Today started off like any other day.... woke up at 5:00am, got ready for work and me, the wife and my little one hopped in the car to beat the rush hour traffic at 5:45am.
As we're pulling out of the garage I see a note taped to the glass on my front door... I tell my wife to stop so I can get it and as I got to get it I notice that my front wall (hollow tile, solid grout, covered with stucco) has been damaged! The stucco is cracked and a couple of tiles are broken off and it doesn't look good. I get the note... it's from my neighbor's kid (fresh out of college) and he notifies me that he ran into my wall at 2:30 am with his Nissan Pathfinder! I don't have time to fully examine the damage so I take the note, hop in the car and head to town.
I called my dad later in the morning and asked him to check out the wall... he's a mason (now retired) and he, I and my friends built the wall. He calls and tells me that a few tiles need replacing and I'll need some cement, mortar, masonry sand and some tiles... nothing serious and the materials will only cost about $30. Whew... what a relief!
I then call the kid and he continues to apologize profusely.... I tell him that accidents happen and not to worry about it. He wants to pay for everything and when I told him it'll only cost him $30 I think he sh#t his pants in relief... LOL! I told him that me and my dad will fix it and it's not that bad... it should only take us a couple of hours. I then asked him what happened and he said he thinks his front axle broke... he was making the turn to our street (I live on the corner) and next thing he knew he blew out his two front tires and his Pathfinder was sitting on top of my wall! The part he hit was only 16-24" high but it took a tow truck to pull the truck off. His Pathfinder is reversed in his driveway and the front axle is up on blocks and it's going to cost him some big bucks to fix it! It's a good thing that I completely grouted my front wall when I made it... that sucker is like solid, reinforced concrete and I did it because I had always feared that someone would hit it one day... man did that decision pay off! My damage is $30 plus the time it'll take for me and my dad to fix the wall... his damage will be at least a couple thousand!
Ok... so the first crisis of the day is behind me and I'm feeling better. Then.... my cellular phone starts dying on me! It keeps shutting itself off for no reason and it's going fast!
So... I head over to the AT&T Wireless store that's nearest me to get a new phone. I wait for a half hour to be helped and finally a salesman calls my name. I look over the available phones and pick a Nokia 8265... and I even get a cool case for it too. I get to the computer and register and he looks up my account which is under my wife's name. He sees my phone listed on there and my name but he says I'm not authorized to upgrade MY phone!!!! I've been there for almost an hour and getting upset.... "what do you mean I can't upgrade my own phone?".... he says that it's my wife's account and although I'm listed on the computer I don't have the authority to do it unless I get my wife's permission. Well... it's her day off and she's running around town shopping for groceries and stuff and she doesn't leave her phone on. I call home.... answering maching.... we call her cellular... it's off. He tries to call her cell phone 2 more times and I'm telling him her phone is off and unless you can turn it on remotely by dialing the number she's not gonna receive the call... what an idiot! It's now over an hour and I'm fuming and he trying to calm me down telling me that their policy is for my protection! So here I am.... over an hour at the store.... ready to spend $200 on a new phone and case... upgrading MY phone that I pay for and I can't do it! I storm out irate and fling my chewing gum out of my mouth.... OOPS!... next thing I know it's sticking to their glass wall... LMAO!
I get back to my office and it's one mini-crisis after another! I swear all my clerks have forgotten their jobs and I'm being pulled for attention by all of them at once! I stay calm and help them all out but I'm still grumpy over everything that's happened previously. I could've used a stiff drink right then and there! LOL!
Then.... my whole day miraculously turns around! How you ask? My receptionist walks over to my desk and says... "Sorry, I forgot to give this to you earlier" and leaves puts a box on my desk. I'm puzzled... I didn't order anything recently (now, that's a first... LOL) and lo and behold it's a box from Bruddah Leebo! KA-BOOM That bastige pulled a sneak attack and bombed me good! An incredible assortment of cigars out of the blue.... unreal! Much thanks Bruddah Leebo... but I'm still gonna bomb yer ass! LOL!
Then... after lunch I get a call from my wife's aunty who is our mortgage broker. Wooohooo!!!! Our refinancing is going to go through... we were waiting to hear from the appraisers and needed our valuation to be high enough so that we could consolidate our mortgages.... and we got it! It'll be another week or so until closing but the squeezing is over and my sphincter can relax a bit... LMAO!
Then... our president/owner of the company comes to talk to me and notifies me that a real estate deal I've been working on is going to go through! We're purchasing a 5.4 acre lot to expand our operations and after months of number crunching, research and calculations it's gonna happen!!!!
Man... what started out as a crappy day sure turned around... all because of a bomb from Leebo! Bruddah Leebo... you are my hero!
Sorry for the long post Bruddahs... just had to get that off my chest and share how Leebo turned the day around for me! Leebo... you're a real Brother! But... I'm still gonna bomb your ass! LOL!
