Today I woke up and there was a text message that said “hey mister Sean bring the Loaner back your car has been done for 2 days” I said I was just notified yesterday (Tuesday) that my car was done and tested. I replied a couple hours later when I first noticed that email, I have been waiting for that email. I hoped it was going to come the day before but it did not, my calculations were wrong, because Maher tested their work, commercial companies rarely do that. I do that all the time. I test my own work every time. I have about a 70 percent success rate on the first fix, Anyway, I texted back, I just was notified Tuesday my car was ready and I replied exactly when I would be there to pick it up. I said I would be there to do the switch Tuesday May 24th 2023 around 1PM ET. I still have the sent email. I advised there HAS never ever been a problem with me bringing back a loaner. I always bring it back with more gas than I was supposed to. I barely use it too. So I dropped off the loaner and picked up Ruby. I drove it home and it drove perfect, I got home and it started to rain real hard (next week starts Hurricane season) I just call it the rainy Season. So it rains really hard for like 40 minutes every day pretty much. So I took Ruby out near the house and the Wipers worked perfectly and there was nothing leaking, I think that is so awesome! Summer said something about the windshield seal was changed by them or something? I dunno what was done. All I know and care about is that it works perfectly that is usually how things go when you take your time and do the job right. I am able to drive for Uber tomorrow which is pretty cool! So I have everything ready to go. This Friday is an Oil Change Friday so I gotta earn that and some gas money too 40 bux in gas will fill that car up completely for 2 days! I just can’t imagine people driving for Uber that get even 30 miles to the gallon, that is horrible gas mileage gas is expensive. It’s pretty much the only thing you CAN control! So it should be as efficient as possible!
Today was like Sundays are supposed to be laid back. I went to St. Petersburg today I took the loaner. I got my SunPass in the center console sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. So I dunno. I wanted to eat at the Helm on St. Pete beach today but it was closed. I picked it because I saw it in the Tampabay.com day starter. It was closed today so I went to the other place I saw in the day starter. It is called “Good Intentions” it’s a vegetarian joint but you wouldn’t ever know if I didn’t read about it in the paper. It is in Downtown St. Petersburg and it was really good. I would definitely go there again. I had the Southern Sriracha crab cakes x 22 and the Truffle Mac n Cheese. Which was also good. I sat at the Bar and the bartender was really cool.
Today Summer sent me an email that Ruby/my car was ready for pick up. So I headed that way and stopped by the Wawa on 22nd Avenue North and put 10 bux in the 2022 Blazer she got loaned to me the other day, and took it back to them and it started pouring rain, so I waited like 5 minutes after I parked at Maher for the rain to stop, it didn’t, it started raining even harder so I just went into the office, we traded fobs and I was out it was very cool it always is with them any way I got in Ruby and started her up. Then on the center console I saw water that had dripped there. I looked up, I saw a drip from the Rain inside the car. I snapped a pick of it with my phone and then shut the car off, walked in and showed summer, she said well can you take the loaner again? I was like cool so we traded fobs again and I went to Saki Sushi on the corner oh US 19 and Gulf To Bay and ate 6 freshly made Sushi rolls and headed back to Manatee County.
