On Wednesday the 21st I’m on the couch resting. I had left work early that afternoon to try and sleep of this terrible head cold I had come down with. I was on the phone chatting with my boyfriend Jacob about a car issue that has just arisen. Apparently he brought his car into the shop to have them look at a leak, turns out his left axel was all messed up. There was a part available that they could overnight. The part was still in another car so Thursday they were to take it out and ship it. I had a scheduled flight for Friday, Sept. 23rd to flight from DC to Milwaukee arriving at 12:30 PM. The part was to arrive at the mechanics Friday morning and Jacob would just be a couple hours late picking me up and we’d be on our way. No big deal right?
So after I freaked out for a couple hours I started to calm down, take some cold medicine and try to relax. Then I heard a huge crash. I run to the window and about 15 cop cars come out of nowhere, they start blocking off the streets and you seeing some running action. Within in seconds there is a police helicopter circulating. I see my neighbors outside so I go out to find out what just happened. Apparently there was some sort of police chase and he finally crashed into one of the cars on the street. That was all I could hear till a group of kids, whom I see every day, walk past us and soon two cop cars rush up to us and tackle these kids. They all had three handguns in their waist band! I see these kids every day.
I found out later that this was a stolen car from a block down that caused this ruckus. I also found out that it will be wise of me to stay away from a certain group of people who migrate rather close to my front door.
It’s Friday morning and I just got through security at the Ronald Reagan National Airport. I make one last call to Jacob to confirm that we’ll be all good to go. He said that he received a confirmation that the part had been shipped and will be arrived to the shop sometime this morning. Phew! I get to Milwaukee around 12:40. We decided that I should get a hotel room in Milwaukee because it might be a while till he can arrive and get me since with the delay. I jump on a free shuttle to the Holiday Inn Express near the airport. I get there with a rumbling stomach and the shuttle driver offers to drop me off at a nearby local restaurant for a bite to eat. I’m still not a hundred percent so I end up taking a little nap at the hotel. It’s nearing 4pm and I still haven’t gotten a call that the car has been finished. After a while of passing the hotel room and freaking out, Jacob calls me with the news. The wrong shipping information was put on the package and it will not be arriving till Monday morning.
(At this point all Hell breaks loose)
I’m wondering if I should book a flight back to DC the next morning or would it be too expense? We decided that I’m going to stay in Wisconsin and drive with him Monday morning granted my office is okay with me missing Monday and Tuesday. Since Jacob’s car is in the shop and his dad’s car isn’t working due to a recent accident where a deer came out of nowhere! I was stuck in Milwaukee alone for the night. Jacob borrowed a car and left Eau Claire (4 Hours North of Milwaukee) early Saturday morning to come pick me up and take me back to Eau Claire for the weekend. We basically just hung out and spent time with his family and said some goodbyes till we’d be back. It turned out to be a good weekend.
Monday morning we wake up and start re-packing Jacob’s life. Since he is a typically boy, I had to use my girl super powers to re-organize his ‘organized’ packing. We got a call that the part was en route to the shop and should be done around noon. Perfect! We could get a good 10 hours in today and then only eight left on Tuesday! That sounded like a great plan.
Wait why would that work out? Isn’t everything supposed to be utter chaos?
We got the car around 4:30, packed it full in the pouring rain, and were on the road by 6:20. We made it to South Bend Indiana around 2:45 AM and stopped at a hotel for the night. After a three or so hour nap we woke up and hit the road again. Not to mention a pit stop at the local Wal-Mart to get heavy medication for Jacob’s ear infection that was extremely uncomfortable for him. To say we were exhausted is an understatement. The scariest part of the entire journey was the PA Torn Pike…needless to say we will NEVER take that again. 2 plus hours of winding through mountains with speeding semi’s racing past us and no shoulder to speak of…yuck.
We got home and unpacked at 8:30 last night. We were exhausted. We were relieved. We were finally home.
Oh yeah, the car that has become the most unreliable car known to mankind became the smoothest 18 hour car ride…I guess it was worth the wait!
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