Post #309659 by Mai Tai on Tue, May 29, 2007 6:28 PM

I was bummed that Coco Loco and I couldn't make it. We were the last ones to finish our lamp over at Monkeyman's place, and we were hanging out talkin' story with Derek while waiting for the lamp to dry. It was taking forever, and we eventually had to take a hair dryer to it. After it was dry enough, Derek packaged it up for us, we headed back to Al's place, and cleaned up and got all dressed up for the Tonga Hut show.

And lo and behold, our car battery had died! No soup for us! Double bummer because there was another special event that we had been invited to, and had to end up missing both. All of the auto parts stores were already closed, and we had to call AAA to jump start the car. The battery in our car has been acting up lately, and I was afraid to drive up to Hollywood without jumper cables. The AAA agent said that they could sell us a new battery, but when the tow truck driver showed up, he was stinkin' drunk! He wasn't an officially sanctioned AAA driver, and didn't have any batteries, and when he radio'ed in our request, they said that they weren't taking any credit cards or checks over the weekend. And I wasn't about to give drunk tow truck guy cash, and then wait all night to get stiffed!

So we decided to call it a night, and instead of going to the Tonga Hut, we stayed in at Al's, which is also a great place, and I read a cool book about Fiji.