Tuesday, April 25, 2006 | by nathan

Sleep! That’s Where I’m A Viking!

It’s 10:13 a.m. and I just got out of bed. Why? Because the air conditioning still isn’t fixed and it is really, really difficult to get to sleep at night. Luckily there were some pretty severe thunderstorms last night which, aside from producing some of the coolest tornado footage I have seen in years, cooled things down a lot.

Mom was on her way home from work last night and her car hydroplaned on the interstate, hitting a guardrail and royally fucking up her car. She was okay, fortunately, but she had to wait an hour for a highway patrolman to come help her, which took an hour, in which the guy drove by twice. When he did stop he was laughing, and kept laughing, right in her face, then proceeded to give her a $218 ticket, saying that it was her fault that she hydroplaned. "I couldn’t see ten feet in front of my car," she said. "I wasn’t speeding. You can hydroplane at any speed."

John and Crystal went to get her, as I was in class when all this happened, and John apparently had some words with the HiPo about responding to calls in a timely fashion and not laughing at people who have been in horribly traumatic car accidents. I wish I could have been there for that. Anyway, mom’s fighting the ticket, but her car is still fucked up. Crystal has AAA so she is going to have it towed off the side of the interstate today. Mom was pretty shaken up when I talked to her, and also mad at me for not calling her all weekend. Ugh.

Anyway, I think it’s going to be all right; grandpa loaned mom the money to pay for the repairs to the car, and provided Crystal can get it towed it should be fixed soon enough. In the meantime I wish bad stuff would stop happening to my mom.