weekend

A lady's car broke down in front of our house. We were sitting on the front porch having a beer with a couple of neighbours, so we cheerfully watched the scene. The car made alarming screech noises as the woman turned the ignition. Hopeless. She then sat down on neighbour Paul's garden bench and gave up. So we waved a bottle of beer and invited her over. Of course it was an SUV, and of course it was parked way wrong, so we poked fun at that. Fortunately it wasn't her car, and it turned out we had met before at some party. She hadn't far to go, just a few blocks up the street. We had our beers as cars started honking. Neighbour Rick waved them through, lots of space, lots of space! Come on, we had a tractor trailer come through, if a tractor trailer can do it, you can do it! People were annoyed with the SUV half blocking the road. But it was quite good actually, it beautifully slowed down traffic. The lady, I now think she was called Margaret, but she probably wasn't, waited for the CAA to show, but it took an awful long time. In the end neighbour Rick decided to get his Terminator tool that he got at Canadian Tire, it can boost the battery or something. And it worked, so on her way she was. And back twenty minutes later, with an enormous pitcher of Margarita's! I got the lawn chairs out and we had a totally shameless party on our front lawn. Long after Margaret had gone, the CAA guy showed up, but Rick took care of him. And then I made dinner for everybody that we ate in neighbour Rick's back yard. And there is a typical South Riverdale weekend for you, aren't we all glad it's spring and the sun is out!