April Fool

Hello,
Ha, Ha. Got ya------it's not April Fool's today. I'm only one day behind, but if Missy Linda is always in charge, it will probably get worse. She didn't even turn on the computer for me yesterday! April Fool on me! There she goes again, just thinking of herself all the time. You should have heard her whining yesterday. I might have been just as well off being head first down in a shopping bag again rather than having to listen to her. Here's how it went:

The first thing when she got up, she was hollering about The Old Man having thrown up on her bed. (That was hilarious!) What I can't figure out is, how did the cat know that it was April Fool's day? There's so much I still don't understand about humans and pets. Of course, she was already cranky because it was really early when she got up. She had a bunch of work to get done and a looming deadline. Evidently, things in the work department were going along all right for a few hours, but then things started going downhill again.

As Tio Kane was leaving for an appointment, he called Missy Linda to tell her that she had a flat tire. Missy Linda said that she knew that it was not a joke because Tio Kane doesn't play jokes like that. She was correct; it was not a joke. By then, it was getting close to time for Missy Linda to get to class. It became apparent that she would not be able to get there, so she went back to trying to finish her work on time. She was annoyed with missing class because there were some papers due that day, and she had worked hard to get all the work finished. She had the required number of copies of everything all ready to go. She was glad that she would not be penalized for handing them in the next class time, though, or she would have walked to class. (Yeah, right.)

She called Mr. Nick to make arrangements for him to drop by after work to help her with putting on the spare tire. (He is her other son.) She just needed some instruction to get this job done-----or so they thought. A few minutes putting on the spare tire, and then Missy Linda could just run to the tire place and get the bad tire fixed-----right? Wrong.

In the meantime, Missy Linda borrowed Tio Kane's car when he got home. She had to run out to her boss's house to pick up something that she had forgotten the day before. She was glad that the low fuel light was blinking only a few miles before she made it to the gas station. Running out of gas would have ruined her day!

Missy Linda was all pooped out by then since she had missed a lot of sleep the last couple of days------you know, the tornado and then work. She did take a nap for about an hour. Mr. Nick did come over when he got off work, and they started to take care of the flat tire. You should have been there------it was so funny! I am definitely not laughing at Mr. Nick, he was just a victim of circumstance. I am laughing at Missy Linda because that's what I do for entertainment, and she gives me so many opportunities for enjoyment.

So they were out on the driveway, and they got the spare out from under the car just fine. The place that the jack had to be placed under Missy Linda's Rodeo is way underneath the car in a hard to reach spot. Mr. Nick crawled under there, and got the jack set. After getting the car jacked up, Mr. Nick was jumping on the tire tool handle to get the nuts loosened. It had been awhile since Missy Linda had bought new tires, so things were really set. He jumped hard enough to knock the Rodeo off the jack, but fortunately the car did not roll or anything. However, the jack was wedged at an angle between the driveway and the frame of the car. It took a while to get a jack big enough to raise the car high enough to get the first jack loose since Missy Linda's car is an SUV and the other cars were regular cars. (The jacks for the smaller cars don't have to lift as high.) After all that, they could not get the wheel off the car! All the lug nuts were off, the tire was off the ground, and they could not budge that wheel one iota! They even used a small sledge hammer. By then, Mr. Nick was taking it personally, so he tried a while longer. Finally, they put the nuts back on, took out the jack, put the spare in the back of the car, and decided to form a plan for today. They made a few phone calls last evening, so I think they have some things to try today. This could be fabulously funny! Mind you, I don't want them to get hurt, but Missy Linda can come up with the weirdest ideas----you cannot even imagine! I can hardly wait!