And this is how the story goes.....
Let me just say I had somewhat of an eventful Halloween. I went to a Halloween party that my friend Robyn and her boyfriend were having, which was a little bit of a drive from my house. So I got dressed in my fire fighter costume (pictured above), got all dolled up and and headed over to my friend Natalie's house. I left my car there and headed over to the party with them. It was a blast, they had a DJ, a Martini Ice Luge, Appetizers, Kegs, Wine, and lot's of scary decorations. Anyways, we leave around 12:30am and head back. By the time we get back to Natalie's house, my feet are killing from my, rather high boots, so I take them off and decide to drive home in just my fish net stockings.
I start driving and am about 10 min into my drive when I hear a rather large noise, which I think is the car next to me back firing, when I smell burning rubber...Yep, my front driver side tire blew, not only just went flat, but blew in 2 places. I quick pull over to the side of the road, get out of my car to check the damage out and realize it's 1am and I'm standing on the side of a major highway in a, let's just say rather revealing fire fighter costume..looking like I'm selling myself. Not a good night to get a flat tire. So I get in and call my dad, who's half out of it from taking a sleeping pill, and Natalie, who says she's going to come out with her boyfriend Michael and rescue me. So I make the executive decision to take the nearest exit and park in the Home Depot parking lot and wait (I figured I was a sitting duck on the side of the road to have a cop come get me, especially what I was wearing). So I had only had a few drinks that night, I was definitly fine to drive home, but you never know!
Michael and Natalie get there and we get out and start the process of getting my spare tire on, in the mean time I'm FREEZING, standing in the costume, so I find a bag of clothes in my trunk I was taking to the Salvation Army and put on some pants and flip flops over my fish net tights (yea forget the sexy firefighter, now I looked homeless). We get the spare on and realize that the spare tire is flat. Awesome. It's now about 2am and I have 2 flat tires. So we decide to take the tire off, bring it to a gas station and see if we can fill it up enough to get home. As we drive to find one, we realize we're in a not so nice area, the gas stations have bars over the doors and windows.....only in the story of my Halloween night would something like this happen.
Finally we get the tire on my car, and I start my venture home. A drive that would normally have taken me 30 min took me about 50 because I can only drive 45mph on my spare. So not only am I in a fire fighter costume turned homeless person, I'm now getting dirty looks by people speeding by me because I'm going to slow. Honestly, I must have looked like a complete drunk fool, as a normal drunk driver would over compensate their drunkness by trying to drive so in the speed limit that they were driving slow. Nope, just me with a flat, no big deal cops, please look past the costume and realize I just want to get home!
I finally made it home, in one piece, spare tire, costume, spare clothes and all and got it fixed the next morning! Quite an adventure though. So if you ever see a stranded scantily clad fire fighter standing on the side of the road, don't automatically thing-hooker, please think of it as maybe a very regular, nice girl, having a bout of bad luck, just trying to get home from a fun Halloween night, just in need of a little help from the testosterone ones!
All in all, it was a great weekend...one for the memory books! Bring it on world!
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