So I was enjoying an uneventful Monday with some administration crap to keep me occupied. Sopel called me and offered to bring by the shop some fresh, good coffee. Ten minutes later he calls me back and asks if I have spare wheel nuts.....I hate questions like that. So he tells me he's 2 blocks away at Braid and Columbia and his wheel fell off 
. So I grab some spare parts and drive over to lend a hand. I find him sitting on 3 wheels on the corner just off the intersection and the ever so confused drivers failing to go around him. So I park behind, hazards on, open the back and get the tools. Of course the old nuts are long gone and I find out the tire managed to launch off the truck and roll across the street into a gas pump and break the handle on it - Thank God nobody was there and Sopel was not going faster then 5 Kph. While I'm jacking up the truck Sopel is checking the rest of the wheel and it turns out all of them are loose. In the morning he went to a shop to get the wheels rotated and......well they did a good job. So while we're putting on the now recovered tire, the Chevron employee watching over us so Sopel can fill out some paper work, a large Frito Lay delivery truck turns right and snags my top hatch on his side. A nice 3 foot gouge in the aluminum sheet and a bend corner on my rear hatch and he's wondering why I'm swearing at him and yelling for him to stop 
. So I had to guide him back and extract my rear hatch from his truck, some more swearing on my behalf and a dumb excuse like "I still had space from your bumper", exchange info and get Sopel to move again.
I hate Mondays, well Sopel is fine, the truck needs all new studs all around and nuts, has some gouges in the wheel that went flying, and the drum has some scratches as well - good times.
. So I grab some spare parts and drive over to lend a hand. I find him sitting on 3 wheels on the corner just off the intersection and the ever so confused drivers failing to go around him. So I park behind, hazards on, open the back and get the tools. Of course the old nuts are long gone and I find out the tire managed to launch off the truck and roll across the street into a gas pump and break the handle on it - Thank God nobody was there and Sopel was not going faster then 5 Kph. While I'm jacking up the truck Sopel is checking the rest of the wheel and it turns out all of them are loose. In the morning he went to a shop to get the wheels rotated and......well they did a good job. So while we're putting on the now recovered tire, the Chevron employee watching over us so Sopel can fill out some paper work, a large Frito Lay delivery truck turns right and snags my top hatch on his side. A nice 3 foot gouge in the aluminum sheet and a bend corner on my rear hatch and he's wondering why I'm swearing at him and yelling for him to stop . So I had to guide him back and extract my rear hatch from his truck, some more swearing on my behalf and a dumb excuse like "I still had space from your bumper", exchange info and get Sopel to move again. I hate Mondays, well Sopel is fine, the truck needs all new studs all around and nuts, has some gouges in the wheel that went flying, and the drum has some scratches as well - good times.
Okay, double Bugger. I sure Mondays and Yotas don't go together. I have it on good word they shot this commercial on a Monday: 
