With no plans in mind for the long weekend rented a Dodge Neon on Wednesday. The color of the car was awesome – Ferrari RED. My room mate and couple more colleagues are new to Seattle so I took the job of a guide to show paces nearby. Thursday went to Snoqualmie Falls and Bellevue. Friday was spent in Best buy and Circuit city. Unlike last year it was a boring shopping experience. The camera that I bought last year was not even present on the display this year. It has become outdated :- ( Hunted for a laptop for my colleague. Checking prices and configuration alone took more than couple of hours. Finally bought one and got disappointed as it was a damaged one. Saturday was spent on replacing that. We were asked to go to another Circuit city branch to collect that. Some bad omen was following us, couple of laptops they showed us were also damaged. Luckily we checked the pieces in the store itself. In the end settled for a HP notebook. Since the problem was with Circuit city,we got 100 USD off, plus a Sony car stereo and an optical mouse free!!! That was a great customer care. Driving experience was not as thrilling as the previous one expect couple of blushes while changing lanes. If someone has seen a red Dodge Neon in I-5 or 405, not sure of which lane it is going - That's ME.
Sunday - What a day it was
Went for Wal*Mart in the evening. We were killing time like anything in shoes, laptop accessories, crafts and other sections without realizing the blunder I made. By around 7:00 we decide to go out somewhere for dinner and reached the parking lot. I found that I forgot to switch off the head-lights. Tried to start the engine,but in vain. My room mate's mobile was running out of battery and we had to call the AAA services and hold in line for a long time. Luckily Wal*Mart had a phone booth and it helped a lot. It took one hour for the service guy to reach the place and tow the vehicle. Later i came to know that jump-start(never knew what it is) would have worked fine. Then called up a cab service for a pick up. Felt damn hungry and decided to finish the dinner in the McD inside Wal*Mart. We were waiting in the freezing cold for the Taxi. After an hour called up the cab service again to get the info – "We came sir, you were not there in the front". It was too much for the day. Pleaded the cab service to send another cab. At last around 9:00, one taxi driver came and reached the home by 9:30 after dropping couple of colleagues in the hotel. When we thought - ok that's all for the day, came a call from one of my colleague – "Machan, hotel room door is broken, my laptop is missing".
Sunday - What a day it was
Went for Wal*Mart in the evening. We were killing time like anything in shoes, laptop accessories, crafts and other sections without realizing the blunder I made. By around 7:00 we decide to go out somewhere for dinner and reached the parking lot. I found that I forgot to switch off the head-lights. Tried to start the engine,but in vain. My room mate's mobile was running out of battery and we had to call the AAA services and hold in line for a long time. Luckily Wal*Mart had a phone booth and it helped a lot. It took one hour for the service guy to reach the place and tow the vehicle. Later i came to know that jump-start(never knew what it is) would have worked fine. Then called up a cab service for a pick up. Felt damn hungry and decided to finish the dinner in the McD inside Wal*Mart. We were waiting in the freezing cold for the Taxi. After an hour called up the cab service again to get the info – "We came sir, you were not there in the front". It was too much for the day. Pleaded the cab service to send another cab. At last around 9:00, one taxi driver came and reached the home by 9:30 after dropping couple of colleagues in the hotel. When we thought - ok that's all for the day, came a call from one of my colleague – "Machan, hotel room door is broken, my laptop is missing".
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