not normal..

As from yesterday's post, my car is dying. Today, this is what happened...

7am: woke up. did the usual wake up routine, and then had breakfast. wrote an email to my supervisor saying I'll be late.
8am: "drove" the car to the mechanics. This means pushing the gas pedal and not going faster than 10km/h... Lucky it wasn't too busy on the roads just yet. Nobody there. asked the servo attendant. Usually opens at 8. wait in car.
8:15am: Mechanic Apprentice rocks up in his yellow combi. Asks me whats the problem, I tell him, he diagnoses it's a gone cylinder. However, tells me to wait till boss arrives.
8:45am: boss arrives, I tell him the same, he tells me the same, I'm running on 3 cylinders. I leave the keys and I go catch the train.
8:59am: I get a quote on the ticket by pressing the station and pressing 'day return'. $6. that's pretty expensive!
9:01am: I redid the procedure. $3.60. much better. I buy a ticket.
9:20am: train arrives, travelling
9:45am: train arrives to the station where I gotta change trains.
9:46am: I leave the train, go down the concourse, find the timetable, it says the connecting train leaves in 1 minute on platform 6, I run up platform 6, and the train has just gone.
9:50am: sat down and baked in the sun for about 16 minutes.
10:10am: the connecting train arrives. yay.
10:15am: arrives at the station close to work. I walk 15 mins through the park.
10:30am: arrive at work, meet everybody, and they all asked how my car was since I emailed. worked hard for 1.5 hours wrapping up pallets.
12:00: had lunch for an hour.
1:00pm: return to my normal duties.
4:30pm: all the couriers decide to rock up. So I put 12 pallets on B, 8 on C, and I don't know how many for TNT, but they actually remembered to pick up the trailer before 5pm!
5:15pm: finished with all the couriers for the day, and colleague bought a TV, so loaded him up as well. Also asked him if he can give me a ride home since we're on the same street (possibly not now since he's married... maybe he's moved).
5:30pm: finished off what I can, and then went with colleague home.
5:45pm: driving through the surburbs, we were suddenly surprised by smoke on the road. I thought it was a car at first, but when we looked, a house was on fire. There was thick billowing smoke coming out. We decided to drive onto the footpath, and asked if anything was helpable. Like if anybody needs help or something. some woman screams that her baby was in there or something, but it turned out to be a dog or cat. and then 5 mins later the fire brigade rocks up. We decided to leave then since it's not good being onlookers.
6:00pm: got home. Then walked to the mechanics, the car wasn't ready yet, he's done a service on it. I think it'll be expensive... >:( I'm really starting to focus on what I'm looking for in a car, when we do fix it or something.

Then the usual of bumming around in front of the computer for the rest of the evening after dinner and all that. So it was quite a bit of excitement really. I gotta go work at 7am though... so need to sleep. And then get a ride with my colleague till the car's fixed or something.

Ah I can't wait to get a "better" car.