Well, not that I'm being helpful, Buge, but ten miles is a totally walkable distance, that I've learned from experience, it can be a bitch in bad weather, though. Still, it would probably make her day and score you mega points if you went to visit.
As for myself, yesterday was crap. I started by driving the crappy work van in the worst rain we've had in a really long time, and with the thing's windshield wipers, I couldn't see unless I rolled down the window and stuck my head out between strokes, which got me soaking wet. I was going to pick up parts for a job, and the place didn't have the most important one, which made the whole drive a waste of time. Getting to the job, I was stuck in a very shitty, very hot little section between walls in a house for five hours with insulation rubbing against me and giving me a rash, but that's the job so I can't really complain about it. During that time, though, I was getting yelled at by my boss and a customer who I had given the wrong prices for from a job on Monday. My boss had be write up their ticket and neglected to tell me that since they had a contract, they got a major discount on refrigerant.
After the yelling and hole were done with, it was decided I was giving one of the other guys a ride home, to a town that is an hour out of the way of my own trip home. As we set out to leave, at the last second we're given another job to go to. A really really easy one that was extended due to the fact that the guy I was working with is pretty bad at his job and to the point where he was reading the gauges wrong and trying to stop me from doing the only thing I had to do, which also prevented him from doing his job, which I then took up. After another hour on a half hour job, he gets into a yelling match with the owner of the house and we're stuck there for another half hour.
Finally we escape, and on the way to drop him off the transmission starts to fail on the van, not stopping us completely but adding another hour to the total trip. This is a van that not a week ago had the brakes completely fail on me, and now my boss wants me in it again today before a mechanic looks at it again.
