#aliemah's adventures

[aliemah]

Aliemah’s Adventures:

In the past four days (including today):

- I had low tire pressure and tried to fill them up again as per usual. The stem broke on one tire and resulted in a flat tire. I changed the tire, scheduled an appointment to get the tire looked at the following day.

- My gaming chair that I’ve only had for a year has a screw that fell out somehow and now I can’t use my backrest otherwise I will fall backwards onto the floor. I contact customer service and they tell me they’ll get back to me in less than 24 hours on how to fix my issue.

-Following day it turns out another tire was flat. Had a tow truck take the car to the tire place for free (thanks insurance!) and the tire place had the issue fixed a solid hour before my actual appointment time.

- Guy at the tire place told me the tires were actually fine, just needed to be rotated and it was actually the pressure sensors in the tires that were bad and had to be replaced. Less expensive fix so that’s all good.

- Only they only replaced the two sensors in the flat tires that they refilled. They told me that the other two sensors would likely go bad in the next few days and to just come back if the tire pressure light comes on again.... weird, but alright...

- And then they had to jump the car to get it to start again. Only it wouldn’t start until the 50th try when we got an actual car to jump it. Had to go buy a brand new car battery.

- Haven’t heard back about my chair. Okay, with all the pandemic stuff, I’ll give them an extra day. It’s fine, I wanted to lay in bed today anyway.

- Yesterday: planning to hang out with the boyfriend. Everything’s going great. As I’m moving to walk towards the front door to leave I ROLL MY ANKLE. Walking on it is a little uncomfortable but I did just put it through some stress so I keep off it as best I can. I always make fun of my boyfriend for having poor balance (he’s sporting a walking boot for the next month because he rolled his ankle at work). Ankle is fine but fuck if the bruises on my knees don’t bother me.

- As I’m going home from hanging out at his place, the tire pressure light comes on. Alright, fine, I’ll just go to the tire place tomorrow, it’s all fine.

- Still no word from the chair people. Don’t care, wanna sleep.

- Today: Take the car in. Tell them it happened again. They look confused and ask me to wait while they look in their system for the car information. They come back and say “yeah, we’ll go ahead and replace them, please wait.”

- Half an hour later guy comes over. “So we fixed the sensors. But it looks like your tires aren’t sealed properly so you have like... three options. Option one: we put a special sealant on the tires and you pay a fuck ton of money. Option two: you buy new tires. (Mine are 2 years old so fuck no) Option three: it’s a slow leak so you’d lose maybe one or two PSI over the course of a day with heavy driving. You’d have to top off the air pressure about once a month.”

- Areyoufuckingkiddingme

- I pay for the service to replace the sensors, plus labor and tax. I leave. I come home.

- Why can’t this car fucking function like it’s supposed to. I’ve spent, in the past few days, well over $600 on the car. For *minor* issues. Issues that they keep telling me are just going to come back. If I hadn’t also spent about $1000 to build myself a new computer to replace the one that’s failing, I’d say fuck it and go look at getting a new car.

- Still no word on the chair. I send another email with the previous one attached. I just want to be able to not fall backwards in my chair again - and I checked about 5,000 times. No, I can’t just put the screw back in, it came out of a piece that was pre-assembled out of the box and unless I want to break parts of the chair and void a warranty, I’m not about to try fixing it myself.

I’m tired, y’all. I’m putting my ankle up with some ice, munching on some Doritos and watching some fucking anime.