Monday, January 15, 2007
What a week
So yeah, Im back to my old slacker ways. However, I did write many posts in my head over the last week. Lemmesee if I can remember any of them!
The one in which my car was stolen...
So I got home Wednesday night from a dinner meeting that made me very cranky. I drive up and see that there are no spots in front of my apartment so I have to go park over by the dumpster. I had another car that last winter got sick. The heater blower died, and it had an oil leak. I bought my new car without ever doing anything with this one. First, I couldnt find the title, and then, well, I just got lazy. But ironically, on the way home from work that day I was mentally composing my Craigslist post to sell it. I was going to list for 500 and let it go for 200, it was old, lots o miles, and in need of repair. So I pull into a space by the dumpster, and suddenly realize this was the space that my other car was parked in previously. But not anymore. Nope, that car was gone. Way to top off an already uber cranky mood! I figured that it wasnt REALLY stolen, that it was towed, but I was still pissed. (The fact that the car hadnt been started in months so probably had a dead battery, and by then most of the oil had probably leaked out so the thief wouldnt have gotten far was my first hint!)
The pathetic part is that I could not remember the last time I had noticed it actually being there! (it was towed 6 days earlier)
So I called the apartment complex in the morning and yes, it was towed. They switched dumpster companies and they needed all the cars over there moved so they could bring the new dumpster in. They claimed they put a note on it. Lovely. I called the place it was towed to and it was going to cost me $300 to get it back. I asked what if I just signed the title over to them? They said that'd do. Ok so I got rid of that other car, without having to go to the stress of trying to sell the POS. Of course I didnt make anything on it, but at least I didnt have to pay $300 to get it back to sell it for $200! And problem solved!
The post in which I talk about blessings in disguise...
Did you ever notice how sometimes bad shit seems to happen, but it turns out to really be a good thing? The mess with my car was like that. The problem was solved for me, and that's good. Also, I thought my good car's registration ran out at the end of January, but when I was looking in my wallet for the registration for the other, I saw it expired on 1/15. So that problem was adverted too!
Stuff like this has happened to me many times, which Ive posted about before to a point. The one that I never posted about was the roadtrip from hell that was really my guardian angel copiloting without me realizing it. I was moving from Arizona to Maryland, driving a big ol Budget truck, towing my car behind. Me and my 2 cats going cross country all by ourselves. I had it planned perfectly... I had friends at certain places across the country that I was going to stop at so I only had to pay for a hotel the first night, I was shooting for Winslow, AZ so I could stand on a corner there- I hear it's such a fine site to see.
Well the Budget people disagreed with my plan. When I first went to pick it up they had the wrong sized truck. They had the GINORMOUS truck from hell! They claimed they were upgrading me. I disagreed. I refused to drive an 18 wheeler sized monstrosity WITH my car towed behind, said reservations are just that, please get me my still-too-big-but-not-quite-as-scary sized! They said the closest was in Vegas. I said that'd do, I hadnt finished packing yet. But because of this, I didnt get to make it all the way to Winslow that night. I cant remember the town I did stop at, but I ate dinner at "Joe and Aggie's Cafe and Barbershop". I have the magnet to prove it. It rawked.
The next morning I was going to try and haul ass to make it to west TX where I had the first friend I was staying with. In the middle of the Acoma reservation I had a blowout on the truck. After calling from the Casino/Laundromat, and many hours later, and many miles BACKTRACKED and another quite amusing and long story Im not up for typing right now. Guess what though, didnt make it to west TX. Because of this though, Budget paid for every hotel across the country, and took $200 off the total cost.
I found out later that there were bad storms in Eastern NM that day that knocked out power to half the state. That power outage included gas pumps, I would have been stranded anyway. The storms moved to TX where I would have been in golf ball sized hail. In PA there was a big ol rock slide that shut down the Turnpike. I think there were other disasters I missed that I cant think of, but those are enough, arent they?
I missed all these problems because of what I thought was a horrible thing happening to me (the blowout). I saved TONS of money because of it. AND I had many funny stories to tell because of it.
So yeah, blessings in disguise rock.
The one in which I talk about Howard Jones...
Why is it that "No One is to Blame" is his most popular, most remembered song? I can name at least 20 that I like better than that one.
Ok that's it for now. I feel better about not posting for a week now :)
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how tragic - there are so many other better HJ songs than that one.
aren't blessings in disguise the greatest!