I dropped my car off at the body shop today.
Enterprise saw fit to give me an econobox Hyundai rental. The car in and of itself is okay – it sure sits a lot higher than my car. Which makes for interesting cornering at 75mph.
I digress.
The interesting thing about the rental is that it has Sirius/XM radio.
The less interesting thing about Sirius/XM radio is that it’s really not that much better than regular radio. You’re still pretty much at the mercy of whomever does the programming.
I settled on the “Lithium” station – for no other reason that the first song I heard was “I See The Light” by Cracker. I like(d) Cracker back in the day. Needless to say, the Lithium channel is dedicated to whatever happened to rule the airwaves back in the 90’s. I felt like I was in a timewarp – I was hating Candlebox and Temple of the Dog all over again. Sure, sure, they played some good songs, but since everything was more or less 20 (!) years old at this point, it sounded pretty dated.
Granted, I didn’t have the hazy fog, nor the alcohol to help me like the songs any better this time around.
The body shop already called me and said that the part is in and will be painted tomorrow – keeping the three day estimate in check. Which is actually pretty amazing. Back in the day you’d be praying that the body shop would have your car less than a month.
Luckily, it’s easy to slap a bumper on.
In other news, I had a guy (who appeared to be straight) tell me that my sideburns were sexy. I was buying another wireless PCI card at Fry’s and the guy is like, “Man, those are some good looking sideburns. Don’t see them like that much anymore.”
Me: “Uh, yeah. Thanks.”
Him: “Yeah, they’re pretty sexy allright.”
Me: “Uh, yeah. Thanks.”
He also gave me a fist dap when I told him I wasn’t high.
This is a twilight zone kind of day.
