The Brownest of Brown Days
I think I just lost the lucky horseshoe that's been hitching a ride in my pocket for the last couple of months.
Talk about crappy days; today was a gigantic brown turd.
It all started with me almost running of out gas because I didn't notice that my husband depleted the tank to fumes until I was well on my way. You know that panicky, sweaty feeling you get when the bright orange fuel light is on and you in the middle of traffic with visions of being that idiot on the evening news "There was a 10 mile back up on the 520 bridge because some idiot RAN OUT OF GAS" flashing through your head? That was me. So I zoom off and make it to a gas station. Then I noticed a nice coffee shop across the street. "Mmm, white mocha Americano" was my Pavlovian response. And I just happened to have my laptop with me (HA! convenient) so I park and run over to have a cup of coffee and get some work done. An hour later, I'm warm and caffeinated and ready to go home and eat dinner. I go across the street only to find that my car is gone. Bawh!
It was towed. :(
The sign for that part of the street saying "no parking between 4-6 pm" had fallen down and was lying by the fence in the Domino's Pizza parking lot. Doh. So it's dark and it's rush hour and I don't have the phone and I don't have my watch because the strap on it broke yesterday. So I spend the next two and a half hours being that annoying person at the coffee shop who needs to use the phone every twenty minutes (note that I don't have my watch so I have to ask for the time), trying to figure out which towing company towed my car (it took over an hour for the car to show up anywhere because apparently they must've JUST towed it when I discovered it was gone), getting a cab, waiting for the cab, getting across town, waiting in line at the towing yard (you know how many people were there?!?!), only to find a big old scratch on the side of the car. The car that I just washed yesterday and didn't have a mark there. And on top of it all, I got fined because the tow truck had to be a flat bed because the car is a manual. Then I got a city parking ticket. alsdfkj.
Now $200 later, I'm back home and very hungry and grumpy.
Gah. I'm going to bed soon because that will mean today is offically over.
At least the car wasn't stolen. And at least I wasn't the idiot on the evening news who stopped traffic.
ETA: Oh, and I forgot to add that amongst all of this the wireless card for my laptop must've got crushed because it's now D-E-D dead.
ETA: Oh, and now all my USB ports on my laptop aren't working, which means no mouse, no printing, no backing up my hard drive or saving files to memory sticks, and no synching my iPod. This computer has instantaneously turned into a dead end street. Merde. Didn't I just spend $400 to get this thing fixed? *pounds head*
Does anyone know if my wireless issue and the USB post issue are likely related? *tiny voice* Help?