i got that chicken strip sandwich, that day!

it was awesome, too!

i got out of bed at, like, 9am and it is SO dark and cloudy that i'm tempted to get back in.
in fact i might. nate is at class until 11:45 or so. i was HOPING that the sun would be out so that i could go to the pool until he got home. but no, of course not.

yesterday his mom and david stopped to see us on their way back from the boone to wilmington. they had driven delaney to boone to stay with her grandparents for the week. we went to chilis and it was delish. when we got in the car to leave it wouldn't start. the battery was COMPLETELY dead. like, un-jumpable, so we asked this guy and his girlfriend if they had any tools.

at first david just thought maybe the corrosion on the battery was preventing it from getting any juice. this nice guy in his pimped out civic totally had a whole bag of tools. he let us use them, and when that wasn't the problem, david told them thanks and said they should go enjoy their meal. they guy offered to leave his tools with us so david kept the adjustable wrench so that he could use it when we got a new battery. he just told us to stick it under his tire when we were done. how nice and trusting is that? he was def our hero!

now all we needed was a new battery. walmart was two miles in one direction but it was open late. advance auto was about 700yards in the other direction but was closing in 15 mins. i suggested to call nate's roommate, but no. :P they opted for advance auto, so while nate's mom (donna) and i waited, they walked. i decided to call the place and ask the guy if he would be so kind to wait until they got there before closing up. he was pretty awkward on the phone and asked me things like:

'well, how long will it take them to get here?'
(umm, not sure. i've never walked from chili's to advance auto, sir)

and

'what do they look like?'
(they'll be the two guys who walk in at 8 o'clock and ask for a battery. COME ON)

so, they guy said he would be there until 8:10 or so doing paperwork. he wasn't very kind but he wasn't exactly mean either. not 5 minutes later (it's now like 7:50) nate and david come walking back. i asked them "what happened??" nate said "i just called bob (his roommate). he's going to come pick us up and take us to walmart." i'm like, OHHHH when i threw that idea out it was good enough! so then i remember that i've just asked this advance auto guy to keep and eye out for nate and david and now they aren't going. i told nate he had to call him back to tell him never mind but nate said it didn't matter, so whatever. no biggie. so we're waiting on bob to pull in and here he comes and he pulls in, and this nissan pathfinder in front of him stops right in front of him and pulls up to our car and yells out the window

"DO YOU WANT THE BATTERY OR NOT?"

it was the advance auto dude! i look at my watch and it's EXACTLY 8pm. which means he left the store before it even CLOSED. "i didn't see your friends walking anywhere". CREEPY. we told him they accidentally walked in the wrong direction and we would probably have to go pick them up. :P

anyway, david hops in the car with weird advance auto dude to go get a battery. now bob is there for nothing. so bob, nate, donna and i stand around telling funny stories for a half hour. we were beginning to get concerned at about the 20 minute mark. i mean david did hop in with some guy he doesn't know that came and FOUND us in the restaurant parking lot. FINALLY david gets back with creepy AA guy with a battery. david said the reason it took a half our was because the guy was closing the store. hahaha. WITH david there. we used the nice guy's wrench to install it, and then we put it back under his tire with 5$ attached to it. HOPEFULLY he got it :]



it just thundered!