Woke up around 8:30 and gave Braxton and Rylan baths before the vet. Took them to see the doc and Rylan was a crazy mess. She was so difficult. She weighs about 51 pounds but it took all of my strength to keep her in check. Braxton, on the other hand, was a dream. He weighs 82 pounds and just sat there like a good little boy :). He is my favorite. Can you tell? $200 later they were up to date on shots and doggie meds. Rylan wore me out so much I ended up taking a nap for 45 minutes as soon as I got home.
I had a chiropractor appointment at 2pm so Toni decided to go with me. I was having major gas pains so we stopped at the DG (Dollar General) to pick up Gas-X. Anyone that has been to a DG knows there are always a 100 people in the store and 1 stupid register open. Please keep in mind that my appointment was at 2pm on the southside of town and it was already 1:30pm. I pick up the Gas-X and 3 of Polk County's finest are in front of me. The guy that was paying couldn't get his credit card to work. He tried 3 times and finally it went through. While he was cusing at the machine the lady behind him was SCREAMING across the store to her granddaughter "BBBBBRRRIIIAAANNNNNNEEEEE" She did this 4 times before her smarty pants granddaughter finally decided to acknowledge that she was listening. A manager opened another register so the woman directly in front of me went to that register. I stayed put because I knew as soon as I moved to the other register it would suddenly become the longest line. I finally get to the register and my stupid Debit card won't scan!!! I was so pissed. I stormed out to the car and threw the card into the car past Toni (who was driving) and got her card to pay for the Gas X. Ridiculous.
I was 10 minutes late to the chiro. Toni went back with me to see what the dr. did. It was EXTREMELY relaxing. But that didn't matter because of what was about to happen...
The chiro office is on the corner of Lakeland Highlands Rd and Edgewood. We pull out of the parking lot onto Lakeland Highlands Rd towards 540A. Toni decides to ask were we needed to go AFTER we were on Lakeland Highlands Rd. I said we need to go pay for the dogs rabies tags at Animal Control. Animal Control is on Winter Lake Rd by the dump. We decide that we will just continue on Lklnd. Highlands Rd to 540A and cut acroos to Bartow Rd to pick up Winter Lake. We literally ended up making a complete ginormous circle.
We made it to Animal Control around 3pm. The officer took the paperwork and told us that it would be $22. I went to pay with a Visa Debit card and THEY DON'T TAKE VISA!!! I mean seriously. They take Mastercard, Discover and Amex but not Visa!!! By this time it was pouring down rain. We run to the car and take off back down Winter Lake Rd to find an ATM. We hit the Citgo by PCC and the ATM is out of order (imagine that). The only other place with an ATM nearby is the 7-11 by my CHIRO's OFFICE (where we just came from). I attempt to use the ATM and the stupid thing won't read my card. I start bending it in half, trying to break it and stomp out of the store. It is still pouring and I am soaked from head to toe by the time I get back into the car. I start flipping out and using all of the profanity I can think of. It didn't help the situation but I felt better. I get Toni's card again and we decide we need a Snicker's bar because we all know that chocolate always helps in stressful situations. The ATM likes Toni's card but the piece of junk still doesn't work. It has a bunch of different options on the machine to pay bills, cash a check etc. but it froze when I tried to pull money out of the machine. I cancelled the transaction. I bought our Snicker's bars thinking I could get cash back. The attendant says yes you can get cash back but only $10!!! If you remember, I needed $22 for the tags. I was ridiculously frustrated by this time. She said that Winn Dixie (which was right across the parking lot) had an ATM. That ATM FINALLY worked. We headed back to Animal Control, 30 minutes later, and paid for the tags.
On our way home we decided to take the Polk Parkway. We were cruising along until we reached the toll booth. There were 3 lanes: SunPass, Exact Change and Change Provided. We only had a $1 and the toll was $.50. Imagine our surprise when the Change Provided lane was closed and we do not have a SunPass so we had to use the Exact Change line. The car in front of us didn't have $.50 either so she got out of her car and asked us for change. We told her we didn't have it either. I got out of the car and asked the toll booth attendant if she had change and she said for us to go on through. We are still waiting on our ticket in the mail.
I guess that we had enough put on us for one day so it was pretty normal.
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