When is Obama going to fix all my problems? If he could just invest some money into a social program that would help people with constant car problems to just travel telepathically. That would fix a lot of my problems.
I hope I have all of the receipts for all of the car fix ups I have over the past couple of years, because I intend to call Guinness World Records... I think I have that category locked.
The start of my car trip to Vegas was going exceedingly well. We seemed to be going at record pace; stopping only when needing to fill-up and once for food. Dino ( another WSOP dealer and friend ) did a lot of the driving, through his request. We had drinks and snacks in the car and an iPod with good tunes. In comparison to other road trips, this one seemed to be nearly perfect...
We reach New Mexico and things at first got even better, the view on the road was surreal and I started to monitor Garmin for a countdown to Vegas, as we were only 8 hours away. But as is my luck, the car suddenly decided it would finally die on me. I swear, at times I believe the car has a mind of it's own and likes to torture me for fun... I can just hear the car saying to himself " This interstate driving is really hard work and look at Joao over there all relaxed, I won't have it!"
Thankfully, I purchased AAA Roadside the day before we left. We had the car towed to Albuquerque; but since it was after hours at this point we had to spend the night and wait to hear what was wrong the following day. The next day we wait on a diagnostic for four hours only to hear that they could do nothing, and the car needed to be looked at from the Cadillac dealership in town which would only open on Monday ( it was Saturday afternoon ). At this moment I panicked, I just was to sure what options we had... I had to be in Vegas by Tuesday at the latest to complete my hiring process and I needed a car to get there. Dino and I decided on renting a vehicle, despite our severe lack of funds, and come back to New Mexico to pick up the car once it was taken care of.
Once, we got the rental nothing was going to stop me, I didn't care if I had to walk there, I just wanted to get there! 8 hours later we get into town pick up Shannon ( another WSOP dealer ) from the airport headed home and relaxed.
Today I intend on getting myself a haircut, purchase some things I am missing around here ( yay to spending more money ), and at night I am going to take Shannon and Dino out on the town as they have never been here. Since, money is a factor right now we may just walk the strip and eventually pick a sports book to watch some baseball and get our drink on.
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