Hats Off to Charlie's Tire & Hat's On to Overdone Highlights

Something about the middle of winter begs for change? Anybody else ever feel that way?

I start flipping through real estate magazines in search of a new house (yeah right), vow to rid my cabinets of all the junk and rearrange furniture in as many rooms as possible.

Then I look in the mirror and even though there are plenty of things that could use some transforming, I select my hair as the candidate for alteration and implore my stylist to make me brand new. (To which she responds "I am a beautician not a magician")

So the other day I headed out the door to the salon in the pouring down rain. I work hard to collaborate my hair appointments with deluge-type days because there’s nothing like paying lots of money to have your hair fixed then stepping outside for the grand soaker.

On this particular occasion I not only  picked a day with copious amounts of rain but I had the added joy of a flat tire. Rainy days and flat tires are always nice to pair up if possible.

Apparently I drove all the way there without detecting an ounce of deflation, so when a lady came in the salon and announced that a white van had a flat tire she used some dramatic adjectives to express that the thing was so bone flat that it was surely un-drive able. I sensed she was probably thinking "and which of you idiots could manage to drive here without noticing something like that?" (Although she didn’t exactly say it.)

So, I confessed and preceded to do what any girl stuck with a flat tire would do. I got out my phone and starting dialing some numbers. (Never mind that I know how to change it myself...who really wants to do that?)

That’s when I thought of Charlie’s Tire. This place is always so good to me. I figured if I got my best begging voice on surely they’d rescue me.

And they did.

One of the things I love so much about Charlie’s Tire is they never even make you beg. I relayed my predicament and he said he’d be there shortly.

Awesome. I could knock two changes off at once, hair and tire, and not miss a beat for the rest of the day (Even though the latter was not exactly the kind of change I was looking for)

I hung up the phone and the hair dresser went to work putting a lot of odd tin foil looking strips in my hair pointing up in a zillion different directions and stuffed me under some heat blower thing to let it set.

Then it occurred to me. Did I really want Charlie’s Tire man showing up in the middle of this?

Too late.

Charlie’s Tire is not only awesome in their service, they are prompt.

And most of the time I love that about them.

On this day I wouldn’t have minded all that much if repair-guy could have taken a little bit longer to get there.

But there he was standing in the front door....searching.

About that time front desk lady yells over her shoulder, "Charlie’s Tire is here to see flat tire girl. I desperately wanted to crawl under the chair, but I pulled my alien head out from under the heat balloon thing and stepped up to the plate of humiliation.

Do you know that Charlie’s Tire guy stood there and looked me straight in the eye and discussed all the ins and outs about my tire predicament without ever even flinching? It’s like he totally didn’t see all the silver prods spiking out of my Medula style head?

No lie.

At one point I inched my head to the left and peeked in the mirror to make sure I really did look as weird as I thought I did.

I did.

But he might as well have been talking to the librarian about the encyclopedia selections.

Maybe that’s what James is talking about when he says 'my brothers do not show partiality' (James 2:1) To Charlie’s Tire guy’s credit, despite my unconventional appearance I felt absolutely no partiality expressed in my hour of need.  He went to work and fixed up my tire as if I were Cinderella and didn't bat an eye about having to do it outside in the pouring rain. That was some amazing service above and beyond the call.

So to wrap up this somewhat frivolous post (hope you don't mind the frivolty, sometimes its just needful to laugh at ourselves)...if winter is begging you to make a change...and if it happens to be your hair... and you don’t want it to be too dramatic...do not get distracted by a flat tire issue and loose track of the time and emerge with highlights three shades lighter than you intended.

But if a TIRE change is what you need...I highly recommend Charlie’s Tires. They are FABULOUS and there is nothing frivolous about that!

Thanks Charlie’s Tire!!!!!

How about Yall?  Have you been the recipient of such great service that you would love to toot somebody's horn?  Share away.....We could all use a good tip!