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Last night after work, supper and a rehearsal for my father-in-law's choir, I stopped by a gas station on the way home to fill up. When I came back from paying, and went to start my wife's '97 Cavalier, there was just a rapid-fire clicking sound from under the hood. Yes, the starter died at the pumps. I called Alberta Motor Association (my former employer, btw) and there was more than an hour's backlog due to the winter weather and the resulting batch of accidents on the highways out our way last night. So I stood, and waited, in the Husky station. What a boring place to be stuck, although at least I was warm.
About 45 minutes later, a tow truck pulls up. I walk outside to say hi, and the guy says hi but keeps walking by - but turns around and asks "Do you need help?" I told him I had called AMA, and he said "OK sure, no problem, I can help, just let me run inside for my smokes." He did, he came back out, radioed in to his dispatch, and came to see me. "Yup, not a problem, I'll hook you up right now."
And so he towed me away from the gas station. It was about 9:30 p.m. by this point but I was just happy to be on my way and have the car hauled off.
"Hey, you lucked out, your wait in the cue would have been a lot longer," said the tow truck driver, who was from Nova Scotia and new to the Spruce Grove area. "Good thing I needed these." He pointed to the two packs of Peter Jackson cigarettes in his bag.
"See, it's all thanks to smoking."
He was right. Weird.
Anyway, that ate up a good chunk of my evening last night. Not much writing my novel, just a bemused shrug between me and my wife: let's see, sink - check. Dryer - check. Camera flash - check. Christmas LED lights - check. Car - check. Yup, all the things that we were really hoping would die and cost us money this month have pretty much died. Now if only the furnace, the TV and my iPod would die too - I mean why stop the fun now? :-)
Getting back to the novel, on the bus this morning I passed the magic milestone of 25,000 words, the halfway mark. I have less than half of the book left to write. Cool!
