Part 2 of
The Little Pink Bike: From China with Love
So, I had to get a new debit card because my previous one wasn't scanning anymore. A new card with a new number. GIECO was taking automatic payments from a credit card I didn't have. The bill doesn't even come to my house, it goes to pop's crib. So not only was I riding for months uninsured, but on a suspended license! I didn't know till I got a pink letter at their house. So even during part one, if I'd had gotten pulled over I would have been thrown in jail! I work late nights and I don't wanna get pulled over by bored pigs.
It's MANDATORY 30 days.
So I gotta pay for the insurance FIRST,
then the license, then the reinstatement, the state fees, the OTHER fees, reinstate my tags. All in all it was about 480 to get just the car legal again. I paid to get my car legal and insured, and waited to pay the other $200x2 to reinstate my own license.
I had a girlfriend who stayed another 30 minutes from me, lets call her Beatrice. We hadn't spoken in a while, but, I donno I can make her a temporary chauffer. She'd spent the night before, and my mom knows of her and likes what she hears about her. So we linked up. I explained my situation and told her I needed her to drive me to ONLY my night job, from around 11:00 to 3:00 AM in MY car. It's a 30-40 minute walk from my house, but why walk when you got a car right? Plus I've let her drive my car before and I thought it was kinda cool. To let ya girl drive ya whip, you know? I mean, I kinda liked this girl and she's a top 5 overall.
The first time, things went smooth. I pick her up around 11:15 and I give her the key to my room. She know I got a room mate, she know how to work my tv. She got the wifi in her phone. She'll drop me off at my night job and wait in my house until I get off. The second time I drove with her into charleston to my dayjob from 2-11pm. She got mad I didn't give her the keys. I gave her some $$$ to have a good time downtown until I get off work. I wasn't giving her my car for 8 hours though. She found a way back home when I got off work. So I took a chance that night. Another day she texts me and asks if I needed a driver. I thought she was trying to 'make up' with me
but she had other plans.
I drove to work with a full tank, and all tires checked for fuel pressure. The inside was CLEAN. My last oil check was a few weeks ago. New front tires, timing belt. This car still had a lot of fight in it. WELL... The second night I had her drop me off, she was gonna wait in my house. I get off at three so I text her around 2:45 to remindher. I clock out and I'm chillin in the building. I text her "honk the horn twice so I know you there." I get nothing.
So I call.... and I call.... text again and I call.... At 3:25 she finally picks up.
YO!?! (*waiting for response*) ..... Where you at?
... What time is it?
LOOK AT YOUR DAMN PHONE, the time's right there! Come get me!
... I'm sick.
SICK? GIRL! ........... You in MY FUCKIN HOUSE!!! Driving MY FUCKING CAR!!!!
OK now see, all that cussin ain't called for.
At
that moment, I almost went full red pill MGTOW. But I had to get right, because she is in my house, with my keys... And my stuff. So I say "
well I'm right here so get over here now please thanks bye." If I had a Nokia phone I woulda threw that shit on the ground as soon as I hit End Call. I'm cursing up a storm in a secluded parking lot.
Now it's damn near 3:45, and my house is a 5 minute drive. I get ready to start walking. Right where the parking lot meets the street I hear the WORST SOUNDING NOISE to ever come from a car. I say..... "Who da hell is THAT?" This girl pulls up in my car with the wost engine noise imaginable. Imagine cranking a dead lawnmower. One of you niggas onthis board put a hex on me. Cuz I sounded just like my daddy when I said to that bitch
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY CAR?!?
I don't even know it's just...
JUST WHAT? Is this why I been callin and callin and you never picked up?!?
I told you I was sick!
BUUUULLLLL!!!
(*wait for it*)
SHIIIIIIT! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO? WHERE DID YOU GO?!?
She's speachless, I'm pissed. Good thing it was late night because I would've gotten arrested for sure. Because I cranked it up, and drove forward and my car was BARELY moving forward. Every bit of has, the knock noise would get louder and louder. I look in my backseat and there are shoe prints. Who df else was in my car? Feul tank close to E. Then, the car shuts down in the street.
I start bangin on the steering wheel and I look at her. She got scared and opened her door like she was goona run. I tell her wait, everything's ok, lemme just look at it and everything will be fine. Popped the hood and the engine was steamy, battery corrosion, and heavy engine knock. I also saw my car wasn't so clean, the tires were lighter, and someone was definately in my backseat. When we got back in the car, the transmission was stuck between drive and overdrive. I couldn't chose either, just stuck in between KILLING my engine and transmission. We make it home.
I woke her up the next day and say
"Your ride is here!"
My ride? Who?
Your UBER! I gotchu a guy named Johnny in a Carolla and he's gonna get you home safely!
She was pissed, make no doubt about it. Because I was rejecting her, kicking her out, AND doing it in a nice way. She even knocked over my favorite little pirate ship I bought from Goodwill. She knew I used to talk about it alot, and that's why she knocked it off my television.
I bring my old man by the next day
"Boy, you got a blown rod bearing, which toar UP dat engine. But it's no use getting a $700 engine replacement from LKQ because you also have a destroyed transmission. Oil is leaking and there is a HUGE dent under your car. You must have hit something hard pretty fast... (*Pause*). You looking at a $2500 problem son. Parts and labor. So figure out if your car is even worth that to fix. How you getting to work tonight anyway? Your cousin gonna take you?"
Now how the fuck am I supposed to get to work. I would ask my roommate, but he's still acting iffy with me. He just basically doesn't fuck with me, even though I do everything in the house. None of my homeboys is gonna give me a lift that late so, the only thing I got to ride is....
Stay tuned for part 3.