Went out last night after Mom got home from work and went to get her some cigs. Well we tried to get to the place we normally go.

First off, they have a chunk of 635 closed to make repairs to the bridge that goes over the Missouri bridge, so to get to the places we need or want to go we take detours. And one of the detours sucks, in vain we tried to find another route to get to another bridge that crosses over the river and we failed. Of course the car temperature started to climb, it didn't help that closer to downtown there seems to be stop lights on every block....couple that with the fact Mom feels she can drive as if she's in the Indy 500 doesn't help. The heat, the hills and the stop and go traffic left us nearly overheating the car and so we pulled over and sat for a bit. Also add a truckload of construction that makes it impossible from getting from a to b.

Once we got started again, we decided to scrap trying to find a route to the other bridge and head to the video store to return some DVD's rented over the weekend and then go to the grocery store. While we headed that way we, turned the heater on and the cars temperature went down. If we hadn't hit seemingly every red light, hadn't hit the construction areas and Mom had gone a little easy on the car...I doubt the car would have gotten as hot as it did. But trying to explain stuff to Mom is not easy. Not to say she's stupid, because she isn't, but she feels that near home even in heat she can drive the car hard. I have to bite my tongue not to remark that unless she has a way to pay for a new car she outta take it easy. I don't think she'd talk to me for awhile is I said that.