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Last night I took off around 10 of 5pm to get some color ink. I needed to print out some sale tags for an order my wife will be delivering tomorrow. Naturally I figured I could get out to the nearby Best Buy and back within an hour give or take 15 minutes – plenty of time to get back before dinner.
Of course at 10 of the hour traffic in Mystic is absolutely dead. The bascule bridge on Main St. goes up for 10 to 20 minutes every hour at 20 till the hour. With raising and lowering time added in that means traffic is dead stopped for 20 to 30 minutes surrounding the top of the hour. I know better than to head out by car anywhere near the top of the hour usually, but not last night.
Around 10 after 5 I finally was able to get out of the parking lot and head away from town. Everything else went normal until I was leaving. It had started raining pretty good, and I was on the way back to the highway when some construction trash (I think it was a 2×4) that got kicked up by the truck in front of me. I had no chance to avoid it and nailed it hard with the passenger wheel. Flat. Blew out the sidewall on the really pretty new and still in great shape Goodyears.
So now I am already late, changing a stubborn flat in the pouring rain on the side of a busy road (2 jack_sses decided it would be fun to splash me, riding into the shoulder to hit the puddle!) After getting the emergency spare on I limped to our local warehouse store, bought a pair of new tires for the fronts (ouch!) and called home – yes I forgot to grab the cell. I finally actually dragged in the house around 9:15pm covered in dirt and grease and still soaked to the bone.
Of course today more than made up for it… both my wife and I are now legit businesses according to the state. Oh and we got 25 pounds of silk delivered today. Nice. Now to get busy.