my poor car :(
Monday, 31 January 2011 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yatiWhat I have right now is a headache.
Soooo. I have a car in the workshop and it will be stuck there for two weeks. I feel like banging my head against the desk.
Had dinner with my sister yesterday, since it was her birthday. It was a rather nice dinner, too. Unfortunately it was a rainy day and the road was slippery and the guy behind us was a bit too close and hit the brakes a bit too late, so he hit my car with a bang. Not hard enough to cause the airbags to deploy, but loud enough to make me think the whole car had fallen apart. It hadn't -- the left rear lights and bumper and things within that vicinity got sheared off and crumpled and broken pretty bad, but the car was still able to move. Now I get to deal with things like repairs and insurance and quite possibly negotiating public transport.
So there was a visit to the police station, and I must say I do not know how a place that empty can have service that slow. It seemed like we had to wait forever for a constable behind a computer to pass me a printout of my report. She didn't even have to type it out -- I had typed it out myself when I filed it; they have an online system. Which looked like it was designed in the 1990s.
I have no idea how I'm going to get to work the next two weeks. Two weeks! The repairs are taking that long (or maybe longer) because the workshop is closed most of this week for Chinese New Year. I took today off to deal with . . . things. Thursday and Friday are public holidays, so that's another two days I don't have to worry about. Tuesday and Wednesday . . . I wonder if I can get them to let me work from home, it's not like I have anything urgent that I need to finish from the office anyway.
I also have a headache from not enough sleep -- everything got settled around 1 am last night and then I was too agitated to fall asleep.
Arrrgh. The universe is conspiring against me.
Soooo. I have a car in the workshop and it will be stuck there for two weeks. I feel like banging my head against the desk.
Had dinner with my sister yesterday, since it was her birthday. It was a rather nice dinner, too. Unfortunately it was a rainy day and the road was slippery and the guy behind us was a bit too close and hit the brakes a bit too late, so he hit my car with a bang. Not hard enough to cause the airbags to deploy, but loud enough to make me think the whole car had fallen apart. It hadn't -- the left rear lights and bumper and things within that vicinity got sheared off and crumpled and broken pretty bad, but the car was still able to move. Now I get to deal with things like repairs and insurance and quite possibly negotiating public transport.
So there was a visit to the police station, and I must say I do not know how a place that empty can have service that slow. It seemed like we had to wait forever for a constable behind a computer to pass me a printout of my report. She didn't even have to type it out -- I had typed it out myself when I filed it; they have an online system. Which looked like it was designed in the 1990s.
I have no idea how I'm going to get to work the next two weeks. Two weeks! The repairs are taking that long (or maybe longer) because the workshop is closed most of this week for Chinese New Year. I took today off to deal with . . . things. Thursday and Friday are public holidays, so that's another two days I don't have to worry about. Tuesday and Wednesday . . . I wonder if I can get them to let me work from home, it's not like I have anything urgent that I need to finish from the office anyway.
I also have a headache from not enough sleep -- everything got settled around 1 am last night and then I was too agitated to fall asleep.
Arrrgh. The universe is conspiring against me.
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Date: 31 January 2011 04:03 am (UTC)Please do ask about working from home at least a little to give yourself a break from an already stressful situation. It can't hurt to ask!
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Date: 31 January 2011 05:26 am (UTC)I am asking right now!
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Date: 31 January 2011 05:39 am (UTC)I BET YOU COULD FIND A CHOCOBO ONE SOMEWHERE.
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Date: 31 January 2011 05:45 am (UTC):O So you actually stick these on the antenna? I thought maybe I had misunderstood, despite the not-so-ambiguous name.
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Date: 31 January 2011 05:59 am (UTC)I bet you could MAKE a chocobo one, even. Back when I first got a car, I had a lot of Spiderman ones, for some reason. I was not interested...in Spiderman...strange.
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Date: 31 January 2011 07:42 am (UTC)The things you learn!
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