Not much new to talk about today. I went to mom and dad's to get their neighbor's windshield fixed. Well I went to pay the guy who was going to fix it for me. Problem was he didn't fix it. So now these poor people have been out of a car for four days now and tomorrow it will be five. Home dude the car fixer guy said he was going to go to the junk yard to get a windshield for it on Monday, but that didn't happen. Then he says he will have it all done by the time I got off of work today. That didn't happen either. He wasn't even in the neighborhood when I got there.
So I started calling around to windshield places and getting quotes for the thing. $213-$285 installed. Most places even want you to bring the car in yourself. Problem is the car wasn't legal to drive. So Home dude finally gets home, and I get to bug him a little bit about it. He is now going to the junk yard in about two or three days. CRAP!
So I make a deal with home dude. I tell him the cheapest I could find a windshield new was for $213. If he would take $150 from me to do the whole damn thing, (getting windshield from junk yard, getting installation kit, and installing windshield). He talk to the people and let them know he was paid for his services and I get to walk away from the whole thing. He jumped at that idea. He can buy a windshield at a junk yard for about 25 bucks. Then there is the install kit, and his labor. He makes out in the long run. He has to talk to the people who own the car for me too though. I don't speak fluent spanish and he does. There is no way I could communicate with them about the arrangement speaking the miniscule amounts of spanish that I do speak.
I feel bad about breaking the damn thing, but accidents happen. What can I say? I have an awesome throw to lob that softball as far as I did and break the thing. My mamma gave me props on my throwing abilities. Gotta love mamma.
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