I got an email today from summer at Maher Collision that the wipers are fixed and the tested good. So I will go there Tomorrow and get Ruby and she will be totally fixed. That is cool I will be able to drive this Saturday. Which is very cool because Saturday’s are pretty decent driving days historically. I was not able to sleep until this morning at 7AM I woke up at 10:30AM and I could not go back to sleep! I have the perfect sleeping conditions in my room, and still I can’t sleep? It is dark from the large Amazon boxes I stapled over the windows except for the vent that evaporates the water as it pulls it out of my room air while cooling it, I like it about 68 degrees. That is pretty low in Florida When I have my P.C. turned off, it is stable in here at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. I have a queen size bed all to myself, I have an old oscillating fan diagonally across the room from the Air Conditioner so I keep it as dark as possible, I light with artificial light only. That portable A.C. has a remote control that I keep on my desk because sometimes it actually gets too cold in my room and I gotta turn it off. I remember, at any time, when I was under 40 years old, I could almost always sleep no problem. Now that I am over 40 sleep is very hard for me. I can definitely see how ice baths always work very well. When it comes to temps under like 60 degrees Fahrenheit, as apposed to Celsius in Canada and Mexico (There are a lot of other places on earth besides the U.S.) I am extremely sensitive to the cold, so a 10 or 15 second cold shower for me worx like an Ice Bath does for Tim Ferris. I have read all of his stuff which is umm kind of a lot. He is a pretty good teacher. Tim has a very bad problem going to sleep so the solutions he writes about tend to work very well for me. The problem I have is cold showers to go to sleep tend to be a P.I.T.A. I didn’t think of that last night. You would think that 2 rides per day would make me tire but they do not.
Summer at Maher hooked me up today with this. Hopefully, I will be able to bring it back tomorrow. I said it before and I will say it again when the chips are down, it’s just awesome to have a company like Maher to bring your broken crap to, I am like umm, it still works good but, it’s broken will you fix it, please. I am like umm, I don’t know how you all are gonna fix this, but every single time I can’t ever tell anything was broken on it. I do not know how they do it, and I don’t care, the best part is, that is fine with them!
Today I completed a single ride, I made like 28 bux or something. That was a ride to Bradenton, over the Skyway Bridge
the rider was in the car going through that $1.07 toll I was like yulp, I’ll take that one. After I dropped her off it started
to rain, I put the windshield wipers on, and they broke. I pulled over into a parking lot to figure out why that happened.
It was pouring rain. I don’t like being stranded, but the wiper connection clip broke so I could not even rig it up. Everything else
was perfect as usual though. I made today an “Oil Change Friday”, and they usually tell me my driver’s side High-Beam is out
but not this time. I was like huh? I looked at it and flicked on the High-Beam and it was fixed by Maher! I have been using Maher
for a very long time. I first learned about them when I was with Geico. Geico pointed them out to me because they have an enterprise
office in there. Maher collision was also an express body shop. So I would have my car towed there or drive it there, and pick it
up and pay them the deductible, and drive my car home, I was never without a car. The work they do is always perfect too. When a car
accident happens, I am usually sore, and things are bad already, Maher Collision is a no brainer for me. I like working with them because
I am never without a car, and when I pickup
my vehicle from them, my car always works and drives like the accident never happened. I looked it up on YouTube and found out that there
is some linkage in there and if there is something wrong with it or it is taken apart in any way, the only way to fix it is to buy a new one.
it may look right, but if it was reassembled by a human it will not work. I do not know why it happened, but the fact is that it did happen and
I do not like anything not working on my car. I sent an email to Summer @ Maher and she will take care of it. I remember when Geico suggested Maher
to me I was like umm that is a Chevrolet dealership and I had a Nissan Maxima at the time and Geico was like they repair all makes and models and
we partner with them, and they have an Enterprise office right in there. They didn’t have to tell me twice, I was like sold! Now I am with Progressive
and they have an office like blocks away so they are like that is no problem, pick the rental up from there and drop it off there too.
I am still unable to drive for Uber since the accident that happened on 03/25/2023.
I woke up this morning to a text from my Progressive adjuster that said my car would not be ready
until Sunday because a windshield seal needs to be acquired. I sent an email to Summer @ Maher Collision
and she told me that was not correct my car would be ready for pickup today Thursday, May 11th, 2023 at 1:30PM.
So I went and picked Ruby up and like always, she looks really good. They do awesome work at Maher! So tomorrow I will get the oil changed
and head to Pinellas to earn…. Finally!
I am still unable to drive for Uber since the accident that happened on 03/25/2023.
Tomorrow is the day I drop off the courtesy vehicle and pick up Ruby. I sent an email to
Maher Collision Center and set a pickup time for the afternoon. So I will be driving
through this weekend yay! I never thought I would be so gassed to pickup Uber riders lol.