Lesson Learned

Sorry for the delay from my next post, but I am still recovering from the epic posting on my Iowa City trip. That and I have been delaying posting this because I was peeved at what happen to me that I was debating posting it. Oh well I will post it any way...(it is not as good as you think, not quit a Pat Moment)

Last Friday I had a busy day with getting ready to coordinate an 80,000 Rally Towel giveaway at football the next day, plus I had a hockey game to work that night. I was dressed in my best for the Hockey game, but I had manual labor to do at the stadium with the towels so the day was starting out bad by getting my sports coat and dress clothes dirty. The rest of the day was getting ready for Hockey and working that game my marketing was sub par at best. The music was off, the promotions were not that good, and we lost 4-0. Basically it was a bad day already and after the game it was going to get worst.

After the game some of the interns were going to go out to drink, I decided to come along and have a cold won because after the day I was having I needed one. I did not have time to go home and change so I went out on the town in my sports coat and dress clothes. Normally I would look good but because of the manual labor early in the day and working a stressful hockey game, I looked like bum looking Freddie Prince Jr. Plus we went to college bars in which I was "that guy" who over dresses to try and impress the girls and just looks like a dork. Basically I did look like a dork who was overdressed. So striking out with the ladies was pretty common that night as we came back to my friends house where my car was, I looked around and could not find my car and I just realized that it was towed (I did not think it was stolen because honestly who would steal a Subaru Outback, a gang of soccer moms?). Well my friend knew where the tow place was but I had to go around trying to find an ATM at 3am to take out a lot of cash to pay for my fee. Finally find one and pull up to the tow place and I can see my Subaru in the fenced area, since I was still in my dress clothes I felt like a dad bailing out his son from prison, happy he is safe, but disappointed in him and will be punished later. I soon discovered that only the classiest people are at a tow shop at 3am and I was way over dressed to be here. I could tell that some of the employees in the back of the shop were making fun of me, either for me being in dress clothes this late or it was that they realized I was the person driving the Subaru Outback they towed.

Finally getting my car back for $150, I was so beaten down from the day that I could not get mad at the whole situation, could not yell or make any swears, just was flabbergasted the rest of the night. Fell asleep at about 4am and had to get up at 7am to work football. Basically this was one big lesson learned.