The plan was to vote, go grocery shopping, then change the rusty rear bumper on my truck and make a video of that for class.
Voting went fine. As anticipated, so many people voted early, that there was very little line. A byproduct I noticed at the polling place of Illinois making election day a holiday, was the average age of the polling place workers was down about 60% from elections past.
Then it was time for grocery shopping. We shop at Aldi, which recently rearranged the whole damn store, do that makes things take a lot longer. Then I get out to the truck to nag it all, and I realize that I forgot the bags. So that was a huge pain to unload and bring the groceries in loose.
Then the real party started. I got all set up, all the tools in place, the camera ready, I climb under and find this.
If you’re not sure what you’re looking at, that’s understandable. It’s the right side of my trailer hitch, with a nice big rust hole in it.
The left side actually looked a lot better. Until I poked it ever so gently with a screwdriver. That big chunk of David Tracy bait in my top pic fell off, and revealed a much bigger hole.
So, yeah. I’m going to have to order a new trailer hitch, and rip apart the whole back end. Definitely no towing untill this is replaced.
On the bright side, the weather was beautiful today, and I got a ton of yardwork done.