thejollyco
The Jolly Company
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Here's the trip to canada that i'll never forget. Its starts slow but there's a twist 
On saturday, my friend eric came to visit me. Since there's like nothing to do here in potsdam, we decided to go on a trip to the land up north, eh. Ottawa was the closest big city near potsdam, only like 2 hrs away. Well, we got started, printed out a map and everything. However we started out on the wrong foot. We ended up in massena instead of odgensburg. We asked for directions and eventually got to the border.
Right after we passed the border, we stopped at the visitors center where we got directions to ottawa. On the way out, eric noticed a hissing sound. The rear driver's side tire had a screw in it and was leaking out air. We found a walmart close by that did tire service, but they said it would take about an hour before it was our turn. The walmart was located at a plaza with a place that sort of remembles chilli's.
What to do for an hour or so? Order a white russian, 2 pints of fosters and get drunk (low tolerance b/c of pills). We wandered around the plaza from one store to the next, me stumbling around. I saw a cute girl at the grocery check out line and took a picture from a disposable camera that i got from walmart. Yeah, got. There was also an alcohol place where they were giving out samples of a brand of wine. I also got a mini bottle of vodka there (the 1 or 2 shot bottle).
Back to walmart to figure out what the deal is with the car. Apparently the bolts on the tire "seized" to the nuts so they had to fix that, which took another half an hour. Stupid old 95 geo prizm. So, we're back on the road. We stop near a gas station and there are three teens there looking bored. I ask if they are bored and i give them my mini-bottle. We arrive in ottawa, park on the street, and wander around. We stop at a bar called "Cock and Bull" where eric decides to have food. I just want more beer, and i get a pint of guiness. It tastes kind of bland. The service is bad and they gave eric fried zuchinni... ewwww.
We leave, walk around some more and decide to cruise around ottawa. At around 8:30 pm, we made a U-turn at an empty plaza because we went away from the city. Eric drives over a massive visible curb beacuse he's blind. Passenger front tire is blown. Crap. I wonder if there's a spare or a jack. Eric doesn't know anything so i have to check for myself. I look and to my surprise, i find everything i need. So, i jacked up the car and tried to take one of the nuts off. It siezed onto the bolt and the nut with part of the bolt inside fell off. Crap #2. Eric's cell phone is dead. I don't want my parents to yell at me for paying a butt load of money for long distance calls out of canada, or that i even went to canada. Since eric and i both ahve cingular, i switch the sim cards in the phones. Eric calls his parents to tell em what's going on. He originally wasn't, but later on decided he should, cause we need a tow truck, and we don't have that much money.
There was a convience store right next to the plaza and they called a tow truck for us. The tow trucks arrives 10 mins later. I ask him about a hotel and a garage. There's a motel 2 blocks away and a garage as well. I ask if the garage is open tomorrow (a SUNDAY) and the guy says that it is. The guy tells us that if we want to get the car fixed faster, to put the car key in an envelope and he'll slip it in the dropbox and leave our phone number. He takes us to this really sketchy looking motel and he leaves, with the car and key.
At the motel entrance, we ask for a room and a girl that's outside says that it's full, this is a joke since the parking lot is basically empty. Eric doesn't get that it's a joke and gets all pissed off and i stop him before he says anything he'll regret. It's 75 CND for 2 beds. We're poorer. The room is bare, it has a sink and fridge in the room and the bathroom (with another sink) is pretty disguesting as well. Since it's only 9:30 pm, i decide to watch some tele, cause there's nothing else to do. At around 11, eric gets tired and wants the tv off. I can't sleep, so i just lay in bed for 3 hrs.
At around 2 AM, i am bored enough that i decided to wander around outside. I walk a couple of blocks and there's this MASSIVE sphere that's sitting in the middle of a really tiny man made pond. The sphere is made of solid steel. It looks really shiny when vehicles pass by it i just sit around the place for an hour or so. It was big (around 10 feet in diameter) and SHINY!!!!
I still can't sleep but i want to watch tv. I take the remote from the room and walk a couple of doors down and turn on the tv in the window. It's a good thing that the remote works on the other tv's. Five of the channels on the tv have girls with phones in their hands and 1-900 numbers on the bottom. All the girls did was semi-pose in front of the camera. It seemed like an infomercial but with no real "selling" needed. Once channel had a kama-sutra instructions, and another channel with porn, but semi-hard core with a ton of fetish related crap. This is just normal cable tv in canada.... waht the heck??? I watched this program about JFK's shooting, dealing with angles and velocity of the bullet using lasers mounted on a guy. THere was this couple outside that arrive to the motel in a taxi and went to their room. I felt tired, so i decided to go to bed.
