omg

we all know that I am not especially fond of my job. I traded p.m. risers with Martha, since I have to leave early for a band boosters meeting next week, which is my riser week. a simple trade. no biggie. I would get home a few minutes later. the road we drive to work has went from gravel to muddy to deep rutted clay tire tracks down the middle of the road. kind of hairy, but everyone was 4 wheelin' in and out in orderly fashion. until today. someone buried their vehicle on top of a hill. one truck went around. another tried to go thru the field & got stuck. I was in the group that meekly turned off their vehicles & waited. The 2 trucks behind me waited a while, then backed up & went out the other way. I kept in touch with kevin on the cell---I hate backing up. I have a real complex about it. But, after waiting 40 minutes in the same spot & watching the 2 vehicles behind me back up, I took a deep breath & started backing up. Had to back up a hill, no visibility. Then back up another hill. no visibility. then used the LRM graveled turn around spot to turn around. It seemed like I backed the Indy 500, but it was probably a quarter mile or so. the gravel road goes out another way, I'd never been that way, so called kevin to see where I'd end up at. It was not nearly as bad as the road I'd been driving. it's more miles, but most of them are highway, & it took about as long as I've been inching down the mud road tearing up the truck.
so, finally get home, we decide to plunge ahead with the planned walmart trip. kj stays home. have to wash the truck, the headlights are so muddy we can't see. then eat supper & head to walmart. we progress thru the store, the tailgate won't open. kevin assures me it's froze. I of course can't get it open, he does. I load the truck. tailgate won't stay shut. he messes with it a while. I end up moving all the stuff to the back seat. then had to get gas...kevin got out his tarp strap & fastened the tailgate shut. looks classy. but on the plus side---he noticed that the service engine soon light that has been on awhile is now off.
got home late & threw off kate's whole bedtime routine.
Set my alarm early to drive the other way to work. kevin assures me the road will freeze back up, it'll be fine. but I wonder how bad they messed up the road getting that guy out. or did he ever get out? will it be like the Dr Suess story where they build the interstate by pass over the 2 guys? do I want to find out on my way to a place I really don't want to go anyway?
the answers to these & other questions on the next episode of Soap.