Thursday, June 01, 2006

Dazed and Confused!

This morning I get a note from the hubby to pick up an oil filter and oil. Okay, easy enough got it covered or so I thought. My first stop was Walmart, cause well you know, you can get everything at Walmart right. The hub asked specificly for a Fram oil filter ph 3980, went right to it no problem, next thing on list get 5 quarts of Trop Artic 10w 40 (isn't Trop Artic a snowmobile) anyway they sell it and about 20 other brands of oil but not Trop Artic 10w 40. In my experience when the hub wants something specific you get it. Not wanting to see his Irish and German ancestry wig out in the balging veins on his forhead if I came home with the wrong thing, I felt compelled to ask the only person around for help, the girl behind the tire counter, after looking for herself and not finding it she says "no mam we don't have that , may I suggest Fleet Farm they might sell it". So I checked Fleet Farm (no luck) thenI try K-mart( the brother-in-law always says if you can't find something anywhere else K-mart always has it) . Yah right! just as I suspected no friggin Trop Artic 10w 40 to be found what the %#$@ is this some kind of phantom grade of motor oil or what, and for that matter isn't oil-oil, I mean come on, out of all those brands of yellow, green, blue, black and white packaged oil not one other one would do? he sends me for the only kind they don't have. By this time I'm quite festered and the 20 oz vanilla cappuccino I slammed after I dropped the youngest off at school, was knockin at the back door somethin fierce, so I called the house several times to ask what I should do and of course he does'nt answer the phone cause he is sleeping from working the overnight shift. After a few choice words directed toward the hub (I'll have to make up for later) and nature callin ( I have an aversion to dumping in public toilets; its a long story) I flew home with just an oil filter. I know I am going to catch hell for this cause he wanted to change the oil when he got up and now he's going to have to get the oil himself which means a trip back in to town. All I can say in deffense of myself is I'm not a friggin mechanic, when it comes to car stuff I am clueless, to me they are just a steering wheel, four tires, a seat for my ass and a horn to let other drivers know how stupid they are...... I do have to say though; now I know how he feels when I send him for tampons and panty liners.....(Hun I think where even)

5 Comments:

Blogger Blondie said...

My greatest sympathies go out to you honey. My hub does the same thing to me. I am also clueless about cars and figure one oil is just as good as the next, Men in general are anal about their cars and I guess they should just get the stuff themselves. Good luck when he wakes up. Maybe give him a kiss or something and tell him he is the greatest?!? It sometimes works for me.
Talk to ya soon. Check the blogspot for a couple of new posts.
Blondie

9:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well dear I give you credit, you did give it your best shot and i'am proud of that, I knew they sold it at wal mart just like i said, just like the 5 qts I came out with of trop artic 10w 40, I guess you need to ask the right person, and go that extra mile. I was not mad when i got up eather was i. love ya lots dear!!! hub

12:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anna that is hilarious!! Though I think you got the Kmart part wrong...Kruze always says he hates Kmart because every time he goes there they never have what he needs..one time he needed paper clips...he took a chance on Kmart cause it was closest to him...guess what...no freakin' paper clips its pathetic...but kinda funny.

I love your story though ya got me laughin my buns off!!

5:21 AM  
Blogger Blondie said...

ANNA,
Where have you been? I miss you. Check my site for new postings. Miss ya and love ya girl. Hope everything is cool with you and yours.
Blondie

5:13 AM  
Blogger Leann said...

let me say I will be careful not to read your funny ones when I need to go to the little girls room.I just about wet my pants laughing.you have away with words too.thanks for the good laugh.I love this blog stuff.beats watching the dumb boob tub any day.love mom

4:38 PM  

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