I went back to the room, eric's still sleeping, and i get ready to fall asleep. I start hearing these noises of the bed banging against the wall. Apparently the couple that came back were in the room next to us. Eric wakes up, and wonders why people are moving the bed around at this time at night. The rhythm and intensity of the knocking increases. I explain to eric that the people are having sex. (eric's older than me). After 10 mins, we watch tv, cause we can't sleep. When they stopped, i made my bed bang against the wall for a bit. I don't think they cared tho. Now, if eric would scream and stuff and i did too, then that would be freaky, but awesome. Eric doesn't wanna partake in my pranks.
So, i fell asleep and we wake up around 9 am sunday. We call the garage over 20 times in a 2 hr period but no answer. Eric wants to get breakfast at the kfc across the high way, which opens at 11. We go, he gets food and i start talking to the cashier. She asks us what's going on, and i tell her our weird tale. Apparently she's heard stories about the motel. Well, we had some small talk and leave after eric finishes his food. We check out of the motel and get a taxi to the garage. Taxi costs 14 CND (not including tax i guess), and i only have 20 us. He gives me 5 cnd back. I have 7 bucks total on me now.
We get to the garage, and it's located behind a closed and barbed fence. SUCK. There's a house infront of the gate that's in the midst of reconstruction, and there is a guy in it. We ask him about the garage. He doesn't know when they open or close. So, the next thing to do is to find a garage that can help us... like asap. Eric calls his dad to tell him our status, and i go off to find an open garage. It's a good thing that the particular garage is located next to a plethora of auto shops and what nots. I come back and eric's frickin gone. I do find a guy who's willing to fix it, but all we need is to move the car to the garage.
Eric comes back, he was driving around with the guy from the house trying to find a garage as well. I told him about the place i found. All we have to do now is to get the key and drive off. Since the original garage we were going to go to is fenced off, the tow truck guy must have left the key in the glove compartment or somewhere else in the car, right? NO. FRICK!!! WHERE"S THE FRICKIN KEY! WHERE IS THAT STUPID PIECE OF METAL??? We call the towing company. First time, they give eric the shug off. I call and talk, and they claim that there's nothing they can do because the guy who towed us isn't there. I call a thrid time 10 mins later and tell them that it's essential to talk to the guy cause he has our key. The towing company tells me that he'll "page" the guy and ask and that they will call us back. They call back and tell us that the key is under the door of the garage. the LOCKED garage, behind a barbed fence. Hmm. The guys that live in the house are the landlord of the place. They, however, don't have the key. Eric looks small enough to go under the fence. He climbs under and i ask if he sees it. Nope. The door is also locked. I tell eric to try to look at the garage door and perhaps lift it up. He's too scared to go in because the garage door might close. I frickin climb under the fence and go inside. I see the key and the inside door is unlocked. SWEEEEET MOTHER OF GHANDI!!!!! I get the key and we leave, and crawl under the fence again. I'm all dirty cause it rained hard in the morning and the floor was mud.
We drive the car to the place and get the car fixed. It costs 40 bucks and we don't have the money. We find an atm, and eric has too much trouble getting money out. I whip out my card and it works in no time. I'm probably gonna have to pay a bunch of fees tho. We pay the guy and we're on our way back home.
We go a different route back home because there's no duty free shop (canada side) the way we came from. We go inside, and i choose a 1 liter bottle of kaulua and 1.75 liter bottle of absolut. Costs about 45 CND. Eric's covering it because i covered the fix (which his parents will cover). The person asks us if we're both over 21. I say yes, and eric is giving me a weird look. I exclaim loudly, "I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!! WHERE IS YOUR BATHROOOM??????!!!" They show me and i go, leaving eric alone to get carded.
At the border, we have to pay tax for the stuff, which is only like 5 bucks. No biggie. We get back to potsdam, eat and i'm frickin exhaused. Eric leaves for ithaca, and i'm finally at the dorm. I fall asleep after watching family guy and american dad.
All and all, it was a pretty interesting trip. I didn't get really pissed off until i talked to the tow truck company. After that, it was pretty groovy. That is my adventure, and i have tried to describe it with enough (maybe a bit too much) detail. It remindes me of one of those movies where an adventure goes horribly wrong. I'm broke now, but i have enough ingredients for a lot of white russians. The dude's legacy still lives on.
