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Friday, May 7, 2010

Car Hoopla

So Eric got a new car and everything was great until two days ago. We went to Target, came back out and it wouldn't start. It got power, but wouldn't turn over. Great. Eric thought maybe it Vapor Locked which isn't really something we can fix, it just happens with heat/humidity. He tries 5 or 6 more times and it doesn't start. We sit there for 5 minutes and he tries again and all of a sudden it started. Great, maybe it just needed to cool down.

We get home and he turns it off and tries to turn it on and once again, nothing. He text one of his friends and told him what was going on and he came over the next day (yesterday) and had no idea what was wrong with it. Eric then thought maybe it was the spark plugs so off to Auto Zone we go. This morning he's taking them off and putting the new ones on when he gets to the last one and the old one breaks off. Um.. it's not suppose to do that. He then looks around and starts to notice a bunch of hardware that is missing and a lot of bolts that are stripped from over tightening and a lot of the stuff that is suppose to be done in the service inspection at the dealership wasn't.

By this time he's just mad that after 5 days of having this car it doesn't start and the previous owner took a bunch of shortcuts and the dealership didn't do what they were suppose to. He called them a little bit ago and told them to come and get it. He's now waiting for the manager to call him back to see what is going to happen.

Now we get to start the car looking processes over again. Lovely.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Definitely not a good teller

I suck at it... That's an under-statement. I get so nervous with a lot of cash that I mess up and boy did I mess up today. I don't even know where I messed up, but I did. I was short $988.18. I know I didn't just hand someone $988.18 so it had to have been a button or something I did wrong... or multiple things. I count the money 2 or 3 times depending on the amount so I'm just confused. I keep going through the customers in my head to see if I can think of the one or ones I messed up on.

Before I did my end of the day balancing to find out I was short almost 1k I got yelled at by a customer. I'm assuming he's from a country where women aren't equal to men because he was a complete asshole. So much, my manager had to step in. I got so pissed I was shaking. Twit. Go back to your effing country.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Just an update

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog. I've been at my job for almost three weeks and today I start by myself today. Scary stuff. Eric has weekend duty this week as well (he had it last week too).

Last weekend we were on the freeway and something blew in the car. It almost sounded like we ran over something and a tire blew out, but then all of a sudden our Passat sounds like a turbo diesel, except has no horsepower. We get off the freeway and we are in the middle of the ghetto. We putt our way to Carmax to find out they're closed. Get a ride to the Airport to rent a car from the Enterprise (the only one open in the whole city) since that is what Carmax told us to do. We get there only to find out they won't rent us a car because we don't have a credit card. Whaaaaa?! We are now stuck at the airport. I call Brittany (another military spouse I met out here) and her and her husband come to our rescue to drop me off at the house and Eric off at work. By this time it's 5 (Eric had to be in at 1645). He made it just in time. He didn't get out until 0100 and walked home. He finally got home at 0230 and passed out. His direct supervisor for the weekend said she would take the Sunday morning shift since it was at 0500. He gets a text at 0830 saying he needs to come in ASAP because it's his weekend duty and it doesn't matter if he needs to take a cab. I text Brittany and they come to our rescue once again.
[That stupid Sgt just didn't want to be there anymore because she partied too hard the night before. She wasn't even in uniform when Eric showed up.]
They chauffeured us around for the next day and finally Monday night we got the car back after getting it towed to a muffler shop.

We also got approved for a car loan through a credit union so now it's just trying to find a car within our budget that Eric likes (which is harder than getting the damn loan).

Other than that nothing too much going on. I'll try to update more often.
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