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Disclaimer: This might be a touchy subject for some and I'm deliberatly throwing some offensive stuff in here for the sake of humor. My question is honest though so I hope I don't offend anyone.
Dad (Scott) and I were driving back to Batavia today and we passed a guy pulled over on the side of the road. The hood of his car was up and he had a very upset and frazzled look on his face. We made a joke that it was a shame that "he" wasn't an attractive "she" and kept driving. Then a thought occoured to me, I've stopped and helped women who had a flat tire or had car problems. I've stopped and helped elderly people too, but a single guy (or a car full, I don't care) I will just drive by.
Now my first inclination is that helping women or the elderly is chivalrous of me, however, could it be misconstrued as sexest??? For the sake of arguement lets take the elderly out of the equation and just say it's men or women.
Stereotypically a "real" man should be able to do certain things on/with cars. Basic problem diagnosis, changing oil and tires, checking fluids, etc. On the flip side women aren't usually granted the benefit of the doubt in the same situations, right? Now we all know that isn't entirely true, Rose knows how to change the oil in the car/truck, so do, I'm sure, some of you reading.
So all that being said, is it sexist of me to just assume that if a woman is having car problems that she needs a mans (such as myself) help? Honestly I have to say it is.
Now this is just a hypothetical situation but lets say I'm driving down the road and I pass a guy with a flat tire. He has no frikking clue on how to put the spare on but I don't know that, I just drive. A mile further down the road there is a woman with a flat tire. I stop to help her but she already knows how and is in the process of pulling the jack out etc. I continue on down the road, pleased with myself for at least trying to do a good deed but I leave the guy waiting for AAA (or CAA for our friends north of the border, hi Dave and G!!!) even though that will make him late for his boyfriends debut on the tranny stage at the local gay bar.
I don't know for sure but yes, I'm leaning towords sexist.
Not that it will stop me from helping in the future mind you, but it's just something I wanted some input on from my blogging friends.
But we went to the bar. I enjoyed myself. Came home and slept for a few hours. Went and picked up my car. Went and slept for another billion hours.
Bdub's tonight? And maybe a show? Sounds like a plan.
A long weekend to begin with turned longer around the corner unexpected with snowy delights and tires coming off of the Toyota Dolphin while on I10 heading out of Las Cruces this morning towards home. El Paso and south has been snowed upon and last night we chose to stay here rather than head home, which was followed by the rim shearing off all of the lug nuts on the left rear tires that held up that portion of the camper thus enabling to be mobile. This, quite obviously, rendered us impotent and stranded.
HOWEVER, well, the round started from Alpine Wednesday morning, leaving out much later than desired, heading north.... Slept in Rockhound State Park that night, and left out for the Gila Wilderness the next day. A long journey that is, two hours by state estimates, quite a bit longer in a small motorhome... That evening ended at the town of Gila Hot Springs, situated within the Wilderness and home to a small RV campsite with wonderful hot "geothermally heated" water with which I bathed after a sumptious Thanksgiving repast of steak cooked in wine and pepper. The next night we headed back towards the parks outer borders and camped down a gravel road around a corner and up a hill... We awoke to the most luscious snow.... This was after getting lost the night before... Lost... on foot... in the woods.... Seriously lost.... Scary lost... remind me to tell you about it....
For tonight, I am back in Las Cruces and praying ferverently that the gentleman who has the camper can and will fix it in the morning first thing. He has to get back to work, and so do I... But I AM grateful. And thankful.
Many things that could have gone wrong did not. We did not stay lost in the woods longer than an hour (we took a ten minute hike that went horribly awry... and I didn't take any water... we weren't going that far.. and sun was setting... One of the more frightening lapses of intelligence I've had). The rim did not come off in the middle of nowhere, as it could have... considering that most of our journey takes us through uninhabited (for hours) stretches.... The RV pulled off the freeway for me simply and without fuss, rather than blowing out and knocking us into another traveller... We found an open tow company that had the right kind of truck.... They found a person who thinks he can fix the rim and the lug nuts no problem, and will start on it tomorrow... I had enough money (so far) to get the things done.... The Sunday tow job and trip to the hotel and drop off of the vehicle was only 115, much less than anticipated.... I did not die a horrible death in a vehicle or in the woods...
So, yeah... This weekend has been LONG... And it isn't over yet... I'm in a hotel on his laptop brought to finish work he couldn't do because we didn't make it home as I tippity type... But I'm thankful... To the core.....
So I've been gone for awhile. I've been filling in for people and working alot recently. Sorry I've left everyone so in the dark.
Things have been interesting lately. Other than work I've had a few issues to go through. None of them have been anything too terrible, but they've been far too constant for my peace of mind. Now I've just about had it. The latest issue happened, or was discovered, this morning. My dad and uncle were discussing man issues in our driveway this morning when my uncle noticed that my back tire was going flat. Dad checked it and refilled the air in it. Once he was done Uncle James told him to make sure it wouldn't go flat on me while I was at work. So dad did his thing and found.....nothing. So you may ask why I had a tire going flat if their was no hole? They asked the same question. The only answer they could come up with was that someone had let some air out of my tire. Now the question was who? Dad wants to pin it on a guy that works in the mall with me, but either way someone has been messing with my car. So that was the snapping point of my day. Between working, dealing with complete asses, and having just an all around bad week, coming home to have Dad tell me that someone I see everyday wants me to be stranded alone at 10:00 at night in a deserted parking lot is not something I want to hear.
How in the world do I do it? How is it that out of all the people in this world I seem to attract the nutsy ones? No offense to the people who are reading this-and rolling their eyes. :)
Anywhoo! That's all my brain can handle right now. I'll write more tomorrow. Everyone have a good night!
Nothing too exciting going on here, but a lot of 'busy work' here at my house.
On Saturday we had a kiddie birthday party to attend, which was fun. I've never seen so many kids at a party!
My parents flew into town this week for a visit, and arrived on Sunday around 1:30 a.m. Ha ha I made my husband pick them up at the airport, as I was too tired. Unfortunately, I found out that night that I had a flat tire and the next morning had to put on the spare, ugh!
Sunday was Alex's birthday party at the park, and so I was busy picking up the cake, ordering the pizza, getting the sodas, chips, goodie bags, decorations, etc., etc., ready for Sunday afternoon. All in all, the party was very nice and we had a good turnout. Next year though, I think I'll have it at the house.
Today it was off to the gym to keep my appointment with my trainer. Then I had to take the car into the shop to fix the tire, among other things; take mom to a used book store (where Alex proceeded to pull books off the shelf); and make dinner for the family. Busy, busy day!
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