Until next time. This update took more than an hour to write.
On saturday, my friend eric came to visit me. Since there's like nothing to do here in potsdam, we decided to go on a trip to the land up north, eh. Ottawa was the closest big city near potsdam, only like 2 hrs away. Well, we got started, printed out a map and everything. However we started out on the wrong foot. We ended up in massena instead of odgensburg. We asked for directions and eventually got to the border.
Right after we passed the border, we stopped at the visitors center where we got directions to ottawa. On the way out, eric noticed a hissing sound. The rear driver's side tire had a screw in it and was leaking out air. We found a walmart close by that did tire service, but they said it would take about an hour before it was our turn. The walmart was located at a plaza with a place that sort of remembles chilli's.
What to do for an hour or so? Order a white russian, 2 pints of fosters and get drunk (low tolerance b/c of pills). We wandered around the plaza from one store to the next, me stumbling around. I saw a cute girl at the grocery check out line and took a picture from a disposable camera that i got from walmart. Yeah, got. There was also an alcohol place where they were giving out samples of a brand of wine. I also got a mini bottle of vodka there (the 1 or 2 shot bottle).
Back to walmart to figure out what the deal is with the car. Apparently the bolts on the tire "seized" to the nuts so they had to fix that, which took another half an hour. Stupid old 95 geo prizm. So, we're back on the road. We stop near a gas station and there are three teens there looking bored. I ask if they are bored and i give them my mini-bottle. We arrive in ottawa, park on the street, and wander around. We stop at a bar called "Cock and Bull" where eric decides to have food. I just want more beer, and i get a pint of guiness. It tastes kind of bland. The service is bad and they gave eric fried zuchinni... ewwww.
We leave, walk around some more and decide to cruise around ottawa. At around 8:30 pm, we made a U-turn at an empty plaza because we went away from the city. Eric drives over a massive visible curb beacuse he's blind. Passenger front tire is blown. Crap. I wonder if there's a spare or a jack. Eric doesn't know anything so i have to check for myself. I look and to my surprise, i find everything i need. So, i jacked up the car and tried to take one of the nuts off. It siezed onto the bolt and the nut with part of the bolt inside fell off. Crap #2. Eric's cell phone is dead. I don't want my parents to yell at me for paying a butt load of money for long distance calls out of canada, or that i even went to canada. Since eric and i both ahve cingular, i switch the sim cards in the phones. Eric calls his parents to tell em what's going on. He originally wasn't, but later on decided he should, cause we need a tow truck, and we don't have that much money.
There was a convience store right next to the plaza and they called a tow truck for us. The tow trucks arrives 10 mins later. I ask him about a hotel and a garage. There's a motel 2 blocks away and a garage as well. I ask if the garage is open tomorrow (a SUNDAY) and the guy says that it is. The guy tells us that if we want to get the car fixed faster, to put the car key in an envelope and he'll slip it in the dropbox and leave our phone number. He takes us to this really sketchy looking motel and he leaves, with the car and key.
At the motel entrance, we ask for a room and a girl that's outside says that it's full, this is a joke since the parking lot is basically empty. Eric doesn't get that it's a joke and gets all pissed off and i stop him before he says anything he'll regret. It's 75 CND for 2 beds. We're poorer. The room is bare, it has a sink and fridge in the room and the bathroom (with another sink) is pretty disguesting as well. Since it's only 9:30 pm, i decide to watch some tele, cause there's nothing else to do. At around 11, eric gets tired and wants the tv off. I can't sleep, so i just lay in bed for 3 hrs.
At around 2 AM, i am bored enough that i decided to wander around outside. I walk a couple of blocks and there's this MASSIVE sphere that's sitting in the middle of a really tiny man made pond. The sphere is made of solid steel. It looks really shiny when vehicles pass by it i just sit around the place for an hour or so. It was big (around 10 feet in diameter) and SHINY!!!!
I still can't sleep but i want to watch tv. I take the remote from the room and walk a couple of doors down and turn on the tv in the window. It's a good thing that the remote works on the other tv's. Five of the channels on the tv have girls with phones in their hands and 1-900 numbers on the bottom. All the girls did was semi-pose in front of the camera. It seemed like an infomercial but with no real "selling" needed. Once channel had a kama-sutra instructions, and another channel with porn, but semi-hard core with a ton of fetish related crap. This is just normal cable tv in canada.... waht the heck??? I watched this program about JFK's shooting, dealing with angles and velocity of the bullet using lasers mounted on a guy. THere was this couple outside that arrive to the motel in a taxi and went to their room. I felt tired, so i decided to go to bed.
