ahh the triple a story. okay so i called at 4:30pm friday (apparently lots of people need towtrucks then too).
4:45 i get a call from the tow truck driver dispatch telling me she'll call me back within 15 minutes, to tell me what i'm not quite sure, because they said i'd be waiting for 30 - 60 mins for a truck.
15 mins pass, so i call her, she says sorry she didn't call back and that i'll have to wait for another half an hour.
i'm on the phone with someone else when triple a calls, so i miss the call.
they leave a message about a flatbed won't get there till who knows when, if its okay to tow it with a dolly or something else.
i call back to say yeah fine, just get it to the shop. i get put on hold (mind you i only have 1 battery cell left) for like 7 mins before i hang up and call dispatch.
i call dispatch, get put on hold. she comes back and i tell her about the message and she says she'll tell them.
meanwhile i decide to sit by the side of the road and watch traffic as my head was turned the other way, an empty triple a flatbed tow truck passes me. noo!
okay so i'm waiting and waiting (lots of interesting characters driving around), and so i decide to call to see what's going on. i'm told it will be an hour... great.
a triple a service truck passes me and i throw up my arms like aghh. the guy turned around and came over (though he was driving a normal truck, nothing he could really do, but still...), he says yeah i'm on their list but since i'm getting towed 20 miles, they can't tow me, my order has gotten rerouted, so they have to find someone who can do it. so i thank him, he leaves.
i'm on the phone again with the same person as before and triple a calls again and they leave a message.
as i'm about to listen to the message, and i see a triple a tow truck drive by, i wave my arms and the guy thinks i'm waving at him. so i start to shake my head and get crazier with the arm waving (okay, so i probably looked like i was having a seizure). so he rolls down his window (there is two lanes of the road in between us) and he's like don't panic... and i'm like, dude i neeeeed to be towed. so he's like alright, he crosses traffic pulls into the lot and i tell him i've been there for 3 hours by now and i've been rerouted numerous times, etc. he talks to someone. while he's talking i check the message triple a left me and it says they can't get out there till 9pm, and they might not even make that, how about they pick it up in the morning?
so when he gets off the radio, i tell him what the message just said and he's like yeah i can tow you. FINALLY!!
so i get home at 8:30pm, 5 minutes later i get a call from a tow truck driver asking where exactly i was located. i told him i was already home and that i had to flag down my own tow truck. he said oh, well that's good that you got help, i was on my way.
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