It wasn’t my fault!

Charles, I have some not so good news about your Passat Wagon.  First off – you probably already know – chicks do not dig it nearly as much as the Viking1.  Bummer for you and as it turned out for me when I was rocking it.

After living the high life of rolling deep in Leif’s Viking1, I gave it to our buddy Andreas Kilde because he already coordinated with Leif to borrow it when his family was in Denver for the Holidays.   But for a good 5 days, I was the man crushing it in the Viking1.  Rolling around the mountains in a Porsche Cayenne Turbo was totally sweet.  I’ve never had a nice car and it’s absolutely hilarious how everyone treats you very differently in one.  I’ve borrowed Bode’s Audi RS6, Jon’s Nissan GTR, and Ted’s Audi RS5, but it’s always been in Europe so having the Viking1 in Colorado people thought it was actually mine, which was hilarious.   Rarely, if ever, has anyone said, “Dude, let’s take your car!”  That doesn’t happen when I’m rolling in my Honda Accord Wagon, but that happened to me nearly every single day with both dudes and chicks.  And after nearly a week, it was starting to go to my head – I was starting to think I was pretty damn sweet.  Unfortunately, it was probably mostly entirely the car.    Thanks Leif for letting me realize I’m not that sweet when I gave it to Kilde haha.   But seriously, it was fun to drive it, thanks, and I knew it wasn’t going to die, which was a pleasant change of pace for this guy!

Back to the point of this blog, it was good to get back to reality in Charles rig.   So I waited until after Christmas to mention to Charles I have some good news and bad news.  He paid the Holiday Inn Express to keep his car there for two weeks, which is a good idea it’s cheaper than DIA and pretty damn easy to use.  I borrowed it for a few days in the middle. However…

Good news/bad news 1:

I found the Holiday Inn Express, but they ran out of parking spots.

Good news/bad news 2:

Luckily I was able to park the car, but it’s not in an actual spot.   It was in the middle of a snowstorm so I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Good news/bad news 3:

I locked your keys in the car, just like I was told.  But, the interior lights never went off.  I watched for about a minute, but it was cold and I had to catch the 6:30 AM shuttle so when I left they were on.

Good news/bad news 4

If it’s not towed, you will most-likely still need someone to jump your car.

Good news/bad news 5:

I cleaned the interior and left some money, but it’s to wash your car because it looks disgusting (it was like that when I picked it up so that shouldn’t be a big surprise).

Good news/bad news 6:

I left you a personalized Autographed Dodge Boot Card of me you can probably sell it for the price of the towing, storage, and jumping with tons of money to spare, or maybe not!

In closing, thanks to both Leif and Charles for their help making my program in Colorado much cheaper.  Leif your rig is ridiculously awesome and Charles your car has terrible windshield wiper, but amazing snow tires!  Charles, I hope we have some good luck and it’s still there and has power!   If not, I’m sure I’ll hear about it soon.  Sorry to tell you this way, but it’s still early in Alaska and I didn’t want to wake you up!