I literally stopped rush hour traffic

headed home from work yesterday I took my exit off 183 and am in stop and go traffic idling waiting for the light and all of a sudden my car just quits. Lights come on, it is no longer "on", I couldn't restart it, it was D-E-A-D, and I am totally blocking traffic. After I slightly panicked and tried to push it off the road - dorkus here tried to push in while it was in park. After a few minutes I put it into neutral and pushed it off the road, about half way off the road a guy stopped and helped me. Somewhere in all that I called my trusty hero - David Brown! He was a mile or so away and came to rescue me. Then before Dave get there a cop shows up. I am not really pro-cop but he was ok. David then tried to jump the car thinking it was the alternator. But nope, it wouldn't start. So then the cop uses his car and pushes it to a parking lot. That sure was a weird feeling being pushed in my car around a curve and across traffic. David was then super sweet and invited me out to dinner with the family to celebrate Geneva's bday and said we'd come get the car after that. At that point my brain was totally swirly and I really couldn't think at all. After a great dinner at Fresh Choice we went back to my car, it started, and he drove it to his house with no problem. Crazy, eh? I currently have Dave's butt huge truck which he was so massively kind to lend me. That truck is absolutely huge but I've been really careful and am doing fine with it. I got to work early today so I wouldn't have too far to go in the parking garage and tried not to wipe out too many cars. I didn't have much clearance above the roof and at times wondered if I'd look back and see I was pulling the garage down behind me but I think I survived. I then tried to park it at Hype Park Grill for dinner with a friend and literally was sticking out 4-5 feet past the car next to me. AND the car next to me was actually a truck! It's kindof cool driving it though.

So, my car is poopy. Dave is too kind and is going to look at it. Now, you'd think a Dave rescue once in a week is cool/crazy ... but no, that was the 2nd time Dave rescued me in 5 days! Saturday I was getting ready to wash dishes that I had left next to the sink for a few days. (not a normal practice or recommended) And was cleaning out the fridge. I poured a half gallon of old iced tea down the drain and turned around to do something when I hear splashing! I turn back around and am standing in sticky brown liquid! Yes, it was the rotten tea. I look under the sink and it looks like a wild animal has ripped my garbage disposal apart! And so the tea went through the sink straight into the cabinet below and ran out all over the floor. I called my hero Dave and he came over and replaced the garbage disposal after stopping by Home Depot to pick a new one up. I was able to clean up the tea before he got there and all is ok now. I should have photographed that crazy broken disposal though.

Other crazy things have happened this week but nothing overly worthy of writing down. Work is still kindof rough but really, I am fine. I really hope my car is ok. And I hope nothing else TOOO crazy happens for a little while. I excited B and Liz are in Iraq. I guess they decided to go. I am glad tomorrow is friday. And more than that... I am happy to have a cool super hero to rescue me from all my crazy predicaments!