Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Another Man's Woes....
So I’m sitting here, minding my own business, curled up in my new pajamas, (for those who inquired, that is what I bought myself off E-Bay. I had recently torn a nice rip in the side of my old ones and really needed new ones).
Anyway, I’m sitting here, all comfy, enjoying the storms outside, heavy rains, thunder rolling menacingly, lightning flashing and cracking at various intervals and reading more new to me blogs. Meanwhile my brother and his friend were in the dining room playing chess as they do quite frequently.
Now the rain was coming down pretty hard and the few times I snuck glances out my bedroom window, I wondered if the street was going to flood again but the drains seemed to be taking the water level well. My brother and his friend ended their chess battle and the friend goes to leave. I went outside to get a breath of fresh air and enjoy the cloudy skies now that the storm had pretty much passed. The friend was sitting in his car for a bit longer than necessary and I started to wonder if maybe his car had died.
Eventually I went back in and not 10 seconds later, the friend was back at the door. Indeed, his car wouldn’t start. By that time I was back in my room and reading blogs again when I heard a knock on my door. My brother was asking me to help steer the friend’s car into the garage. So I got my shoes on and went outside.
Oh yah. The friend owns a Porsche. Now, make no doubts about this, I do feel bad for the guy as he was rather distraught by the whole thing but at the same time, I was filled with a tiny bit of glee that I got to sit inside a Porsche and do the “driving”. I don’t care if it’s “dry” driving, I still got to sit in a Porsche and pretend I was driving.
It was a fabulous two minutes. I’ve never even been in a Porsche, let alone asked to steer one so you’ll have to excuse me if I enjoyed that.
Anyway, car is in the garage all safe and snug until the tow truck driver comes to get it tomorrow. Not sure what happened really. The engine well was completely dry so the hypothesis that maybe it got flooded in the heavy rains was out. The friend thinks it might have something to do with the new alarm system he just had installed. He had left the windows open a crack but something triggered them to open farther and the inside did get pretty wet so who knows. It was raining awfully hard.
Again, I felt sorry for him, (and don’t start in on the, “oh right, the poor Porsche owner”, because this is really, really nice person), but it’s interesting. You can be sitting there, all relaxed and ready for sleep, doing some light reading all in your pj’s when you get the opportunity to sit behind the wheel of a car that you will probably never own and steer it around.
And now, I will go to sleep with a smile on my face at my once in a lifetime opportunity even though it unfortunately had to come at the expense of another person’s luck. That’s the only reason my smile won’t be that big.
