May | 2009 | Michael Trump

Another blow out!

May 13, 2009 at 5:17 pm (Uncategorized)

Okay so today I am going to explain the importance of having a cell phone. So I woke up this morning a little earlier than I usually do and well I thought today was going to be a great day. I got dressed, ate, picked up the house a little bit, and made my lunch with enough time to lay down by Cherelle who isn’t feeling that well today. I left like ten min before 7am thinking wow I am going to be right on time for externs today, oh this is going to be a great day. I left my camera even though I had a feeling that I needed to bring it, because for about two weeks or so now I have wanted to take a few pictures of some scenery that I see everyday on my way to work. Leaving my Panasonic Lumix behind on the book shelf I was on my way. Now to the cell phone part; since I was eighteen I have had a cell phone with only gaps of about a day or so in coverage. For about a month now I have been with out phone service and am getting used to it. Though my mom didn’t and doesn’t like the fact that I am with out phone service. Monday I got my back paid gas money and this months gas money from Vocrehab; with that I was going to get my phone turned back on since I think everyone should have one. Cherelle reminded me that I didn’t need it and not to worry about being without a phone. My mom’s reasoning for wanting me to have a phone is because I drive thirty miles one way everyday to work. She knows I have bad luck and that I would need a way to call some one for a helping hand at some point in my externship. Well today is one of those days that having a phone would have come in great. I am right now sitting at the entrance of Calusa Trace, a community off Dale Mabry just north of Van Dyke. I am at a stop here because my rear driver side tire blew out on my way to externs. Now that wouldn’t have bee a problem if the tire that blew out wasn’t my spare. So I am probably ten to fifteen miles from work still and am with out a cell phone. After the blow out, which was way less damaging than when the front tire blew out over a year ago, I secured the car and started walking south till I got to a gas station so I could try to make a call for help. My trek was just over a mile and a shell gas station was where a kind cashier allowed me to make one call. I chose to call my mom so she could call my extern site and let them know that I was on the side of the road and that I didn’t forget about them. If I had a working cell phone I could have stay within the safety of my car that is pulled far enough off the road to avoid getting hit. My walk on the other hand wasn’t so safe, and you wouldn’t believe how many cops drove by me and didn’t bother to see why the hell I was walking down the side of a highway. The area of Dale Mabry that I am at there are no sidewalks and its where the road splits to go to the parkway. I don’t believe that I would have been hit by a car, but some bum on a bicycle thought it would have been funny to scream in a scary way right behind me, I don’t scare to easily any more thanks to an old friend Joe who always tried to scare me as often as he could, I wanted to kick him off his bike and take it but that wouldn’t have been to nice on my part. So now I sit and wait till my mama comes and picks me up. I have jacked up the Lincoln taken off the tire and now I wait patiently for a ride.

Once again I am missing externship and hoping that I have an understanding preceptor once again since I missed Monday because I didn’t have gas money and now that I got my gas money I am going to have to spend it on a new tire and once again I’ll be missing work because I am broke, well I hope not. I guess I’ll have to find some side stuff to do for some cash. It is starting to look like I am never going to finish my externship, well I know I will but it is going to be hard only because I believe the cards are stacked against me . I am not mad because I have grown to except it and have tried to work with it. I know better days are going to be here some day. Ya know it would be nice if I had some one to talk to write now, like some one to call. Oh well I guess. So I guess I am done writing for now… 2 ½ hours late.

Well my love Cherelle “who is so sick today” came and got me today in my time of need and she made me wait forever too, but only because there was some miss communication between her and my mama on where I was. Cherelle went way out in the wrong direction to get me, but at least she came and got me. So I packed up my blown out tire and we were off to my fake work to get my man bag that held my little bit of money. I was so far away and I am so glad I didn’t decide to walk to my extern. My instructor was doing an echo so I didn’t get to explain what had happen. I had Cherelle drive me to my buddy Steve’s work, Tires Plus; to get a new tire and to see if he could cut me a deal because he is my peep. Well today he wasn’t there and I guess I got a good deal but who knows. I just wish I had the cash for all the tires to get replaced, so that I wouldn’t have any worries for the life of the tires. The guy who helped me with the tire informed me that this was an original piece of equipment at least twenty years old.

I guess my mama couldn’t come get me because she had some important stuff to do and that was cool because me and Cherelle got to hang out a little bit more than we normally do. We also got to take a few really nice pictures of some cool stuff, well the stuff that I have wanted to take pictures of for a while now. Look at this big yellow back-hoe thing just sitting helplessly out in a huge field all by its lonesome just watching the cars drive by. Poor thing, I see it there everyday and have always wanted to get its picture just incase someone decides to move this lonesome giant to a new location in need of a back-hoe and then there will only be an empty field. I know that this is just an earth mover, but sitting out in the field it looks like a piece of art strategically placed for all to see and enjoy. I also got a few more pictures of that old run down, vine covered water house looking thing off the side of Gun highway. I love how this beautiful heap of wood sticks look and would love to hop the old barbed wire fence and just walk all around this old shack and get all the pictures that I can handle. Not far from the run down water house were a bunch of young fresh sun flowers off to the side too, and Cherelle wanted me to pick her one of God’s beautiful creations and to get a couple pictures too. So I had somewhat of a good day even though I sat in my car for 3 ½ hours hot, hungry, and with a tooth ache before rescue.