Killing time

I am sitting in my car outside of a hotel borrowing their Internet access so I can check my e-mail, surf the web and chat with my friends while I wait on Katy. Katy is at Sams Club waiting on her car to get out of the tire bay. Her car has been there since 2 pm for ONE TIRE and it is now 7:24 pm. Go figure. I had the car turned off and the windows opened but that was an open invitation for the blood sucking misquotos to come relieve me of much needed plasma so I killed as many of them as I could while I rolled up the windows and restarted the car. Oh yeah, back to the comedy of errors on the Ford Escort Station wagon today. We are over there buying some things that we needed for home, school etc and I thought, hey Katy needs a couple of tires lets kill two birds with one stone. So, in the shop it goes. They tell us it will take them 2 hours to get it done and I am thinking that is just fine, we can come get it this evening before they close. 2.5 hours later they call and leave a message on the cell phone that they can not work on the car because it is missing ONE LUG NUT. I am having flash backs from last year when I went through the same experience with the cadillac. We are sorry, BUT since there is ONE lug nut missing we are not going to touch your car. You must bring a lug nut to us before we will put the tire on your car that you already PURCHASED.
So, what should have taken 90 minutes to complete has taken us 25% of our day. At 6 pm we arrive back at Sams Club to take the car back into our possession to find out that the front left tire has not been looked at. It probably has a nail in it which is causing it to lose air. I told them that at 2pm but guess what, no one bothered to write that down on the paperwork. I asked them if they checked air pressure on all the tires while they are installing the new one and they assured me that they did. NOT... So, the moral to this story is simple. If you want your tires changed, rotated or generally gazed upon be SURE to take off all the hubcaps and do a visual inventory of the lug nuts. If one is missing go to the local auto parts store FIRST , buy the proper lug nuts and then go to Sams Club. NOT. I vote we just skip Sams alltogether because it is not worth the hassle you go through for the TINY savings you might get going to them to begin with. Good grief folks, do you think they care they are inconveniencing the living tar out of people making them drive all over the city looking for lugnuts? The answer to this is no, they do not care. Luckily for me gasoline is below 4.00 per gallon still and it is no big deal for me to drive to the other side of town for a 68 cent lug nut. Right??
The torrential down pour seems to have abated for the moment. The forecast is for the Charleston area to have run up until next Friday or Saturday. Supposedly there is a cold front that is headed this way that is going to collide with tropical moisture coming up from the gulf and that will cause lots of thunderstorms, possible tornados and lots of liquid falling out of the sky. Whoooo hoooo, I cant wait. They say swimming is good exercise. LOL....
My security gig at Bi-Lo last night on Remount Road was relatively uneventful. All the crazies seemed to keep their craziness under wraps and I did not have to toss anyone out of the store and no one tried to steal any beer or wine that I could tell. Talk about fruits and nuts folks they were alive and well last night.
Well, it is time to buy tickets for Into the Blue and hopefully Katy will be calling me shortly to let me know she is on the way. Honey? Are you ALMOST done dear? Are the tires still round and was the hole in one of them plugged ok? LOL...


James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.myblogsite.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net