UNSCHEDULED

This post was supposed to be for Five Minute Friday

Word prompt--SCHEDULE

Five minutes to free-write about it

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Participating in Friday's prompt was on my schedule, but the day did not go according to plan. Instead, I spent a good part of it sitting in the garage waiting for my car to be repaired. 

On Thursday, I had rolled my car window down and then not been able to roll it back up again. Not a good thing with all the rain in the forecast. Also not a good thing because, as I found out, it's the only window in a car that you have to be able to open and close in order for the car to pass inspection, and my inspection was almost due.

A friend had recommended this place. It's a new garage in town, which I had also received a discount coupon in the mail for, and it did not disappoint.

True to the sign, the people working there were very friendly, accommodating, and willing to go above and beyond.

They first took the door off to see what was preventing the window from cranking back up and see if they could fix it. Unfortunately, they could not. The very old mechanism (my car is 26 years old) was broken beyond repair and had to be replaced. 

And so on Friday, instead of tackling the things on my schedule, I did things that were not. Like take pictures of my visit to the garage, and read a digital library book on my cell phone that I had not had time to read, and that was about to expire and get automatically returned.

The interior of the building was very clean and bright, and the waiting areas were very comfortable and had several amenities, such as a refreshment bar, with coffee, water, and snacks; a trolly with free pens, flashlights, squishy toys, key chains, and other items (I was not ablt to get a good picture of); and a most amazing children's area.

The children's area had games, books, a little table and chairs, and a red phone on the wall with a sign that said to pick it up and someone would bring you a lollipop.

I did not pick up the red phone and get a lolliop, but I did accept the gift of these squishy cars and flashlights for two of my great-grandsons.