I haven’t done a day review in a while and yesterday was entertaining. Plus JKash said he likes these types of posts and I appease the audience.
I left work a little early to get a hair cut from Mario’s. People think it’s odd that I drive all the way to Mario’s and I don’t disagree. The thing is that I’ve been going there for 25 years and it’s ingrained in my to give them my business. It’s not even that the hair cut is that great (I think Nick is the best), I just like the people. So there are people waiting and they must not have been waiting for Mario as he took me right away. He’s 80 years old now and I’m not sure if he would know the difference if he was cutting my hair or the plant on the window sill. Either way we make small talk and he tells this joke that I could barely hear and I laughed just because. I pretty much always think the barber is telling a joke when they talk. He doesn’t cut the front of my hair and I don’t have the heart to tell him that I’d like him to, you know, cut my hair. He’s been cutting hair for 60 years so I didn’t want to offend him. He’s Mario for god sake.
After the barber I drive to the local running shoe store where I once again, like to give my business. I’ve known the owner since high school. I was the first “intern” when we did whatever the program was in high school that I can’t remember what it’s called. I used to lace shoes, drop the mail off, and walk slowly to get lunch. So I tried on a few shoes and bought the Altra’s that I think would work best. We were making small talk and I asked her about her website and if she’d like to start selling online. She said she did and I told her I would set it up for her for nothing. Why? I don’t know exactly. I think I can do a good job is the reason. So I spend $170 on some shoes and accessories and head onward.
I don’t need a new car, but I wanted to see if I wanted a new car. So I go to the Acura dealership. I walk in and there is a car salesman in front and I say, “let’s get to work.” I’m not sure either of us knew what that meant. So he takes my info and we go out to see a 2018 TLX. He’s explaining all these gadgets with the new car and I didn’t give a shit. We test drive it and he’s once again telling me how great it is that it keeps you in the lane automatically and how you don’t have to put your foot on the brake. The car is working toward driving itself. I honestly, once again, didn’t give a shit. So we get done the test drive and he says I’ll be right back with the numbers. They make me wait for 10 minutes which I was not amused by because I had to leave a 6:10 to get JKash and it was 5:58. He comes back with a number and showed me it lists for 37k and they were knocking off 5k in “savings”. They were giving me 7k for my car which seemed reasonably fair for the trade in. The number came to $430 a month or something and I said “there is a 0% chance I’m leaving here with a car.” He didn’t like this reply and got his sales manager who sat down and asked the same, “what can we do to get you to leave here today with a car”. I said, “nothing”. So we parted ways.
I picked up JKash because we were meeting the Shee in Manayunk. I was running late which I hate because of that damn salesman. We meet the Shee at Ryan’s, a bar Sam showed me, and the draft was going on. It was typical. Then Jon was excited for a trip down memory lane at Mad River so we went there. There were literally 0 customers there at 9:30pm. We sat down and drank some $2 Bud Lights. The crowd trickled in, but mostly underwhelming. The 22 year old bartender was the highlight of the night as they are still hiring dimes. We shot the shit for a while and called it a night around 1am.
All in all, it was as I wrote earlier, an entertaining day.
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