my karma is starting to effect the people i know here in savannah!

pretty soon, i won't have any friends! no really...

on monday night, jessica and i had plans with mary to meet at the savannah mall and see slumdog millionaire. i can't imagine it will be playing for very long here and was very excited. mary lives about 35 minutes away from savannah. she leaves work about 4pm, so she was going to go home and then come back into town to meet us at the theatre.

well, i invited jessica over for dinner. i had made tofu noodle soup and it's a lot to eat all week long by myself. plus, we've been meaning to get together so she could see some wedding pictures. she and scott are getting married in september in south dakota. in fact, their wedding is 2 days after lee's and my anniversary and we're invited. so maybe we'll spend our anniversary in the black hills. beautiful, but rather inaccessible from boston...

anyhoo, we went to leave for the movie and as we pulled away from the curb in front of my house, the car was noticeably wobbling and leaning to one side. A FLAT TIRE! argh... so we called mary to tell her that unfortunately we weren't going to make it and we called scott so that he could ride his bike over and help us change the tire.

after fooling around with the jack for about 45 minutes, scott finally thought he got it. so we get the car jacked up. mind you, it is also dark, pouring rain, and all of my horrible neighbors at the boarding houses are out on their porches smoking up, getting drunk, and yelling at us. so we're working away on the car. we get the flat off finally. scott goes back to the trunk to pull out the spare and the jack breaks and the car slams onto the pavement... argh...

so scott calls their AAA. but when he finally got someone on the phone, they discover that their membership was indeed not renewed by scott's parents like they were told it was. it had been a gift from them and they apparently said they would maintain the membership for them. and guess what? the membership had only expired 2 DAYS AGO! after waiting on the phone for about 20 minutes, they finally decided that scott could, in fact, update his membership and transfer it to the state of georgia. then a garage was called and we were told it was going to be an hour.

when the guy from the garage finally showed up, he was an idiot and seemed to not understand anything we told him. we said the jack broke. he went and walked up to the car and asked where the jack was. then he yelled, "dude, you're car's on the ground!" and then proceded to tell us that he didn't know how to jack up their car with his jack because he just couldn't... another car was apparently parked too close. so we had to walk up to all the high and drunk neighbors and try to find out whose car it was. after that was solved, the guy went back to his truck and pulled out a jack that totally would have worked with that other car parked their. AND WHY WOULDN'T A SERVICE GARAGE THAT OPERATES TOW TRUCKS HAVE MORE THAN ONE SIZE JACK ANYWAY? i've never encounted this before.

then as he and scott are finishing up, 3 cop cars and an ambulance pull up at one of the boarding houses and there was clearly an emergency. the rest of the neighbors come running out of their houses to watch. and then the woman next door to me sees us and complains to me that my friends shouldn't park there because she wants her car exactly in front of her house. RIDICULOUS! especially considering i live on a regular street and she could see we were changing a FLAT!

just another night in the 'hood. but unfortunately, this entire ordeal took longer than the actual movie would have. oh well. hopefully i'll have a chance to see slumdog millionaire before it leaves savannah.