Happy Friday!
Scandal, there is nothing more to say than I love the show and I’m hooked! Thank you Shonda Rhimes, you are amazing. I may even start watching Grey’s Anatomy again, it’s looking good. Cyrus hit Mellie last night and put her back under the bus! Loved it!
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Ok…..picture it with me…you put on a cute outfit, gotta run errands. Not dressy, just cute and casual. You take care of all your business, go to fill up your vehicle before you hit the road. I’m at least a 30 minute drive from my house. It’s cold out, wind blowing like crazy. I stand behind my SUV because it’s big and blocks some of the wind but I’m still watching the meter as the gas fills up. I was at half a tank before I started pumping, but notice that at $50 it’s still pumping, look at the pump and gas is spewing everywhere! The automatic valve that stops gas from pumping was broken and gas was spilling all over the place. So I had to grab the handle while it was spewing all over the place and finally got it to stop. By this time, I’m at $56.00 and gas is all over the ground. I go inside to report what’s happened, and I’m treated like I have the plague because I have gas all over me and gas is a powerful, strong odor. They get the manager, I tell her what happened. She tells me, we’ll give you one gallon of gas as a courtesy, after she reprimands me for not being with the vehicle. Excuse me? There is one gallon on gas all on me and I was standing here the whole time! Needless to say, I wasn’t happy and she had to go regroup and get her thoughts together.
I’m on the phone with my husband and he’s yelling, do this, tell them that. I’m at the Air Force installation mind you, he’s yelling they are there to serve us. I’m freaking out because I wreak the smell of gas and people are reacting to me being inside the store. It was 25 degrees outside, what you want me to do, stand outside? I go and put my coat in the car, after the clerk gave me a bag to put it in. The supervisor who chewed me out had changed her story and apologized for the gas pump not working properly, but she only gave me $8 back for two gallons of gas and offered to reimburse me for my cleaning bill. I took the info and left, glad to be out of there.
I had on a sweater coat, so everything got tossed in the washing machine as soon as I got home. I pull up to the house and across the street there are at least 15 police cars. WTH??? What in the world is going on? Apparently, they are looking for some criminal and I saw them arrest him. They had shot guns out, which made me nervous because it was about 30 minutes before school was out for my oldest daughter. By the time she got home, they had put their guns away but were still looking for something or someone. What a day, I was in the bed by 8:00 that night.
The weather here changes every 15 minutes. The picture above is from Tuesday, and the snow was from yesterday. We got mega snow yesterday, at least 6 inches by the time it finished in my neighborhood. It’s truly beautiful watching it snow, especially when you don’t have to leave the house. Everyone was home yesterday, I was relieved about that. We have plenty of food, so I stayed in my pajamas all day. It was so nice, I was able to get some writing done, and catch up on some of my favorite blogs. It’s a big mess this morning though.
Don’t forget to check out me out at Parent Society, I have two new articles released this week. I’ve been getting good feedback, one article is on transitioning my daughter into adulthood and the other is a list of things you don’t say to a woman over 50. I would sure appreciate if you all would go and check out my articles. Much love and appreciate the support.
What a day is right! And the weather—we get the weird swings of weather here too. Stopped by from SITS. Enjoying your blog. I’m an over 50 blogger, loving blogging.
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Hey Pam, thanks for the visit, it was a day. Wished I had stayed home.
Wow, is all I can say to that day. I can’t stand the very faintest odor of gas. When I was growing up, I would always secretly wish we’d hurry and get home bc my Mother would bring that air back in the car with her. I can’t imagine having it all over, poor thing. Lesson learned for us all..not to trust the valve! Weather is def all over the place.
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It was bad, you can imagine I was getting sick. It did help that I put my sweater in a bag and put in the back of the truck. Exactly about the valve and the thought of wasting money.
Wow what a difference some days make sun one day snow the next. I hate when things come up when the kids are getting out of school glad no one was hurt.
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That picture is after some of the cars cleared, it was many more probably 20. You should have seen me looking out to make sure she was ok.
Oh my, what a day. So sorry about that gas incident, people could be nicer, couldn’t they?
The snow is so pretty!
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One lady yelled OMG so loud, I just wanted to disappear, and that’s not how I usually react. It was very strong. thanks for visiting.
You sure did have an eventful day. Thank God that HE gives us new mercies everyday! It is a blessing that things were no worse. Have a blessed Sunday!
Thank you Trinity, not feeling very good today staying in this morning. I hate missing church, but I’ll live stream from my old church.
girl – that gas spillage ain’t no joke. in a completely dumb move on my part, i let The Girl “help” me pump when she was younger. WRONG! the gas got all over us. and yes, the smell will kill ya.
keep up the good work over on Parent Society! i want to comment without having to register, but their Facebook plugin isn’t working. i’ve alerted their team so hopefully they’ll get it resolved soon.
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Thanks Donna, I’ve contacted them too. I understand not wanting to try to remember another log in name & password. That gas smell was just awful, it stuck with me until I took a shower.