Crazy Weekend

So last weekend I was driving through foxridge and my jeep steering wheel started to stiffen up making it hard to turn. I some how made it into a parking spot and sat and moved the wheel around a little bit to get it to move better. Then once I got it to work again I took it back to my apartment lot and left it there until I could figure out what to do with it. So later that night I called up the campus exxon to see if they could look at it. The guy told me they would and to bring it over whenever and they would look at it on Monday. So I take the car over sunday and hoped that it would be done in time for me to leave on thursday after my test. So around 9 am on Monday when I was walking to class I got a call from the exxon place saying that they couldnt find anything wrong with the pump and fluid so they would take apart the steering colum and lube up the parts in there. Well I had that done for $116, and needless to say I still didn't feel comfortable when I got in my jeep to drive away. It still made this clicking noise when I would turn it to certain points. I knew I had to go home thursday so I didn't bother to question if they did anything so I just went on my way. I trusted that they looked it over and made sure that it didnt have severe damage. Anyways needless to say on my drive home thursday my steering wheel stiffened up real bad when I was driving on 81, I was going around turns hoping it wouldnt keep going straight. Somehow maricle pending I made it to my sisters house and that was good enough for me since my friend who is a mechanic could get to it. That night he took it to his shop to allow for him to look at it the next morning. Finally when he took a look at it he thought it might have been something in the wheel axels, but it wasn't it turned out to be my steering wheel bearings they were completely shot. I was so pissed that the campus exxon didn't see that and they should have if they really did get into my steering colum. They have completely lost my trust and will not be getting a good message about them from me. I am also going to go and talk to them about this when I get the old bearing back and show them that this could have caused a severe accident.

Another Story

I thought the time that the in class writing assignment that we did a few weeks ago was fun, so I decided to do it again.
Audience: Young people
Detail: An ipod that has been stolen
Setting: A classroom
Character: A young girl who is a goody goody
On Monday Marsha was on her way to school when she stopped to tie her shoes. She finally got up and started to walk towards her school when she stumbled over a stick on the sidewalk. She couldn’t catch her balance and fell forward and scrapped up her knee. Once she got to her school she went to her homeroom and asked her teacher for a band aid, her teacher asked her what it was needed for and saw that she had a deep cut on her knee. The teacher took the girl to the nurse’s office and while at the office some kids entered into the classroom. Drew the class clown noticed Marsha’s book bag at the front of the room and scurried up to snag her ipod that she always stores in the front pocket. When Marsha came back she noticed that her book bag had been moved and started to whine to the teacher. Marsha started to go through the bag and noticed that her ipod was missing. The teacher got red as a beet and told the class to fess up to who took the ipod or they would all lose 20 pts on their final grades. Finally after 10 minutes of frustration Drew finally fessed up.