This has been a batteries...

Okay, tonight has been a crazy crazy day...

First, I had a very strange day at work and I can't really tell details on the blog, but ask and I'll let you know what happened. ;-)

Second, I got back to the apartment and ran inside. When I got back to the car, my battery was dead. After asking for help from a few folks around the complex, I ended up calling AAA and getting a jump. The guy came and tested the battery and said I needed a new one because this thing was six years old and car battereis usually last around 3-5 years. So RT and I drove over to Durham to buy a battery from Wal-Mart.

By the way, it's raining and nighttime now.

With battery and wrench in hand, we go at it and get the new battery installed. Now, the people of walmart have told us that if we bring the old battery back in, we will get $9 back, so that is what we do. Unfortunately, the people of walmart failed to mention that batteries leak acid and that you should never tip them or really carry them around once they have bit the bullet. So I am holding the battery and we head into walmart. A man approaches us and asked why I was carrying the battery and why I was getting battery acid everywhere (including my bare arms). He gave us a cart and told us to go wash it off.

Now at this point, it started to itch. This itch quickly turned into burn. Because there was battery acid. On my arm. I washed it off as best I could but it was still very red. We then got my $9 and started back to AC's.

But wait! There's more!

Turning onto the road, one of my contacts fell out. I couldn't get pulled off or else I would have just let RT drive, but no...I carried on. PS- It's still raining and dark, and now I can't see and I have lingering battery acid on my arm.

Luckily, I'm able to get through driving on I-40 enough to get back to Chapel Hill and to AC's apartment. I found a box of contacts in my purse after we got there and so I was able to see.

But this has been my day. Really and truly. Insanity.