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Well i had a very long and event filled week last week but im too tired to write it so im stealing Scott's entry about it...heres what happend to us....
Scotty's LJ Entry
friday: waited for lydia to get to my apartment so we could get all set and head out to pick up andre and leave for the concert which was in west palm beach that night
lydia showed up, we put everything in my car then left to go get andre
the ride was fine for the most part, there was a breif period of time in which we were close to running out of gas, but thankfully a service station was close enough that we weren't stranded
about 40 miles after the almost out of gas incident the light for the transmission lights up on my dash
since i just had a gasket fixed on my transmission (which blew and caused fluid to leak out shutting down the trans.)
i figured it was the same problem again so i made a point to stop at the next service station to check and refill the transmission fluid
we make it to a rest stop and park just in time for the transmission to completely shut down
i check the fluid level and refill and watch as the fluid goes into the reservoir and straight through down to the pavement below
great, so at this point i figured either the gasket blew again or there's something wrong
we went to the service station at the rest stop and tried to find out if they could fix the problem
but.... they only do tires and oil, which doesn't really help me with a trans. problem
so then andre, lydia and i go on a search for a phone book and call around to see if there's anyplace it can be towed to
thankfully lydia had a free towing service so we were able to have a driver sent who we were told would be there in half an hour (at 3:00ish)
ok so now it's 4:30pm on a friday (just in time for all the dealerships and transmission shops to close! super!)
the tow truck still isn't at the rest station and we're still stranded with no way to get to the show that night
just a little before 5:00 the truck shows up and after some confusion and conversation we had the car towed to sunrise ford a good 17 miles away from the rest stop
they cant look at the car until monday... awesome (considering we had planned on going back sunday, oh well)
so then we got all of our stuff out of my car and sat on the curb to try and figure out what the heck we were going to do next
called some people, asked around, etc
finally i ran into a nice hispanic lady and her daughter walking their dog and the daughter was able to translate my plea for a ride to her mom
they were nice enough to take us all the way to the show since they were heading even further south than us
we got to the show, it was awesome
i'd never seen dmb live so it was a great experience
we had to put our luggage in jeremy's car while we were in the concert because we had nowhere else to put it
so after the concert we met up with jeremy and his dad and justin d. and picked up our stuff and then proceeded to wait for andre's frat bro to give us an hour long ride to ft. lauderdale where we had plans to spend the night at andre's parents place
the plans apparently not been told to andre's drunken stepfather and he vehemently disapproved of the idea of having lydia and i stay the night
so we got to crash on a couch in the lobby until 7 in the morning when we snuck up to the apartment and got to crash on a air mattress which andre's mother had set up for us (while the father passed out)
he woke up shortly thereafter and we got to enjoy the sounds of yelling angry spanish disapproving of us being there
we spent the day killing time at a country club type place until got a ride with andre's frat bro again back to the second night of the concert
noone had tickets so they had to scalp 2 at the gates which they managed to do and got to go into the show
lydia and i waited for our next ride (from her cousin) to take us to jupiter where we'd be able to stay at her uncle's place for a while
just as we were heading out to leave a golf kart drove up to where we were waiting to drop off the frat bro and drunken andre
we eventually managed to throw andre in the back of his friend's car and they sped off to ft. lauderdale
lydia and i got into jupiter later that night and bought some food and necessities for her uncle's empty house
we stayed there from saturday night to tuesday morning and played a good amout of card games (like 8 hours of gin in a row) and listed to the radio and basically did nothing trying to pass the time until my car would be fixed
on monday we found out that the entire transmission needed to be replaced (a nice $2800 bill) and the car would be fixed by wednesday
so we arranged to stay at jeremy's on tuesday, and he agreed to drop us off at sunrise ford to pick up my car on his way back to gville
after that everything seemed to go as planned and we made it back safely to gville to return to civilization (after our 5 day hiatus)
so thanks to everyone that helped me out, i would have been screwed without you
Scotty's LJ Entry
friday: waited for lydia to get to my apartment so we could get all set and head out to pick up andre and leave for the concert which was in west palm beach that night
lydia showed up, we put everything in my car then left to go get andre
the ride was fine for the most part, there was a breif period of time in which we were close to running out of gas, but thankfully a service station was close enough that we weren't stranded
about 40 miles after the almost out of gas incident the light for the transmission lights up on my dash
since i just had a gasket fixed on my transmission (which blew and caused fluid to leak out shutting down the trans.)
i figured it was the same problem again so i made a point to stop at the next service station to check and refill the transmission fluid
we make it to a rest stop and park just in time for the transmission to completely shut down
i check the fluid level and refill and watch as the fluid goes into the reservoir and straight through down to the pavement below
great, so at this point i figured either the gasket blew again or there's something wrong
we went to the service station at the rest stop and tried to find out if they could fix the problem
but.... they only do tires and oil, which doesn't really help me with a trans. problem
so then andre, lydia and i go on a search for a phone book and call around to see if there's anyplace it can be towed to
thankfully lydia had a free towing service so we were able to have a driver sent who we were told would be there in half an hour (at 3:00ish)
ok so now it's 4:30pm on a friday (just in time for all the dealerships and transmission shops to close! super!)
the tow truck still isn't at the rest station and we're still stranded with no way to get to the show that night
just a little before 5:00 the truck shows up and after some confusion and conversation we had the car towed to sunrise ford a good 17 miles away from the rest stop
they cant look at the car until monday... awesome (considering we had planned on going back sunday, oh well)
so then we got all of our stuff out of my car and sat on the curb to try and figure out what the heck we were going to do next
called some people, asked around, etc
finally i ran into a nice hispanic lady and her daughter walking their dog and the daughter was able to translate my plea for a ride to her mom
they were nice enough to take us all the way to the show since they were heading even further south than us
we got to the show, it was awesome
i'd never seen dmb live so it was a great experience
we had to put our luggage in jeremy's car while we were in the concert because we had nowhere else to put it
so after the concert we met up with jeremy and his dad and justin d. and picked up our stuff and then proceeded to wait for andre's frat bro to give us an hour long ride to ft. lauderdale where we had plans to spend the night at andre's parents place
the plans apparently not been told to andre's drunken stepfather and he vehemently disapproved of the idea of having lydia and i stay the night
so we got to crash on a couch in the lobby until 7 in the morning when we snuck up to the apartment and got to crash on a air mattress which andre's mother had set up for us (while the father passed out)
he woke up shortly thereafter and we got to enjoy the sounds of yelling angry spanish disapproving of us being there
we spent the day killing time at a country club type place until got a ride with andre's frat bro again back to the second night of the concert
noone had tickets so they had to scalp 2 at the gates which they managed to do and got to go into the show
lydia and i waited for our next ride (from her cousin) to take us to jupiter where we'd be able to stay at her uncle's place for a while
just as we were heading out to leave a golf kart drove up to where we were waiting to drop off the frat bro and drunken andre
we eventually managed to throw andre in the back of his friend's car and they sped off to ft. lauderdale
lydia and i got into jupiter later that night and bought some food and necessities for her uncle's empty house
we stayed there from saturday night to tuesday morning and played a good amout of card games (like 8 hours of gin in a row) and listed to the radio and basically did nothing trying to pass the time until my car would be fixed
on monday we found out that the entire transmission needed to be replaced (a nice $2800 bill) and the car would be fixed by wednesday
so we arranged to stay at jeremy's on tuesday, and he agreed to drop us off at sunrise ford to pick up my car on his way back to gville
after that everything seemed to go as planned and we made it back safely to gville to return to civilization (after our 5 day hiatus)
so thanks to everyone that helped me out, i would have been screwed without you