Today's "Let Gary's Day Be Ruined So Others Can Learn This Valuable Lesson" Lesson

I've still got to get out my thinking cap and charts and graphs and diaries to figure all of it out...but whether or not it USED to be this way or not, AAA does NOT currently cover a person driving someone else's car unless YOU'RE a member...even if you have the other person's membership card in hand. Instead, the person whose membership it is (in my case, daddy) MUST BE PRESENT at the scene of Said Disabled Car. Yeah, so, like, if daddy was in Hawaii and I was driving his car and it broke down on 1&9 by Newark Airport at 3am, and I had HIS AAA card...apparently the car would have to sit there until daddy got home...and I'd risk death by Blood or Crip by walking home from there. No, that's NOT what happened today...but it could have last year. So now we're all feeling pretty dense. Especially me, as I pride myself on being an overall genius. And I DID have my own membership for years, so I should've known this. I'm just beyond baffled at my stupidity...riding around for ages with a complete false sense of security. Ugh. Thank GOD, though, that I never broke down in the dead of night miles from dad's residence. Holy FUCKING catastrophe averted! *I will now be getting my own card again ASAP, and I've also learned that AAA WILL get you on the Parkway or Turnpike (a longstanding family debate)...but only a certified tow truck can come get you to drag you off the road...then you'll have to call AAA a second time to be towed ALL the way home. Whatever...as long as i'm not trapped in Linden at 3am. So, see, this experience has actually brought about positive change and relevant information. Glad I could share it all with you. Things could've been MUCH, MUCH worse.