election

so when i was in Roxboro, North Carolina last month, i was amazed that there were no signs of the election anywhere. No signs. No bumper stickers. no nothing. Except....for one Ron Paul sign. So Obama and McCain better watch out, because Ron Paul totally has the Roxboro vote. I hear the Roxboro vote was the decider between Bush and Gore back in 2000.

breaking stereotypes

So, Saturday while driving home, i was stopped at a red light and the car in front of me was horribly tilted to the right. Since i was at the bottom of a hill, I figured that the road dipped down lower on the right side. After pulling onto the adjacent road, her car was still tilted. Then i noticed that her front passenger side tire was flat. It was a four lane road, so i pulled around next to her and tried to get her attention to tell her to pull off the road, but she didn't notice me. She wasn't talking on the phone or anything, so i have no idea why she wasn't noticing me. So we turn onto the next road and i get a view of the tire. Yeah, the tire had gone beyond flat. I saw rim, as in I saw the depth of the circumference of the rim, not just the flat face side of the rim. The tire was coming off of her wheel. It was crazy. She was sooooo close to actually driving on her rim, it was ridonkulous! At this point i was getting kind of angry, since she was not only a danger to herself, but other cars around her, and i was amazed at how she could not know that something was definitely wrong with her car and why she was still driving it. She could very easily lose control of her car at any time. As i was flashing my lights behind her and honking my horn and pulling around side her, motioning for her to get off the road, pieces of her tire were being ripped off and flying behind her car. crazyness. She finally pulled into some parking lot and we got out of our respective cars. I asked her, "you realize your tire is flat right?" She said "i knew something was wrong, but i thought i could make it home." We walked around to her tire and she was like "how did my tire get like that?" I figured that's what happens when you drive too long and too fast on a reallllllly flat tire. Of course she didn't know how to change a tire, so i had her pop her trunk which was messy and full of clothes (fun facts). I got out her spare tire and whatnot and started to change her tire. Luckily i've done this type of thing before. She kept saying "thank you" and then proceeded to tell me that she is going through a divorce and today her and her future ex-husband just told their kids about it. So overall, i'd have to say that this was not a good day for her. I told her i was glad to be the bit of sunshine in her life today. So after getting extremely messy and receiving countless "thank you's", we were about to part ways, when i don't know what came over me, but i told he that to help break stereotypes, she can tell all her friends that a gay guy changed her tire for her. Represent. Word.