Not Sure You’ll Believe This One
Posted by Andrew Pilsch on Saturday, January 6th, 2007, at 11:26 pm, and tagged as .
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I may have, in the past, told you that I have cosmic luck. When things are good, I’m unstoppable. Of course, the price is that when things are bad, they tend to compound quickly. Today, I woke up after four hours of sleep or so and got ready to drive to Tennessee to visit my grandparents, as a first leg to the trip to State College, tomorrow. Well, as we are getting lunch ready, my dad says “you know you have a flat tire?” Shit. He takes my car to get it fixed, while I finish up Atlanta business. The people at the tire store can’t find anything wrong, suggesting that the people at Walmart may have bilked me when it comes to doing all the work I paid them to do. Nonetheless, the tire gets inflated and I get on the road about an hour late.
It takes about four hours to get to Johnson City from Atlanta. Keeping this in mind, about hour three I think “I can’t wait to wear my new jacket out.” Then I remember: my jacket is in my closet, along with all of my other clothes and my two winter coats. I call my parents and they agree to meet me in Clayton, GA to exchange clothes. It’s about 3 hours round trip from where I am at this point, so I’m off.
On the way down a mountain, I have the car in neutral and am coasting down the mountain. What do I see, you ask? Well, I had just thought, “I should probably slow down a bit,” when a State Trooper pulls up behind with her lights on. That’s right. I get a ticket. Right before I saw her, I thought the speedometer said 67, but she claims I was going 74 in a 55 zone, which, in North Carolina, means that I have to appear in court, IN FRANKLIN NORTH CAROLINA, on the 2nd of February or I lose my license. Thankfully, the State Trooper, who can see that I’m flustered and is perhaps charmed by the fact that I haven’t laid out my life story, tells me that I can send someone else in February. So, hopefully, that’s an 18 hour trip I won’t have to make.
Anyway, I finally got to my grandparents’ house around 9:30, after 7 hours on the road and a speeding ticket. Hopefully a cluster of good luck is just around the corner.
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