Can you top this?
1. Health insurance company raised their rates. I just joined this month. Although I was told I had locked in last year's rates, this turns out to be false. An extra $82 per month now.
2. My car got hit by a bus. A school bus. Luckily, said bus only clipped off my driver's side mirror and made a few little scratches on the door, and all parties are A-OK. Bus driver was a very nice man, too, so if not for item #3, it would have been an interesting writerly encounter.
3. So now I have no driver's mirror, which makes the car undriveable. My dad duct taped it on as well as possible, but that's only enough to chance getting it to a repair shop. I've never actually used my car insurance before, and thus didn't realize that (a) I have a $1000 deductible, (b) they will cover 80% of a rental car, but that still means I need to pay 20%, and (c) they will not send an adjuster out for 8 days. I decide to just get the darn thing repaired anyway, when I discover that...
4. My car battery is stone cold dead and needs to be replaced.
5. The other day, I get a note on the door from the post office saying that there's an item with postage due that I need to pick up. It's from Harcourt. I think excitedly, "What could it be?" I don't recall sending a book proposal to Harcourt, so it's not a returned proposal. Maybe it's a book for review. Maybe it's a "We've heard how terrific you are and want to hire you, but we don't know your new phone number, so here's a contract" letter. I call the post office and find out they're closed already, but they tell me I can leave the money in an envelope in my box. $2.50 or so. Today, I get... their catalogue. I've just spent money so they can pitch me their books.
6. I buy the new Clinical Therapy Vaseline intensive rescue cream in "unscented," because I hate wearing scents. Turns out the darn thing is scented. It's scented like butt. Perspiring butt.
7. I lost my winter hat, which may be the only item of clothing I bought for myself this winter. It was cool, too.
8. My college roommate and his wonderful wife, who I haven't seen in a year, had to cancel their visit to see me because it snowstormed that day.
9. I have run out of cookies.
Okay, show me your cards.
1. Health insurance company raised their rates. I just joined this month. Although I was told I had locked in last year's rates, this turns out to be false. An extra $82 per month now.
2. My car got hit by a bus. A school bus. Luckily, said bus only clipped off my driver's side mirror and made a few little scratches on the door, and all parties are A-OK. Bus driver was a very nice man, too, so if not for item #3, it would have been an interesting writerly encounter.
3. So now I have no driver's mirror, which makes the car undriveable. My dad duct taped it on as well as possible, but that's only enough to chance getting it to a repair shop. I've never actually used my car insurance before, and thus didn't realize that (a) I have a $1000 deductible, (b) they will cover 80% of a rental car, but that still means I need to pay 20%, and (c) they will not send an adjuster out for 8 days. I decide to just get the darn thing repaired anyway, when I discover that...
4. My car battery is stone cold dead and needs to be replaced.
5. The other day, I get a note on the door from the post office saying that there's an item with postage due that I need to pick up. It's from Harcourt. I think excitedly, "What could it be?" I don't recall sending a book proposal to Harcourt, so it's not a returned proposal. Maybe it's a book for review. Maybe it's a "We've heard how terrific you are and want to hire you, but we don't know your new phone number, so here's a contract" letter. I call the post office and find out they're closed already, but they tell me I can leave the money in an envelope in my box. $2.50 or so. Today, I get... their catalogue. I've just spent money so they can pitch me their books.
6. I buy the new Clinical Therapy Vaseline intensive rescue cream in "unscented," because I hate wearing scents. Turns out the darn thing is scented. It's scented like butt. Perspiring butt.
7. I lost my winter hat, which may be the only item of clothing I bought for myself this winter. It was cool, too.
8. My college roommate and his wonderful wife, who I haven't seen in a year, had to cancel their visit to see me because it snowstormed that day.
9. I have run out of cookies.
Okay, show me your cards.
Ohh. You gotta love that.
