An Adventure

It was an adventure all right.  First I waited for Cassie to go grocery shopping so she could do it without Baby Love.  She really appreciated that. 
And then off I went.  Got gas and a soda.  I wasn't even to the Illinois state line when I had a low tire.  so I find a gas station and air it up.  Air gauges on free air are crap.  The car told me so.  Get going and now that tire is way to  high.  So I stop and let some air out.  I leaned over the console to get in my purse to find something to do that.  Remember this part.  Get some air out and it starts feeling really messed up.  So I go to a tire store.  The guy tells me the sticker in the door says 36 and that is what he is going to do all the way around.  I'm like hmmmm.  The tires say 44 psi.  So I drive it around and it is still acting freaking funny.  I stop at another gas station and by now I have no clue as to where I am in Indiana.  I paid for air here and it's gauge worked.  The car told me so.  Aired them all to 44.  And the car still acted funny.  So I just drive it.  GPS tells me where to go and gets me to Illinois.
 I am remembering to watch for the toll that I missed so I can go online and pay it.  I went through no tolls.  I could not drive over 55 which was fine most of the time I was in Illinois.  I had to get off the freeway.  Rush hour fun.  Decided I needed to take the car to the rental place.  Wondering if I should have stopped driving it.  But it just wouldn't go fast and it didn't  like to park.  I thought for sure I was a long way from the rental car place.  Turned out I was five miles.  I was at a gas station where the cashier was behind glass.  Made me a tad nervous as I have only seen that on TV. Get to the rental car place and tell the guy behind the counter what is happening.  He tells me I switched a switch.  Easy fix.  There is a knob on the console that switches it into low range.  I must have done it when I leaned over the console to get into my purse.  He switched it back and I was on my way.  Thought I was going to make good time now.
Ha.  I did not know that the GPS was set to no toll roads.  So I toured suburbs of Chicago and the countryside.  Some roads didn't even have lines.  But I got to Rockford and went and say my aunt and uncle.  It was a long day and an adventure.  But one that was better for not having children with me.