoned home for a ride but I had come home from softball
and then gone out again to get the printer cable at the Goodwill. She left a message on the machine and when I
got home I never looked at the answering machine but Barb came home soon after
I got home. She got a ride home from
some man at the garage who was going our way.
I had the printer cable but the printer was in the backseat of the
Nissan in the Sam's parking lot.
Saturday, 15 April 2017
Banker's Cheque
We were in negotiations to sell our house in Avon Park
for a week or so. The couple that wanted
to buy it were really desperate to get it but they didn't want to pay real
estate fees. They wanted to do something
under the table and they wanted to pay us in Canadian dollars. Of course, we couldn't get out of our real
estate contract and we didn't want to fool around with Canadian-US exchange
rates. Eventually, we reached a deal but
we were not happy because we would lose about $13,000 US from what we bought it
for. So Barb went to the house and took
everything she could find that was good from the house rather than leave it for
them. We met with our real estate agents
and they were not happy about the couple trying to work around them by phoning
us and them directly and not going through their own real estate agent but we
signed the deed over and gave them the keys and took their banker's check. On the way home from Avon Park,
we deposited the banker's cheque in the Bank of America ATM. The ATM slip told us that the cheque would be
put on hold. We thought this was crazy
because it was a banker's cheque that was supposed to be like real money. We almost didn't have enough money in the
account to pay the $3000 real estate fee.
Somehow we squeaked through and after a few days we got some of the
money and then a few days after that we got the rest of the money. Barb was very relieved to have the headache of
a second property off her mind and we no longer have to pay land rent and all
the other expenses we were paying with the vacant house.
Where's Waldo
Barb and her women's partner won bronze and Barb and her
mixed partner won bronze in the Okeechobee tournament. I always tried to find shade to sit to watch
the games. I was often sitting in the
trees or behind the wind screen and Barb could only see my shoes. So Barb said that finding where I was sitting
during her games was like a game of Where's Waldo.
Free Tee Shirt
I went to Barb's pickleball tournament that weekend and met
all of Barb's pickelball friends. One of
Barb's friends has a pickleball accessory business and she made me a free
pickleball tee shirt to wear. Later Barb
wondered if she was really a friend because she and her partner beat Barb and
her partner by hitting lobs which Barb hates.
Barb and her partner got the bronze medal.
Damn Nissan
After softball today, I decided to drive to the Goodwill to
buy a cable for the used HP LaserJet printer that Barb bought me there. I was just turning onto the highway and the battery
light came on and the car stalled. I got
out the car and tried to push the car
out of the way of traffic and signaled the other cars in the turning lane to
drive around the stalled Nissan. Then I
started walking to the gas station to call a tow truck. A couple stopped and asked if I needed help
to push the car off the road. He was a
big black guy and he and I pushed the car partially up the curb. I said it should be okay there. Then the
couple went back to their car and as they were getting in their car a van
pulled over and started handing him money out of the window. I never thought to give him money for helping
me.
I started walking to the gas station and a couple of girls
stopped and asked if I needed a ride because it was a little bit of a walk to
the gas station. So I got in their car
and they drove me to the gas station where I used their phone because I don't
have a cell phone. I also had to use
their phone book which the lady had to blow the dust off because who uses a
phone book these days. I phoned a tow
truck company that I thought was close and after being put on hold for a long
time, the lady on phone told me that they couldn't get me a tow truck until
tomorrow. So I phoned another tow truck
company and after a long time on hold, the lady said that she couldn't get a
tow truck for an hour. I said okay and
that I would wait beside my car.
I walked back to my car and got there just in time for a
police car to drive up. The police man
got out and told me I needed to push the car right off the road. He and I pushed the car up over the curb and
onto the grass beside the highway.
Another policeman stopped and he was impressed that we could push the
car over the curb by ourselves. The
policeman asked me if he should phone a tow truck for me and I said no one was
coming. So they drove away.
Then later, a Villages Security truck stopped and asked me
if I needed any help. I told him that I
had called a tow truck and that I was planning to get them to tow the car to a
Von's garage on Highway 446A and asked him how to get to 446A. He explained how far it was. Then I said that Von's garage was near the Lady Lake
library and he said that was on Highway 446.
The same highway I was already on and not the 446A. It was good that he stopped because I would
have never found the garage by myself.
He phoned in that my car was stalled but off the highway and there was
no traffic jam and drove away.
Later as I was waiting, someone else stopped and asked me, out
their car window, if I needed help and I said no I had called a tow truck and
was just waiting for it to come.
I waited an hour exactly and the tow truck came. It was there just in time because Von's
garage was closing at 5 pm and they lock the gate. So you can't just drop the car off
there. We got to the garage just in time
but unfortunately, it was Thursday night and they are closed on Fridays. So they would not be able to look at it until
Monday morning.
Driving for Nothing
Today I drove to Open Softball Batting Practice and when I
got there I found out it had been cancelled because of the rain last
night. So I drove home. Then in the evening I drove to the Apple
iClub meeting for 6:30 but when I got there I could not find any parking
spot. So I turned around and went
home. All that driving for nothing.
The Forum Begins
Barb joined the Pickleball Forum on Facebook. The founder, named Aspen, started a fun game to get the members
to think up Pickleball Movie Names. Barb
quickly looked up movies on Google and started making name variations on famous
movies. Her best ones, of many, were
When Volley Met Rally, The Dink Panther and The Year of Lobbing Dinkerously. She was up until 3 am playing on the Forum.
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