Who'd a thunk I'd spend my first couple of days of retirement running about getting teeth done and having a booboo on the car looked at. Mind you, the reason I haven't had the booboo on the car fixed before now is that it really hasn't been urgent. The car works fine. It was one of those nasty light pole things. I had gone to get Vietnamese subs for supper on my way home from school last spring and I parked beside a light pole. When I came to pull out I didn't realize that there was a base on the stupid thing that was much below my eye level. Scrrrrrrrape, you know the ominous sound, all down the side and the front bumper.
Just a little paint I thought. Wrong. Apparently they will need to replace part of the frame on the one side and that ain't a gonna be cheap. Also I needed to fill out a police report and get a damage sticker. Had I been teaching, all this would have been a major pain in the butt since I wouldn't have been available to sit on hold on the phone and wouldn't have been able to take calls from the various people involved. Being retired it's more of a 'ho hum this is a bit more complicated than I thought but oh well.' I'm hoping to be able to go from initial estimate to getting a date booked to take the car in to be fixed within two or three days. That, is getting everything organized, not actually getting the car in in that length of time.
I don't have a photo to go along with the blog today. I'm trying to make it a little less text heavy but I like to write. Thanks to Robin for pointing out in the last blog entry that the picture of Richard's lathe-tool holder complete with tools is right next to the text about getting my teeth cleaned. I howled when she pointed that out. So, just to set the record straight, the picture is of wood-turning tools, not teeth-cleaning ones. I'll try to move the picture to a more appropriate spot but I may need some coaching on HTML coding to do that. In the meantime, enjoy the amusing justaposition.
Let me see, what shall I do next......
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