I'm down.
There's a Beetle salvage yard, hugh from what I understand, about an hour away from here. Too far to go in my rickety old van. But I've been dying to go for a while now.
So I was looking at carrentals.com and found a really cheap weekend rate! I thought "Great! I'll rent a car for a day and we can go down to the salvage yard!" I mean, after all...Steve had to work the Household Pollution Collection Event this weekend...what could he have to do NEXT weekend? So I reserved the car and emailed Steve, saying "Look at this great rate! We can go to Bristow!"
He wrote me back...can't go.
Blue Thumb Creek Clean-up.
Sigh.
It's a volunteer thing, kinda where the city "expects" you to volunteer. They don't pay you, but they give you "comp time", which I have yet to see.
I know it's probably silly, but I'm so disappointed. I mean, I hardly ever see him during the week, I look forward to weekends so much, then last weekend the city makes him work all weekend (which I don't complain too much because it is overtime) but then they make him work again this weekend!
I know, I sound like a whiner. And I'm probably being irrational. I guess I probably shouldn't have gotten my hopes up without asking him first. But you gotta move fast with those cheap rates...they change hourly.
Well, hopefully he'll take his comp time soon and take you down there.