Well, as much as I love living, there are days that Life reminds me that it has a morbid sense of humor at times. Tuesday night I took my math final and was feeling pretty accomplished. I finished my first semester of college as a medium-aged person with a 4.0 GPA, I don't start my summer theme park baking tenure until Memorial Day weekend, and I was looking forward to a couple weeks of gardening and rest.
Sure. Yep. How bout no.
Yesterday, I spent the whole day doing farm work. Installing weed barrier, transplanting starts, seeding things, and I was super content in doing so. In the early evening I enjoyed a lovely homemade taco, beans, and rice dinner with the boy, the hubs, and the Peasant (my son's friend who was bestowed his nickname in our first D&D campaign together), when all of sudden we got a phone call.
It was our daughter, and she was a bit hysterical.
The Squeak is a trained CNA and EMT, she doesn't get hysterical.
But anyone would if they were driving through town and their tire suddenly, without warning, shot off into traffic.
Thankfully, the tire missed hitting anyone as it sling-shotted its way through evening rush hour traffic. Even more thankfully, my daughter and her best friend weren't harmed in the slightest.
However, my daughter's SUV, that's a sadder tale.
By the time we got the SUV towed to our house (YAY triple A!), we, along with the tow truck driver, noticed that one of the studs had sheered completely off and all of the bolts were stripped. My daughter just had her winter tires swapped out before heading home from college at a local tire shop, and it looks like they over-torqued them, which led to a complete catastrophe.
So, now we get to go on a journey. She is on the phone with the tire company right now. I am hoping they do the right thing and fix the issue, but as a somewhat experienced at these sort of things adult, I have a feeling that insurance companies and lawyers will probably get involved. I sure hope I am wrong.
Sigh.
Thankfully, we have a herd of vehicles, and will be able to get everyone too and from work this summer. I just feel bad for my kiddo, it's a hard lesson to learn, that Life loves to visit in the most unpredictable ways. I mean, tires shooting off into traffic don't happen every day! So maybe the incident is like an omen of more weird and wild things to come.
Me, I just wanted to start basil and smell hyacinths.
Guess I will just do both!
Because as anyone who's transited the sun a few times knows, as the elder lyricist of the Rolling Stones once crooned, You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.