Monday Morning

Today is Monday. As with most mornings, I start out lying in my bed for as long as possible, thinking about what I'm going to wear and what I might eat for breakfast, with the idea that it will save me time when I actually do get up.

This morning it took me even longer to get up, because I'm so beat up and sore from the weekend's events (Belt testing, etc.). I miraculously got out of bed and ready for my Monday so we could leave the house 10 minutes after 7, to be just in time for my first class.

But who should know that when we left the house we would have cause to not be on time to an 8 o'clock class in Corvallis? Nearly into Brownsville, my sister Kambria notices a strange sound and turns off the music. All of us thinking this sound is indeed strange, I decide to pull over in the parking lot of Dairy Mart. Out of the car we discover that I have a flat tire. Maybe that autoshop class from high school will actually be worth something.

Out of the three of us there, I was the only one who had some vague idea of how to change a tire. We knew where the spare was, but had difficulties in removing it from the trunk. As Kambria and Cassandra tried to figure out how to remove the tire, I took out the jack and started lifting the car. By the time I got the car up, they got the tire out, so we now had to take off the flat tire. In a failed attempt to remove the lug nuts from the tire, it was now that I remembered that you are supposed to loosen the nuts before lifting the car with the jack. This discovered, we lowered the car back down and at about this time a nice man came to help us.

We loosened the lug nuts and discovered that my car has a nifty lock on one of the nuts that prevents people from stealing your car tires. That guy finished loosening the nuts and seemed to will the car upwards with the jack at the speed he was going (anything was probably faster than me jacking up the car).

Both of my parents arrived on the scene, and my dad finished fixing the tire, letting the nice man get back to his work. We put everything back together, and headed to school. So much for a normal monday morning.