Lessons From A Corporate Tool

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The Curse of the New Truck....AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

Let me give you a rundown of my night:

When I was leaving from work I realized that I didn't have my parking pass to get out of the parking garage. So, I had to pay $6 to get out of the lot...no biggie. On the way out, instead of going out the contract parking exit I went out the visitor exit, which made me make a right turn. When I made the right turn I scraped a curb. Annoyed, I yelled at the curb to move, thinking I probably hurt it more than it hurt me.

I got back to my house, got some stuff together, then headed out to do some truck stuff. On the way out of my garage, the stupid thing slammed on the hood of my truck. I saw this coming, paniced, put it in reverse, held my foot on the pedal, and succesfuly reved the engine. (Looking back, that would not have been my plan). Garage 1 - Jeff 0. I got out to look at what happened and realized that there wasn't any damage b/c the bottom of the garage is just rubber. Some girl was walking by and asked me if I needed help but I had no idea how to answer her. "Could you fix my piece of junk garage?" I messed with the thing for a minute and eventually got it back on track. No harm done.

So I was on my way to get my old CD player installed at Car Toys. It was raining. I got out of my truck. As I was walking towards the store I decided to turn around and admire my truck, as I normally do. Only this time there was a huge dent in the side of it. Here's what I did. I stood there in the rain with a sad, defeated, despaired, costly look on my face.

So, I'm not exactly sure about this...but, it turns out that the curb that I hit was guarded by a post. I'm pretty sure that when I hit the curb I also ran into the post also...which, to the best of my knowledge, serves no purpose except to scrape and dent your car when you hit the curb.

So, rundown of the events:

1) I ran my truck into a post
2) I slammed my garage door on the hood of my truck
3) Oh yeah and my insurance rates went up (naturally)

Crap.

11 Comments:

At 10:16 AM, Blogger Justin said...

you're still leaving out a major detail. What kind of truck did you get you hoser?

 
At 10:22 AM, Blogger Jeff said...

I got a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab Laramie w/ a 5.7 Liter V8 Hemi (and a dent in the side).

 
At 1:48 PM, Blogger Grant said...

jeff you have my sympathy, cars are a pain...

 
At 6:57 PM, Blogger praying4umom said...

Jeff, you should be a comic writer. You are too funny. Sorry about the tough day.
Mom

 
At 9:18 AM, Blogger Justin said...

Very nice, very manly. Glad you didn't wuss out and get the small V8.

Again, what's with these accountants driving big trucks. Not like you're hauling hay or anything. I have a buddy from high school driving an F250 4x4 Diesel, and my brother in law (also an accountant) is driving a Dodge 4x4. Sheesh. Poseurs.

 
At 2:02 PM, Blogger Grant said...

mate i'm coming to Dallas in october. heck yeah!

 
At 11:11 PM, Blogger gyna said...

hmm..that sucks.

you see. if you would have gotten the ford fiesta, this probably would have never happened.

hope things start looking up :)

 
At 8:26 AM, Blogger Jay said...

That sucks man. Big time.

I was with you the last time your old truck got dented. That was not fun either.

 
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