It’s been a while…I’ve been wrestling with a new medication that’s been added to my daily pile…and while I’m not catching up to my friend Heidi (34 and counting) I’m having 10 PD meds and a PD patch daily plus 2 vit D, 2 vit C, 2 vit B and Powdered Magnesium. I’m beginning to rattle!
I was trying to think of something interesting to write … and failing ….when I hooked in to a running post on Facebook written by my son Josh. Seems he was having a bit of car trouble (again). The comments from him and his friends made me laugh and I realised that I was feeling a lot better. I had forgotten my golden rules for a few days… POSITIVE, MOTIVATED, HAPPY. I had been concentrating on the bad side effects I was experiencing and forgetting to do my Gratitude Journal and positive things at night. So…this post is a bit different from my usual posts about living with PD. I’ve condensed Josh’s post to the most relevant things and summarised where necessary….so you don’t fall asleep! I thought it might make you smile and have a laugh at the silly predicaments we (and our kids) get into. And anything that makes you smile can only be a good addition to the day.
Read and enjoy: NOTE: names have been disguised to protect the innocent…except Josh because he’s not! 🙂
POST:
Ahhh… Little Red. Pulled her into the servo to fill up. Guy behind me honked because I was blocking the front lane, but I was blocking it because I needed the Premium Fuel pump. Meanwhile, the Bentley to the side of me has a flat and is stuck blocking the other lane. I fill up, stride into the petrol station, realise my wallet is back at the office. Call Raf to get credit card details over the phone. It’s the petrol station attendant’s first day, she’s freaking out. We sort that out over the phone, I walk out, jump in the car, Battery is dead. Thankfully I have a starter in the car that requires a wall socket. It’s the attendant’s first day so she doesn’t know where the external sockets are. I go hunting in the dark. Meanwhile nobody can get to any pumps and people are cranky. The Bentley people are asking every car if they have a Bentley-sized wheel jack. Surprisingly, nobody does. I dig around for the tools to remove the battery and find $2, which pays for a bag of Cheezels to eat while I sit across the bay, getting honked at and waiting for my battery to slowly charge from the wall socket next to the Eskimo Nell ice machine. Life is good
Comments:
Josh: C.B (Tagging the person who initially gave him said ‘Little Red’…. A Maxwell Smart type car that is still, after all those years, a work in progress)
But I digress (as usual) so back to the story…..
Josh: P.S. still sitting here. Attendant is having absolute kittens with all these strange broken down cars in her bays and has locked the main doors.
Josh: * sends photo of car joined to wall plug via an extension chord.* ( But I can’t copy the picture here for some reason!)
C.B is amused by photo of car joined to wall plug via long chord
Josh: Phone’s at 4%
C.B reminds him he has a charger….forgetting that it’s Josh – who never has his charger.
Josh: Dad of Bentley family has wandered off ‘to buy pizza’.
###Various people express concern at his predicament …..Wife chips in with unhelpful suggestion to share cost of pizza…this is Josh who never as any money on him.###
M.B: Solution1. Push car out of way. Solution 2. Fill up other cars from plastic fuel containers in shop. Solution 3. Fill up inside of car with fuel. Ignite.
Solution 4. Film said scene, post on you tube, make money, call tow truck.
Solution 5. Sell car to guy behind for massive amounts of money so he can carry out solution 1 or 3. .Solution 6. Run away…
E,L: OMG how does it end ???
###Here, Josh’s Wife sends message to friend who lives nearby to perhaps take drink and food to poor Josh while he waits for the battery to charge. Friend declines offer as she is busy watching Project Runway.
Concerned Aunty sends many Laughing faces, but soften the laughter with comment: Poor Josh###
C.B wants: Pictures or the Bentley didn’t happen….
Josh: I COULDN’T TAKE PICTURES OF THE BENTLEY BECAUSE MY PHONE’S RUNNING OUT OF CHARGE.
###Mother – in – law expresses concern.
Aunty gives Solution 8. You should have brought a FORD ”
Aunty and cousin engage in a side argument over which is better….Holden or Ford.###
Josh: UPDATE: Phone ran out of charge shortly after last update. I pushed the car around the corner closer to the battery, which meant I was now in the dark. Didn’t stop a whole bunch of randoms come around and chat to me about my ‘cute little car’ and what was I doing there. I got sick of pointing at the battery plugged into the wall and instead propped the bonnet up so people could see I was broken don. Which then led to a bunch of people giving me old car advice,
Josh: UPDATE 2: Went into station and got the attendant to give me Phone to call Raf so that she could call RAC. 90 minute wait. Sat back in cold car and waited for battery.
Josh: UPDATE 3: Bowser refuel tanker pulls up. Guy watches me sitting near the trailers suspiciously and walks into station. Attendant later tells me that he accused me of trying to steal her trailers.
Josh: UPDATE 4: Bentley people push their car around the opposite corner and get friends to arrive and help them. Now it’s just me and my flat Phone. I left my laptop at work so literally have no light. Read a book that I found in the bottom of the car. MERCIFULLY FIND $2 ON FLOOR OF CAR and walk back into the station to buy an Oak Malt. Scare the shit out of attendant who thought I left hours ago. Ask her if she has an iPhone charger. She spends 5 minutes trying to plug an obviously Samsung charger into my phone.
Josh: UPDATE 5: After two previous failed attempts, I wire battery back up and give her a crank. SHE STARTS, slowly and choking but we’re rocking. Alternator isn’t charging so I have headlights but no indicators. I call success. Leave car running, pull keys out (car runs without keys) and un into petrol station to use their phone to call Raf to cancel RAC. Attendant tells me that I’m lucky because she had already shut down the till and was about to switch everything off as the place was shutting down. I would’ve been left in the pitch black with no external power to charge my battery. God is good.
Josh: UPDATE 6: Got home safe and sound about 5 minutes ago. Battery will go on drip charge. Bed feels warm.
###Various unhelpful comments from well meaning friends ensue…. Capped off by a comment from grandmother “You’re a Dag Josh”###
And that comment from Nanna just about sums up my son!
Well, I’m off to do my bike riding thingy….something else that I’ve been neglecting for the past couple of days…. remember …..POSITIVE…MOTIVATED…HAPPY!
BU
BobbleHead Nanna 