my dad rocks!

my dad came to bring me a car today (the intrigue, not the 300m... no worries, i am not that spoiled!) and he was going to take my car home... which made me nervous... to say the least! so 4th hour ended and my dad picked me up (5th hour is my plan period so i was able to leave for a little bit) and i experienced the beautiful weather that made me want to ditch out and not go back for the rest of the afternoon... and as we were driving he said he wouldn't drive the car back if he didn't feel safe doing so (which made me feel much better) and that we'd figure something out... either he'd find a rental car that he could drop off in suburbia or he could take a train back tonight (i know, isn't he great?) so that was that... i went back to school and told him to call me when he got home or when there was some update.

3:15 comes and the bell rings so i pull out the purse and have the following text message from my dad, "i am fine car brokedown i got a tow and sold it to the junk yard case closed" i love the no punctuation and huge space between am and fine! i'm just impressed he knows how to text! anyway, i get my things together because it's my day to tutor in the library and figure i'll call him and see what's up and what i need to do, so i call and then the hall suddenly gets really loud so i had to go back into my room and then something must have been going on with the car because he's just like, "lin, i'll have to call you back later." so then i went down to the library where there were TONS of kids and none of the other teachers except one with a test to give me and then she asked if i had any calculators and obviously i forgot them so i had to run back upstairs and get a few and then i came back down and fortunately one of the other teachers for the program had come down so it wasn't just me and all these crazy kids anymore... but i was the only math teacher today so that made life stressful for the first half of it... then it calmed down.

then my dad called and i was just like, "i have to take this" and just went off by myself for a minute so i could figure everything out. so he basically tells me that it died and he sold it to a junkyard... so i'm just wondering where in the world he is and everything and he goes, "laurie's coming to get me" and i'm like, "where are you?" because laurie is his co-worker and also lives in beecher. Apparently he had decided to take it on the interstate and it drove fine once he started driving fast but after an hour, everything i had told him it had been doing started happening... the RPMs got really high and all the warning lights came on so he got off at the exit, pulled into a BP gas station and the car died... good location for it! so i guess he called a tow truck and they were going to take it to a junkyard for him so he was just waiting for laurie... then he called me around 5 and was home and everything was taken care of! isn't my dad the best?

oh, and one more "i love my dad" thing about today... we've been talking about me buying a car this summer and so he's got three i'm supposed to look at online and stuff, but then he said i can keep the intrigue as long as i like... and when he was showing me the keys and stuff, he was like, this is for the remote start... i'll show you that when you need it (implying i can still have it in the winter) and then on the phone at 5, he said i could used it for as long as i wanted... so i don't even have to rush to get a car... now i don't know how long he really wants me to have it, but he did just get a new company car a couple months ago and they were going to rotate using the three cars since they both drive so much, but i guess since they still each have one, all is well and they don't need to rotate them? i don't know, but i definitely don't mind! the longer i can wait, the more i can put down on it and the less interest i have to pay in loans! seriously, my dad is the best!