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The Common Thread
2003-07-18 06:43:34 (UTC)

can i help you?

if you want a message, i can leave you one...but it will be
in the form of a short story.

my brother, who doesn't like me very much, asked me to eat
with him. we are eating, his friend meets us there and we
all walk out to leave. my car won't start. my battery is
deeeead. so, they go two doors down to buy me some jumper
cables. $8.00. my car starts, they leave, i go back to
advance auto parts to buy a battery.

it is 9:05 when i arrive. crap, they close at 9. i walk
to the door and luckily, two guys walk over and open up for
me. WAHOO! so i beg and plead and flip my hair and they
finally let me in to buy a battery. $52.94. i ask how
difficult it would be to install said battery, they say not
too if you know what you are doing. i don't. i asked for
assistance, the younger guy...about my age...volunteers to
stay LATE to help me put in my battery. he wrestled with
it for about 20 minutes because it was dark, and finally
finally finally i had a wonderfully new battery in my
car!! yesss and i didn't have to lift a finger. only
shell out the $60.94 this whole fiasco cost.




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