Pick up the Truck, Pat

The car got fixed on Wednesday. It the light on the dash that said that it needed service soon was actually indicating a hose was not connected to the crankcase. After the multipoint inspection, the hose was connected and it only cost me 145 dollars. Great. I freal that if I can get out of the place for under 500 dollars I am doing well.

To pick up this car was something else. We live 3 miles from the dealer. Linzi has our other car in Sacramento. So I needed to shelp down there to get the truck before they closed at 5:30. The pick car for this dealer went to voice mail so I decided instead of relying on that that I would walk to the mall and get a bus. Temp was about 103 and it was the afternoon. The mall is one mile away so I walked over. Just as I arrived the buses arrived in mass and took off in mass. They would return about an hour later. The bus costs 1 dollar. Most of the bus riders were my old students. I made another mistake as the bus first went to wallMart, then through the back strreets of Merced, I should have pulled to stop cord as it crossed R street. I didn't the bus took me away from where I wanted to go so finally when I arrived downtown, the lady in front of me pulled the stop. At 5:05 the 15 blocks in the heat looked like picking up the truck might not be in the cards. I made it at 5:31 and they had one door open. My service advisor was still there. Everyting turned out okay.