This hasn't really been my week.
Can I rewind and start again?
The run-down:
Sunday -- I was lying in bed and had removed my glasses and put them on my bedside table. Enzo came in and picked them up, said he wanted me to put them on, and as I was reaching for them, he pulled on the side and broke the metal part that holds the part that goes over your ear (I'm sure there's a name for it, but I don't know it and I'm feeling too lazy to look.) It's embedded in the plastic beside the left lens and it attached the main glasses part to the hinge. There's no way that it can be fixed. I'm going to need to get new frames. Only problem is that my vision insurance only pays for new frames once every 2 years. Other than that, you pay retail cost minus 20%. Glasses for me get expensive, because I wear bifocals and I prefer the no-line lenses. The current pair would have cost almost $400 if I had paid retail for them, but with the insurance, it was only $125, and that was mostly because of the extra charge for the no-line bifocals. So at the moment, I have my glasses rigged up with some scotch tape. The ultimate nerd. I think the only thing that would make it more perfect would be if they had broken in the middle.
Wednesday -- this was a spectacular morning. First, I almost had a wreck. Last night was our first below-freezing night, and of course it had rained all day long yesterday. The result: ice patches this morning. Arkansans do not know how to drive in wintry conditions. I had dropped Julian and Enzo off already, and was heading to work myself. I was on a 4 lane street with a middle turn lane. I'm in the left lane of the 2 lanes in my direction, and beside me is a white SUV. I see that there is ice on the road ahead, covering both lanes of traffic, so I slow down, knowing that all of my wheels are going to lose traction and I'll slide a bit. Does the SUV take the same precaution? No. I don't know if the driver didn't see it, or just had the SUV-driver mentality that 4 wheel drive will take care of anything. So the SUV loses control and skids in front of me, across my lane, the turn lane, and both lanes of oncoming traffic and ends up in some grass on the other side of the road. Luckily for them, there was no traffic coming at that time, or it could have been really bad. From my perspective, I suddenly had a SUV directly in front of me, that had I not applied my brakes, I would have hit in the driver's side door. Applying brakes while on ice is not a good thing. I then lost control of my vehicle and skidded in the other direction, across the lane where the SUV came from, jumped the curb and sidewalk, and ended up in a parking lot about a foot from a large metal signpost. My heart was racing, and I was shaking. I got out to make sure that there wasn't any damage to my car and then got back in and sat there for a few minutes to steady my nerves. I was going to be late for work because of this idiot, so I reached for my cell phone to call and let them know what was going on. I couldn't find my phone. I panicked, and then remembered that I had left it on the counter in the kitchen last night. I don't live very far from where I work, so I stopped at home first to pick up my cell phone. When I retrieved it from the counter, the first thing I noticed was that the display on the outside of the phone wasn't working. I thought that my battery had probably died during the night, so I attempted to turn it on. It buzzed, giving me the signal that it was powering off. Still nothing on the screen. I flip the phone open and notice that the inside screen has water visible inside it. I turn the phone to the side and water literally ran out of the inside of the phone. Damn. My phone was still technically usable at this point. It would come on and I was able to make calls. I just couldn't verify the numbers I was dialing, since I had no display. By lunch, it wouldn't even stay powered on. So I spent 45 minutes of my hour-long lunch in the cell phone store replacing my phone. The one good thing: I did get a nicer phone, and the guy in the store was able to replace the battery so that he could transfer my phone book info to the new phone.
I have two days left in the work week for things to get better. I'm trying to be optimistic. Surely things couldn't be much worse than this.
The run-down:
Sunday -- I was lying in bed and had removed my glasses and put them on my bedside table. Enzo came in and picked them up, said he wanted me to put them on, and as I was reaching for them, he pulled on the side and broke the metal part that holds the part that goes over your ear (I'm sure there's a name for it, but I don't know it and I'm feeling too lazy to look.) It's embedded in the plastic beside the left lens and it attached the main glasses part to the hinge. There's no way that it can be fixed. I'm going to need to get new frames. Only problem is that my vision insurance only pays for new frames once every 2 years. Other than that, you pay retail cost minus 20%. Glasses for me get expensive, because I wear bifocals and I prefer the no-line lenses. The current pair would have cost almost $400 if I had paid retail for them, but with the insurance, it was only $125, and that was mostly because of the extra charge for the no-line bifocals. So at the moment, I have my glasses rigged up with some scotch tape. The ultimate nerd. I think the only thing that would make it more perfect would be if they had broken in the middle.
Wednesday -- this was a spectacular morning. First, I almost had a wreck. Last night was our first below-freezing night, and of course it had rained all day long yesterday. The result: ice patches this morning. Arkansans do not know how to drive in wintry conditions. I had dropped Julian and Enzo off already, and was heading to work myself. I was on a 4 lane street with a middle turn lane. I'm in the left lane of the 2 lanes in my direction, and beside me is a white SUV. I see that there is ice on the road ahead, covering both lanes of traffic, so I slow down, knowing that all of my wheels are going to lose traction and I'll slide a bit. Does the SUV take the same precaution? No. I don't know if the driver didn't see it, or just had the SUV-driver mentality that 4 wheel drive will take care of anything. So the SUV loses control and skids in front of me, across my lane, the turn lane, and both lanes of oncoming traffic and ends up in some grass on the other side of the road. Luckily for them, there was no traffic coming at that time, or it could have been really bad. From my perspective, I suddenly had a SUV directly in front of me, that had I not applied my brakes, I would have hit in the driver's side door. Applying brakes while on ice is not a good thing. I then lost control of my vehicle and skidded in the other direction, across the lane where the SUV came from, jumped the curb and sidewalk, and ended up in a parking lot about a foot from a large metal signpost. My heart was racing, and I was shaking. I got out to make sure that there wasn't any damage to my car and then got back in and sat there for a few minutes to steady my nerves. I was going to be late for work because of this idiot, so I reached for my cell phone to call and let them know what was going on. I couldn't find my phone. I panicked, and then remembered that I had left it on the counter in the kitchen last night. I don't live very far from where I work, so I stopped at home first to pick up my cell phone. When I retrieved it from the counter, the first thing I noticed was that the display on the outside of the phone wasn't working. I thought that my battery had probably died during the night, so I attempted to turn it on. It buzzed, giving me the signal that it was powering off. Still nothing on the screen. I flip the phone open and notice that the inside screen has water visible inside it. I turn the phone to the side and water literally ran out of the inside of the phone. Damn. My phone was still technically usable at this point. It would come on and I was able to make calls. I just couldn't verify the numbers I was dialing, since I had no display. By lunch, it wouldn't even stay powered on. So I spent 45 minutes of my hour-long lunch in the cell phone store replacing my phone. The one good thing: I did get a nicer phone, and the guy in the store was able to replace the battery so that he could transfer my phone book info to the new phone.
I have two days left in the work week for things to get better. I'm trying to be optimistic. Surely things couldn't be much worse than this.
posted by carrie at 12/01/2004 09:20:00 p.m.
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