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[rivka]

Recommended: Going to the Family Dance sponsored by the Baltimore Folk Music Society and having a great time dancing to live music with your three-year-old.

Not Recommended: Leaving the dance, getting in the car, and backing out of your parking place, only to discover that you have an extremely flat tire.

Not Recommended: Your three-year-old developing a multiple-bathroom-trip case of diarrhea while you're trying to get the car situation straightened out.

Not Recommended: All of this happening at dinner time, so that the kid's stomach is a ticking time bomb in more ways than one.

Recommended: Toyota roadside assistance, which comes free to 100,000 miles when you buy a Toyota Certified Used Vehicle. I called their 800 number, and about 10 minutes later a lovely young man was in the church parking lot changing my tire. All told, it took just about half an hour from discovering the flat to being on the road again - including bathroom trips. No money changed hands. And Toyota called later to double-check that everything was okay.

Recommended: The three-year-old belting out from the back seat, "I like black and white, dreaming black and white, you like black and white, run runaway."


Now I am extremely tired.

The Family Dance was wonderful, though. Alex is to the point where she can follow some basic dance directions, and she's much less reluctant to hold fellow dancers' hands than she used to be. For some of the dances she was able to be my partner instead of just my shadow - including one square dance in which she was required to run around the square in the opposite direction from me. I only had to carry her for a grand total of about three minutes. And no one patted me on the head.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thanks be for the Toyota roadside assistance. Sorry about the difficult stuff. Looks like you both had fun in spite of it.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Parenthetically: as a Slade fan AND a folk music fan, thank you tons for that link. Brightened my day, it did.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

LOL. I was gonna say, if my kid starts singing that it's the Slade version.

Glad everything turned out okay, sympathy for the stress and craziness.

(none of the cars with flats I was ever in had the Toyota service thing. Even though I have no drivers license, I can change a tire. And a signal light.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I know how to change a tire, theoretically, but between the disabled right arm, the pregnancy, and the kid hopping around I decided not to even try.

We also had a can of fix-a-flat, but I've never used it and was dubious about how well it would hold up. If I had been closer to home, or if Alex had not been in the car, or if my route home didn't involve incredibly busy highways, I might've been willing to try it.

But yeah, thank heavens for that service. It was incredible.

Great Big Sea

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Recommended: The three-year-old belting out from the back seat, "I like black and white, dreaming black and white, you like black and white, run runaway.""

The strangest things make it all worthwhile.

B

Re: Great Big Sea

[rivka.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that I remember liking it as a kid too, for the same reason that Alex does now: it's about a chameleon. How many radio songs are actually about interesting topics? ;-)

(Hm. I guess I was 10 when it came out. I thought I was younger.)

Re: Great Big Sea

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I take vicodin before GBS shows because of songs like that, because if I bounce, my knees can't tolerate it, but I can't not bounce.