Category Archives: Local

Automobiles, Life, Local

Uber Gets Me There

I’ve had some problems with my car lately, so I started taking Uber. What a great idea that was. I downloaded the Uber app on my phone. You enter your name, address, and credit card number. When you need a ride, you just type in the address you are going to. It shows you the price before you ever confirm that you need the ride. It then shows you exactly where your driver is at the time, and how long it will take to get to you. From the safety standpoint, they have thought of everything. You are given your driver’s name, photo, and a description of the car including license plate number.

That, of course, did not stop me from almost getting in the wrong car when I first started using Uber. A car approached me, standing on the street, and stopped in front of me. I almost jumped in. I’m much more careful now to look at the make of the car or license plate if I can and look for the Uber sticker on the front window.

After you get out of the car, your credit card is automatically charged the fare. You are given the opportunity to rate your driver, and/or add a tip, which is not required.

All of the drivers I have had have been very nice. I look forward to having my car repaired soon, but in the meantime, I’m thankful I’ve found Uber.

Automobiles, Business, Local

No Neighborhood for Sports Cars

My neighborhood is a bunch of single family homes on nice, wooded lots. Everyone has a nice, well kept lawn in the front and most have a fence in the back. Its full of working class people and young families, a couple of old geezers, and me. This is not a neighborhood for sports cars. This is a neighborhood of minivans, SUVs, a few Buick Regals and my Jeep. The most daring car here is a 2010 Mustang, black, driven by an older lady across the street.

The woman next door to me drives a big white Lexus SUV and that thing is always in the shop. I had made the mistake of telling her one time that if she ever needed a ride to work while her car is being repaired, that she can call me any time. Of course, I thought it was going to be a one time repair for a few days. But it has turned out to be endless, ongoing repairs ever since she bought this lemon. I tell you what, after hearing all the problems she has had with that Lexus, I will never buy one of those fuckers.

Last night she called and told me that the Lexus has a bad transmission and that it will be in the shop this whole week. She was practically crying and of course I told her I would be happy to give her a ride to work and home again. So, this morning I had to leave the house about 20 minutes earlier than normal to give myself enough time to fetch her and go to her office, then backtrack in rush hour traffic to get to my office by 8:30. It was close, but I made it with 4 or 5 minutes to spare. Not that anyone watches the clock at my office, but I just hate to be late and take personal pride in being on time 99% of the time.

Local, Outdoors, Recreation, Shopping, Sports

Grand Opening of a New Sports Gear Store

There is a huge new sports gear store opening up in Mt. Juliet this weekend. I noticed it when they first broke ground on the property back in the Spring. It was so big that I thought they were building one of those huge multiplex movie theaters. I was surprised when it turned out to not be a movie theater but a sports store.

The flyer that I got in the mail says that the grand opening is going to be a big deal, with lots of giveaway items to the first couple hundred shoppers in the new store, door prizes given away while you are shopping, and special money saving coupons on select brands and items, like insulated high top hunting boots for only $15, and fingerless gloves for only $4 all weekend.

you can bet your ass that I’ll be there this Saturday and looking for some bargains. And with the store being in mt. Juliet, that’s only a ten minute drive from my house – so I’ll probably be a regular shopper there now that they will be open.

Life, Local, Opinion, Sports

Sundays are for Football and Chili

The best thing about this cold fucking weather is that Sundays mean football games at home on my big ass HDTV flatscreen with surround sound. I bought the biggest fucking TV they had in the store last year and it rocks! I put it in the middle of the room, right over the fireplace and in front of the most comfortable fucking couch you ever sat your fat ass in. And my chili is world famous – you should come by some time and have a bowl with me.

The teams that I’m loyal to have been disappointing in their performance these past couple of years. I grew up in a hard core Redskins fan family. I mean the Redskins football games were taken more seriously than religion! And then when I went to college and moved away I still cheered for the redskins – even when I couldn’t get their games on the local TV.

But now I have picked the Pittsburgh Steelers as my team. I can’t stand the Tennessee Titans – they suck and their coaching staff sucks and the team owner, Bud Adams, sucks, too. It would not hurt my feelings if the Titans packed their shit up and left town for someplace else. They are just stinking up the joint around here as far as i am concerned. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass when you go, losers!

Local, Money

Guess I Need a New Tire

Heading out of the house and to the car, I just happened to notice the rea right tire seemed a little low on air. So I went ove to check it and didn’t see an nail or anything visibly wrong. But it was definitely low on air. The only place around here that I know with an air machine is the Thornton’s gas station. They have an air machine off to the side and they charge a buck twenty-five for about 3 minutes of air. If you have to pump up all four tires, be prepared to spend five buck in quarters at the air machine.

Anyway, I pumped it back up to 30 psi and went to work. At lunch I decided to talk a walk outside to the parking lot and check the tire. The fucker is running low again. There must be a nail in it that I don’t see or maybe a leak from the valve. I don’t know.

This is just my luck. I wanted to wait until November to get 2 new tires fro the car. Now it looks like I need to get one ASAP. I don’t like getting just one tire, so now I’ve got to scramble and find some extra cash to buy two tires a month earlier than planned. Ain’t that the way it goes? FML