I'd worked all this out last year. I was walking to work, and it was lovely. Four miles a day across the exquisite Taft Bridge in Washington, D.C. But no more.
In a nutshell, my mornings and evenings involve a job in the heart of downtown, a middle-school on the other side of town, and a dog who desperately has to pee somewhere in between. So I'm driving.
And guess what? Sometime between 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, when I put my car in the hands of the gentlemen who park it each day, and 4:00 p.m. the same day, when I went to retrieve it, the parking gear magically stopped working. And guess what else? I can file any freaking claim I want (they even have a form for it) but it will do no good unless I choose to sue because the garage doesn't consider claims for engine trouble, just body work.
Oh but wait--what is that mysterious dripping sound I hear on Friday morning? Why, I believe it is the sound of the water heater I installed last August already springing a leak!
What's that you say? I've got more houseguests this weekend? I'll be giving them the 3-star treatment.
So the good news in all this is I paid off my credit card debt and saved almost $100 this week.
The bad news is I will have new credit card debt next week.
The Taft bridge is looking pretty good right now. Too good.
the Hos (no key for certina letters in this here her typewrityer which I borrow from her as impertinent gesst) gest--Carol Edelstein & Robin Barber from the wilds of Northampton, Massachsetts) writes:
ReplyDeleteShe Miss Lisa claims she is going into debt but then when we have supper arriving with two additional gests she didn't invite on prpose who both drink her wine and beer she insists on picking up the tab so what kind of saver cold she really be. Now yo get a prize for figreing which letter is missing from the keyboard. I will say despite the lack of hot water the accomodation gets 5 stars de to the hostess, her daghter and the Qality of The Bed which was her own (without her in it). Now if she ever comes to Northampton Massachsetts she will get the royal reception yo can bet. Sincerely from cje on Lisa's own compter in her kitchen with Cobber checking my work.
Carol & Robin - i miss u already.
ReplyDeletecobber is an atrocious proofreader.
and i am too cheap to buy a new keyboard, but never too cheap to treat my friends.