Lonnie Knows Everything

Today was nothing short of a bad day, no geek story here .. just general ranting

The past month or so has been filled with crap to begin with, but today decided it would put the cherry on top (god I hope it’s the top) ..

I arrive at work and get out of my car in the pouring rain and I notice the very very strong smell of gasoline, not only that, but I can see a discolored trail all the way from the street, right into the lot up to my space, so I’m thinking woah, that can’t be good .. this wasn’t a splotchy, drippy looking stream, this was a 2-3 inch thick constant stream of fuel ..

At lunch time I decided to go some place near by, right around the corner… still a stream of fuel ..  so I leave early to get this taken care of quickly.. first I stop at Firestone and have them take a look, an hour and 45 minutes later – NOTHING .. they found nothing, so $55 spent and no resolution… I drive 10 yards or so, stop .. check .. yep fuel on the ground.. so I go over to Goodyear and have them check .. half hour or so later ($84.00 for the inspection) .. they find the issue and show me, a broken seal on the side of the tank, the “filler to gas tank” seal, whatever that means.. clearly broken though … they have to order it, so that’s $22.00 .. and labor will be $168 on Friday to put it on.. keeping track? $55 + $84 + $168 = $307 so far ..

So I get home, at least glad to have probably resolved the car issue (come Friday anyway) … I decide I better file the lame R.I.T.A tax (a stupid thing here in most Ohio counties) ..  it comes to $0.00 every year so I always find it to be an insane waste of time, I don’t work in a R.I.T.A county but I live in one, so I have to file … so I’m going through it, I get to the end … I owe over a grand, on top of what I owed for Federal and everything else .. so I file it and submit a payment, forgetting I just doled out over $300 earlier today ..

Awesome … My checking account is officially empty ..

To make things worse, I’m about to inherit, I’m sure, a 20k+ debt .. 

Soooo .. I think I’ve decided to take a job in Canada and officially say fuck my life here, I’m not married, no girlfriend, no kids .. I have no ties, so I may as well just leave the country and change my name to something cool … like .. Trent