Saturday, August 19, 2006
EGGS!!!
My friend Kristi is really into Elvis. She has a room in her house where EVERYTHING is an Elvis trinket. Everything in the room! She could GIVE a tour at Graceland. Every year, Kristi has an "Elvis' Birthday Party" in January and an "Elvis' Death Day" party in August ("Death Day Party"???) She serves grilled peanut butter and bananas sandwiches and we watch Elvis videos and lament the passing of the king. It's rather surreal.
Anyway, the aniversary of Elvis' death (29 years) was Wednesday. So, I went over to Kristi's house for the usual celebrations. I got there about 7:00. It was a very pleasant evening, and Kristi lives in a gated community, and I was parked in the driveway, so I left the windows open on my car.
We hung out for awhile, and I left around 10:00. Kristi doesn't really have outdoor lights, so I found my way to my car, jumped in, and saw something white on the dashboard. I went to pick it up, and discovered that it was sticky. EGG!!!!!
Long story short ... the egg hit the edge of the doorframe on the passenger side and coated the dashboard, the inside of the windshield, and onto the floor of the passenger side. There was another whole egg that hit the outside of the back windshield and dripped onto parts of the side of the car. Apparently a third egg missed my car all together and hit the ground beyond the car. And another egg hit Kristi's sister's brand new car on the back.
Well, after calling the police and having him take all sorts of photos and waiting for him to talk on the phone to Kristi's sister so that he could go over there to make another report, I got to leave for home.
The next day it cost me about $40 plus about $10 in tips to have the car cleaned inside and out. I have to admit that the car really needed to be cleaned (inside and out), and the car wash place did a fabulous job ... and because it still smelled bad inside I bought an air freshener (I never use air fresheners in my car!!), and at least it smells better than the egg smelled.
So ... that is my story of my car getting egged. It has never happened to me before. I'm just glad that it wasn't a new car or a new paint job.
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