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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Outside Joke - A new thing I do.



Chris Erb, Alec Wells, Kyle Fried, Kelen Coleman, and I made this on Saturday.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

My Newest Year Yet

A Short Story of My Agonizing Experiences

When I got back to Los Angeles I realized that I didn't have my keys. Some time in the previous two weeks I had lost them which meant that I had no access to my car or my house. None of my roommates were back in town yet.

So I rented a car. ($109)

I knew my window was unlocked and my room is on the second floor of my house. So the logical thing to do was to climb up on the first floor roof and break into my house where I could find my spare key.

I pulled my rental Prius up next to the house and tried to climb from the roof of it on to the first floor roof. The idea was far worse in practice than it even sounds right now.

So I decided to just scale the side of my house. I'm not very strong so this was pretty hard. But after scraping up my right arm pretty nicely, I was on the roof. I pulled off the screen to my window and break in to my house. I searched for my spare key.

I cannot find my spare key.

I went to get my luggage out of the rental car and when I got to the front door I saw that I had unlocked the dead bolt but not the little twisty on-the-doorknob lock. So I'm locked out again.

I broke back into my house.

I WILL NOW ACCELERATE THE REMAINDER OF THE STORY

- Extend car rental. (another $109)
- Call five Nissan dealerships. (lots of cell phone minutes used)
- Go to get key made at dealership. They need my car to be physically there to make a key. (wasted gas)
- Get friend to drive me to John Wayne Airport in Orange County just to drop off rental car because dealerships are closed on New Year's Day. (1 hour drive)
- Get friend to drive me back to John Wayne Airport so I can find my car because I don't remember where I parked. (another 1 hour drive)
- Get AAA to tow me to dealership. (dealt with towing service's bad attitude)
- Get spare keys made. ($250! 2 hour wait)
- Suffer endless mockery. (7 hours and counting)