I went back to the room, eric's still sleeping, and i get ready to fall asleep. I start hearing these noises of the bed banging against the wall. Apparently the couple that came back were in the room next to us. Eric wakes up, and wonders why people are moving the bed around at this time at night. The rhythm and intensity of the knocking increases. I explain to eric that the people are having sex. (eric's older than me). After 10 mins, we watch tv, cause we can't sleep. When they stopped, i made my bed bang against the wall for a bit. I don't think they cared tho. Now, if eric would scream and stuff and i did too, then that would be freaky, but awesome. Eric doesn't wanna partake in my pranks.
So, i fell asleep and we wake up around 9 am sunday. We call the garage over 20 times in a 2 hr period but no answer. Eric wants to get breakfast at the kfc across the high way, which opens at 11. We go, he gets food and i start talking to the cashier. She asks us what's going on, and i tell her our weird tale. Apparently she's heard stories about the motel. Well, we had some small talk and leave after eric finishes his food. We check out of the motel and get a taxi to the garage. Taxi costs 14 CND (not including tax i guess), and i only have 20 us. He gives me 5 cnd back. I have 7 bucks total on me now.
We get to the garage, and it's located behind a closed and barbed fence. SUCK. There's a house infront of the gate that's in the midst of reconstruction, and there is a guy in it. We ask him about the garage. He doesn't know when they open or close. So, the next thing to do is to find a garage that can help us... like asap. Eric calls his dad to tell him our status, and i go off to find an open garage. It's a good thing that the particular garage is located next to a plethora of auto shops and what nots. I come back and eric's frickin gone. I do find a guy who's willing to fix it, but all we need is to move the car to the garage.
Eric comes back, he was driving around with the guy from the house trying to find a garage as well. I told him about the place i found. All we have to do now is to get the key and drive off. Since the original garage we were going to go to is fenced off, the tow truck guy must have left the key in the glove compartment or somewhere else in the car, right? NO. FRICK!!! WHERE"S THE FRICKIN KEY! WHERE IS THAT STUPID PIECE OF METAL??? We call the towing company. First time, they give eric the shug off. I call and talk, and they claim that there's nothing they can do because the guy who towed us isn't there. I call a thrid time 10 mins later and tell them that it's essential to talk to the guy cause he has our key. The towing company tells me that he'll "page" the guy and ask and that they will call us back. They call back and tell us that the key is under the door of the garage. the LOCKED garage, behind a barbed fence. Hmm. The guys that live in the house are the landlord of the place. They, however, don't have the key. Eric looks small enough to go under the fence. He climbs under and i ask if he sees it. Nope. The door is also locked. I tell eric to try to look at the garage door and perhaps lift it up. He's too scared to go in because the garage door might close. I frickin climb under the fence and go inside. I see the key and the inside door is unlocked. SWEEEEET MOTHER OF GHANDI!!!!! I get the key and we leave, and crawl under the fence again. I'm all dirty cause it rained hard in the morning and the floor was mud.
We drive the car to the place and get the car fixed. It costs 40 bucks and we don't have the money. We find an atm, and eric has too much trouble getting money out. I whip out my card and it works in no time. I'm probably gonna have to pay a bunch of fees tho. We pay the guy and we're on our way back home.
We go a different route back home because there's no duty free shop (canada side) the way we came from. We go inside, and i choose a 1 liter bottle of kaulua and 1.75 liter bottle of absolut. Costs about 45 CND. Eric's covering it because i covered the fix (which his parents will cover). The person asks us if we're both over 21. I say yes, and eric is giving me a weird look. I exclaim loudly, "I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!! WHERE IS YOUR BATHROOOM??????!!!" They show me and i go, leaving eric alone to get carded.
At the border, we have to pay tax for the stuff, which is only like 5 bucks. No biggie. We get back to potsdam, eat and i'm frickin exhaused. Eric leaves for ithaca, and i'm finally at the dorm. I fall asleep after watching family guy and american dad.
All and all, it was a pretty interesting trip. I didn't get really pissed off until i talked to the tow truck company. After that, it was pretty groovy. That is my adventure, and i have tried to describe it with enough (maybe a bit too much) detail. It remindes me of one of those movies where an adventure goes horribly wrong. I'm broke now, but i have enough ingredients for a lot of white russians. The dude's legacy still lives on.
Until next time. This update took more than an hour to write.
