Mondy, April 13 2009

Well, our hero is still out of the office today, I'll have to see how the drive back went tomorrow...it usually makes for an intersting story. Since no FREAKOUTS have occured today (well I'm sure one occured, but probablly somewhere along I-70) I have decided that I will share a story from a past FREAKOUT to keep some interest in Bob here and to keep me in the habit of posting.

I'll call this event "Parking Meltdown #1" It was the first of many parking related "incidents" involving Bob. Our building has a parking garage, like many garages is costs money to park in our garage. Most people prefer a monthly parking pass, however Bob deemed this useless, he preferred to pay on a daily basis. Well, as often happens we needed to run some office related errands that required a vehicle which led to this particular FREAKOUT.

We're a small company and don't have in house computer people, so when one of our computers breaks we need to take it to the computer shop we use. The shop is about a mile or so from the office, which is kind of a long walk when trying to carry a computer. The bossmen asked Bob to drive us to the shop to drop off the computer...he agrees and off we go down to the parking garage..so far so good. All is going nice and smooth until we reach the attendant station. Since we were leaving the garage and had no monthly pass, we'd have to pay the $6 early bird parking fee. That was apparently an unacceptable option, I figured out this was unacceptable after Bob infromed me "this is bull$h&* I'm going back to the garage you're gonna have to figure soemthing else this isn't gonna work!" So before I had a chance to reach for my wallet I was instructed to get out of the car with the computer and that I'd have to walk to the shop or find another way to get the computer there. As soon as my feet hit the pavement, his car is in reverse going back down the ramp. After walking back up to our office and a short discussion with my boss we decide the stress of re-parking and needing to spend $12 for the day is apparently too much for Bob to handle. Another coworker and myself manage to pull together $6 and take her car to the computer shop.....disaster averted.