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Aloha,
Wade
As we're pulling out of the garage I see a note taped to the glass on my front door... I tell my wife to stop so I can get it and as I got to get it I notice that my front wall (hollow tile, solid grout, covered with stucco) has been damaged! The stucco is cracked and a couple of tiles are broken off and it doesn't look good. I get the note... it's from my neighbor's kid (fresh out of college) and he notifies me that he ran into my wall at 2:30 am with his Nissan Pathfinder! I don't have time to fully examine the damage so I take the note, hop in the car and head to town.
I called my dad later in the morning and asked him to check out the wall... he's a mason (now retired) and he, I and my friends built the wall. He calls and tells me that a few tiles need replacing and I'll need some cement, mortar, masonry sand and some tiles... nothing serious and the materials will only cost about $30. Whew... what a relief!
I then call the kid and he continues to apologize profusely.... I tell him that accidents happen and not to worry about it. He wants to pay for everything and when I told him it'll only cost him $30 I think he sh#t his pants in relief... LOL! I told him that me and my dad will fix it and it's not that bad... it should only take us a couple of hours. I then asked him what happened and he said he thinks his front axle broke... he was making the turn to our street (I live on the corner) and next thing he knew he blew out his two front tires and his Pathfinder was sitting on top of my wall! The part he hit was only 16-24" high but it took a tow truck to pull the truck off. His Pathfinder is reversed in his driveway and the front axle is up on blocks and it's going to cost him some big bucks to fix it! It's a good thing that I completely grouted my front wall when I made it... that sucker is like solid, reinforced concrete and I did it because I had always feared that someone would hit it one day... man did that decision pay off! My damage is $30 plus the time it'll take for me and my dad to fix the wall... his damage will be at least a couple thousand!
Ok... so the first crisis of the day is behind me and I'm feeling better. Then.... my cellular phone starts dying on me! It keeps shutting itself off for no reason and it's going fast!
So... I head over to the AT&T Wireless store that's nearest me to get a new phone. I wait for a half hour to be helped and finally a salesman calls my name. I look over the available phones and pick a Nokia 8265... and I even get a cool case for it too. I get to the computer and register and he looks up my account which is under my wife's name. He sees my phone listed on there and my name but he says I'm not authorized to upgrade MY phone!!!! I've been there for almost an hour and getting upset.... "what do you mean I can't upgrade my own phone?".... he says that it's my wife's account and although I'm listed on the computer I don't have the authority to do it unless I get my wife's permission. Well... it's her day off and she's running around town shopping for groceries and stuff and she doesn't leave her phone on. I call home.... answering maching.... we call her cellular... it's off. He tries to call her cell phone 2 more times and I'm telling him her phone is off and unless you can turn it on remotely by dialing the number she's not gonna receive the call... what an idiot! It's now over an hour and I'm fuming and he trying to calm me down telling me that their policy is for my protection! So here I am.... over an hour at the store.... ready to spend $200 on a new phone and case... upgrading MY phone that I pay for and I can't do it! I storm out irate and fling my chewing gum out of my mouth.... OOPS!... next thing I know it's sticking to their glass wall... LMAO!
I get back to my office and it's one mini-crisis after another! I swear all my clerks have forgotten their jobs and I'm being pulled for attention by all of them at once! I stay calm and help them all out but I'm still grumpy over everything that's happened previously. I could've used a stiff drink right then and there! LOL!
Then.... my whole day miraculously turns around! How you ask? My receptionist walks over to my desk and says... "Sorry, I forgot to give this to you earlier" and leaves puts a box on my desk. I'm puzzled... I didn't order anything recently (now, that's a first... LOL) and lo and behold it's a box from Bruddah Leebo! KA-BOOM That bastige pulled a sneak attack and bombed me good! An incredible assortment of cigars out of the blue.... unreal! Much thanks Bruddah Leebo... but I'm still gonna bomb yer ass! LOL!
Then... after lunch I get a call from my wife's aunty who is our mortgage broker. Wooohooo!!!! Our refinancing is going to go through... we were waiting to hear from the appraisers and needed our valuation to be high enough so that we could consolidate our mortgages.... and we got it! It'll be another week or so until closing but the squeezing is over and my sphincter can relax a bit... LMAO!
Then... our president/owner of the company comes to talk to me and notifies me that a real estate deal I've been working on is going to go through! We're purchasing a 5.4 acre lot to expand our operations and after months of number crunching, research and calculations it's gonna happen!!!!
Man... what started out as a crappy day sure turned around... all because of a bomb from Leebo! Bruddah Leebo... you are my hero!
Sorry for the long post Bruddahs... just had to get that off my chest and share how Leebo turned the day around for me! Leebo... you're a real Brother! But... I'm still gonna bomb your ass! LOL!
:0 Aloha,
Wade
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