The Trouble With Trouble
Last night, or rather this morning, I was sleeping the sleep of the dead, happily snoring the night, or morning, away. My cell phone rang around 4:30am, I hope I wasn't in the middle of a good sex dream.
It was Trouble. Trouble was in... well... trouble. It seems she got herself landed in jail via a DUI. She tried calling her recently ex'd boyfriend, he didn't answer. She tried calling her ex-husband, no answer there either. For some crazy reason, my cell# was the only other one she remembered. She needed someone to come get her keys to go into her house and get some money she had stashed. She was going to pay the bondsman herself.
I'm a nice guy. I can't help it. Some folks are born assholes, some aren't. I fall into the latter category.
I threw some clothes on and went to the jail, got her keys, then set out to her house. My home is 20 miles from where she was being held, her house another 15 or so beyond that. So I made it to her home, got in, got her stash of cash, stopped by her car (about a mile from her home) to pick up her cigarettes and cell phone, then headed to the bail bondsman's office. After about 30 minutes of him filling out paperwork, he left to go get her. OSP took their damned sweet time letting her out, so by the time she and the bondsman got back to the office it was after 6am.
We stopped by McDonald's for breakfast, then headed back to the farm so I could get cleaned up before I had to be at work (she called in "sick"). At the house she promptly passed out on the sofa while I was showering. After I got dressed I tried to wake her enough to get her into a bed (that sofa is notorious for "cricks" in the neck). This failing, I picked her up and carried her to my room. After dropping her on my bed, I came to work.
I gave her much crap during all of this, I also told her that she owed me sex for coming to get her. I think the "crap" sunk it a bit, but the owing of sex didn't. Just my luck =P
During lunch I had a friend help me move her car from the CITGO station to her home. She called not long ago and is having a friend come pick her up from my house, bring her by here to get her keys, then take her home.
I can't wait to get home and get some damned sleep.