It's So Shiny!
Oct. 1st, 2015 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anonymoose_au10:31pm: I'm just watching the recording of Homes Under the Hammer and the buyers of this particular house have laid the shiniest kitchen floor I've ever seen! Woooow. Although, I have to wonder how long that shininess would last. Probably not very long if I lived there, LOL, but man whoever buys that place, better love mopping!
But there's something that's not so shiny right now...and that is Dad's car...this morning proved to be a bit rushed, when I realised to my horror as I got in the shower that I'd left my necklace in the locker room at the swimming pool yesterday! Again!
Now, as you all know this happened before and I never found the necklace and needed to replace it, which lucky for me only cost like 40 bucks. All the same though, I couldn't believe that it had happened again! Perhaps there was still a chance it would still be in the locker I used. So I hurried to get ready and jumped into the car and headed for the swimming pool.
Anyway, to make a long story short I had the magnificent luck to find the necklace, charms in tact in the locker and I had enough time to get from there to Mrs S house, arriving on time even though I was starting half an hour earlier than usual. However...when as I walked up the driveway to Mrs S's I looked over my shoulder to make sure that the car was locked when I noticed...
Scratches! A huge wide scrape on the rear bumper on the passenger side! I could hardly believe my eyes! But I closer look confirmed it! Someone had side-swiped the car! It must have happened yesterday in the parking lot of the library because that was the only time the car was in a position to be hit on the side. Seriously though, is life kidding me?!
There wasn't much I could do about it, except take a photo and send it to Mum. She tried to call me, but I couldn't answer since work had started by then, but I did hear my phone since it doesn't go into silent mode until 8:30, so that sucked.
Anyway, after work I had to pop home and change clothes because I planned to continue onto the library after going to the parentals - Mum left me a SMS saying I should come by so she and Dad could look it over. However, Dad wasn't there when I arrived, he'd gone to do some work at school and wouldn't be back before I had to leave.
Mum took a look at the scrape though and gave me the bad news that it didn't look like it could just be buffed out and painted over by Dad, so I had to look up some car repairers, I found two, one of whom was a mobile person, so I had to send some photos to him and he said he'd give me a quote and the other place - which had the funny name of Lord of the Dings did operate from a workshop so I had to drive to it.
Mum thought it would be cost about $150 or thereabouts, but the Lord of the Dings guy took a look and quoted me $500 and two days work! Son of a bitch! $500 for a couple of scrapes?That's bullshit, Terry. But seriously, that's so expensive! I don't have that kind of money! I mean I do...but that's money I'm saving for my own car.
The other man hasn't got back to me, but I don't know if he'll have a better quote for me...
What a mess! Even worse I can't be sure it was some random jerk who side-swiped me or if I may have done it myself. I'm sure I didn't though...so now I have to pay for some asshole who ran off? Now I know I once did something similar, but only because I was sure I hadn't damaged anything and though it turned out I had someone had taken my number plate so the cops ended up tracking me down, or rather my father. But the point is, in the end I paid for the damage - although I probably shouldn't have for the car that was behind the car I backed into - that guy should have had his parking brake on...isn't that the law? But it doesn't seem I'll be so lucky.
And now it's way passed my bedtime because I have to start work half an hour earlier again because Mrs. S needs to get to the city by 12:30pm, so on that note I better be off.
Commiserations on my car issue would be welcome.
And to add insult to injury my lower abdomen has being a complete ass to me since the afternoon, I took some paracetamol, but it hasn't done shit. Boo.
Goodnight all!
But there's something that's not so shiny right now...and that is Dad's car...this morning proved to be a bit rushed, when I realised to my horror as I got in the shower that I'd left my necklace in the locker room at the swimming pool yesterday! Again!
Now, as you all know this happened before and I never found the necklace and needed to replace it, which lucky for me only cost like 40 bucks. All the same though, I couldn't believe that it had happened again! Perhaps there was still a chance it would still be in the locker I used. So I hurried to get ready and jumped into the car and headed for the swimming pool.
Anyway, to make a long story short I had the magnificent luck to find the necklace, charms in tact in the locker and I had enough time to get from there to Mrs S house, arriving on time even though I was starting half an hour earlier than usual. However...when as I walked up the driveway to Mrs S's I looked over my shoulder to make sure that the car was locked when I noticed...
Scratches! A huge wide scrape on the rear bumper on the passenger side! I could hardly believe my eyes! But I closer look confirmed it! Someone had side-swiped the car! It must have happened yesterday in the parking lot of the library because that was the only time the car was in a position to be hit on the side. Seriously though, is life kidding me?!
There wasn't much I could do about it, except take a photo and send it to Mum. She tried to call me, but I couldn't answer since work had started by then, but I did hear my phone since it doesn't go into silent mode until 8:30, so that sucked.
Anyway, after work I had to pop home and change clothes because I planned to continue onto the library after going to the parentals - Mum left me a SMS saying I should come by so she and Dad could look it over. However, Dad wasn't there when I arrived, he'd gone to do some work at school and wouldn't be back before I had to leave.
Mum took a look at the scrape though and gave me the bad news that it didn't look like it could just be buffed out and painted over by Dad, so I had to look up some car repairers, I found two, one of whom was a mobile person, so I had to send some photos to him and he said he'd give me a quote and the other place - which had the funny name of Lord of the Dings did operate from a workshop so I had to drive to it.
Mum thought it would be cost about $150 or thereabouts, but the Lord of the Dings guy took a look and quoted me $500 and two days work! Son of a bitch! $500 for a couple of scrapes?
The other man hasn't got back to me, but I don't know if he'll have a better quote for me...
What a mess! Even worse I can't be sure it was some random jerk who side-swiped me or if I may have done it myself. I'm sure I didn't though...so now I have to pay for some asshole who ran off? Now I know I once did something similar, but only because I was sure I hadn't damaged anything and though it turned out I had someone had taken my number plate so the cops ended up tracking me down, or rather my father. But the point is, in the end I paid for the damage - although I probably shouldn't have for the car that was behind the car I backed into - that guy should have had his parking brake on...isn't that the law? But it doesn't seem I'll be so lucky.
And now it's way passed my bedtime because I have to start work half an hour earlier again because Mrs. S needs to get to the city by 12:30pm, so on that note I better be off.
Commiserations on my car issue would be welcome.
And to add insult to injury my lower abdomen has being a complete ass to me since the afternoon, I took some paracetamol, but it hasn't done shit. Boo.
Goodnight all!
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Date: 2015-10-02 02:57 am (UTC)