Dec. 11th, 2008

Car WTF?

Dec. 11th, 2008 08:53 pm
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So yesterday morning one of the car headlights went out again.  So is something in the wiring making the bulbs burn out?  Or did we get a faulty new bulb by coincidence?  The car will have to go back to the shop on Saturday to find out.

And today I got caught in a huge backup on 14 coming home.  It was awful, lasting miles and miles.  During the stupid thing, the guy behind me didn't pay attention at a critical moment when traffic was moving and when it stopped.  He rammed into me from behind.

Fortunately, I was in neutral and he wasn't going very fast, but it did jerk me around.  Oh, I was mad.  I saw him in my rearview mirror.  I made several "WTF are you doing?" gestures at him, and he made "I'm sorry!" gestures back.

When traffic paused again, I hopped out of the car and looked at the back.  The other driver, a guy in his 20s wearing a knit hat, got out of his car, too.  "Aw, man, I'm really sorry," he said.

I looked at the rear of my car.  "At least there doesn't seem to be any damage," I growled, and got back into my car.  The other guy drove a lot more contritely, keeping his distance the rest of the time.

The source of the backup turned out to be a single pair of surveyors who were blocking off one lane for about twenty feet.

I got home at 3:20 (instead of 3:00), starving  because my lunch is at 10:30, and I had no time to get a snack because I was already late for picking up the boys from school.

Trying not to have a bad end of the day here . . .


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