The Good News

Where do I start. Last Friday afternoon, I said to myself that I was going to have a nice relaxing day off.  I decided to go to the gym that morning. Normally, I'd go on Saturday but I will be attending a New Member Orientation at the church I attend. Before I even got to the gym I dropped my parking pass and it landed in the oddest of places. A crack between the stairs and the wall. Now, I'm freaking out because I've lost my parking pass before and there's a $15 fee for lost parking passes. Problem: I didn't have $15 to give them. I was on my way to talk to the parking attendant, when my spirit suggested I go back to the stairs. I go back to the stairs and I stand where I dropped the card. Then something said notice that the stairway is open underneath. Not something I'd normally pay attention to but I remembered seeing bikes parked up under there before. Maybe the card fell through the crack to the floor underneath the stairs. I run down the steps and what do you know? The stairway is open underneath. But I don't see my card. I noticed that I could see light from above through the small crack between the stairs and the wall. It was really dusty and I could see my card sitting on a pile of it. So I grabbed some flyers the gym had and tried to knock the card through the dust. Finally, the card fell to the floor. Whew!

So, after the gym I decided to stop by my job to pick up some things I'd left the previous Wednesday (I have Thursday's, Friday's and Saturday's off). So, I get to work, picked up the stuff I came for, dropped off some peanut butter cups I'd purchased that I really didn't need to be eating, joked around with some co-workers, and left. On my way back home I decided to stop off at the Tower store up the street from my apartment. I spent like 45 minutes in the store. I get back to my car and turned the key to start the ignition. Oddly the car had power but it sounded like it was out of gas. That's weird because I still had half a tank of gas left so that couldn't be the problem. I turned the car off and tried it again. Only this time the car started, made noises like it was out of gas and then cut off. I tried it again just to see if I could pump the gas pedal. But while I was trying that the car cut off again. So, at this point I'm figuring so much for my relaxing day. I'm basically stranded. I call my job to get one of my co-workers to come look at the car. I've been having issues with the starter, the "Brake" light had been on for a few weeks, the "Service" light comes on and the "Check Engine" light makes an appearance periodically so I figured it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. Problem is I don't know which problem it is. I'm hoping this doesn't turn out to be a big issue.