Today is gonna be a better day…
27th June 2006
I feel it already.
Yesterday, Daughter #1 needed to get out to Glendale for an interview (for summer internship), and to get there, she had to get on the Amtrak (beause L.A.’s transportation system, specifically the metrolink trains, doesn’t work mid-morning through mid-day, at least not in our area) and then catch a bus (a trip that takes an hour and a half). On her way back, she called to let me know she is on the Surfliner and could I pick her up from the Irvine Train Station?
Sure thing, I said, like any good father. I packed up, jumped into my car and got going. I stopped to fill up the gas, but when I tried to re-start the car, it made some strange gurggling noises and then refused to start. I panicked, but luckily a kind man on the other island saw my predicament, came over and got a jumper cable off his car, spun his car around and jump started my car. Thanking him, and exchanging business cards, I jumped back to my car and got onto the freeway.
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