11 July 2009

Well. The day started out pretty good and then kinda went into the crapper as the day wore on.

It started off with M’s truck dying on her. Luckily it was just the battery that died, but it was very unexpected and sudden too. She had just left a store and had met me at the bowling alley to roll a few games. When we left we decided to just take one vehicle out to get a drink before we were to meet some friends for the evening. We jumped in her truck and when I cranked the key… Nothing. Heck even the usual buzzers and stuff when the key is put in the ignition were silent.

The good thing was I had my car there and I had jumper cables in the back of the car. I spent about 20 minutes trying to jump the truck but apparently the truck battery was so dead it wouldn’t even take a charge from my car. We didn’t have any tools so we just went out and bought a new battery for the truck and put it in the back of the car and headed out to meet our friends.

I’m going to try and be delicate about all that happened last night. None of the people involved read my blog so I’m not worried they are going to see their lives on the internet.

Our friends are MM and AM. MM is the guy and he’s really a nice person, but he has a drinking problem. If he could just have a few beers and then stop, that would be great. But with him it’s all or nothing. Once he starts drinking it’s not going to stop until he’s wasted. He also has been laid-off just before I was so he’s unemployed also. And to tell the truth he’s not dealing very well with it either. He went back to school too so at least he has something going on. There are other things going on too, but that’s enough to get the picture.

AM is the girl and her problems are many as well. She’s a mortgage loan officer and as we all know the housing market is been pretty poor. She is pretty insecure about her appearance and was married once before to an abusive husband. There are other things but I won’t go into them.

MM is a very outgoing person even when he’s not drinking and when he does drink at a bar or club he likes to talk to people. Usually younger women, which ticks AM right off. He swears to me he means nothing by it and swears he’s not trying to cheat on AM, but I know he already has cheated and more than once.

So long story made shorted is this: Last night MM is on a bender with the beer and I and my wife have seen this before. We also know that when this happens, AM tends to start fussing at MM about his drinking and he gets mighty pissy. And drinking even more. So last night we decided to run interference and I took MM and Michelle took AM in hand. The whole plan was to stick with them and not to let them get at each other until one of them went to sleep. So my wife stayed up keeping AM company and I ended up drinking beer with MM until 230am, when I finally convinced him to go to bed.

MM basically told me last night he doesn’t love AM anymore, and is probably going to leave her. I suppose that might be best. They’ve only been married for less than two years. And they were not easy years. I think that they went into this with the old “Rose Colored Glasses” on.

We stayed the night at their house last night and this morning we drove on home at about 730am. M and I both were feeling pretty rough around the edges from mass quantities of beer and lack of sleep, so when we got home we both sacked out for a couple of hours to let sleep and Tylenol work its magic.

So this afternoon we loaded up the tool box in the car and headed out to replace the battery in the truck. Of course I had to modify the bracket that holds the battery down because the replacement didn’t freaking fit right. But all in all I got the truck running and drove it home while M went out and did some shopping in the car just in case I had a problem with the truck

While on her way back home from shopping AM called my wife and told her that she and MM had fought and they were both leaving. So now AM is at a hotel about 35 miles from her home and MM is at his mother’s house. Somehow I get the feeling that this is the end for them.

There are more issues and stories with them than I care to get into here, but I’ll just say that it’ll be difficult to talk to either of them in the future whether they are together or separate.

Well, that was my night and most of today. I think I’m going to take a nap.

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