I'm seriously considering becoming a luddite again.
At first things seemed to improve: the laptop was finally fixed; a new router and printer and scanner were acquired; all seemed well.
But then with spring I decided it was time to turn my attentions to my car. Especially what with me needing to drive it about 6000 miles starting in the next few weeks.
First I decided to finally get the chip in my windshield fixed. I'd actually called my insurance company about it in August. But then I got busy with school, and then there was three feet of snow on it, so I never got around to getting it repaired. Until now.
About a week ago I called the first people on the list of people the insurance company recommended, and they said they could come out on Wednesday. That was several days off, which seemed like a while to wait, but I was free then, so ok. But then on Wednesday it was raining, and they can't replace the windshield when it's raining because the glue won't dry. ("It would be like holding the windshield in using scotch tape," a technician told me.) So they couldn't come that day, and the next available appointment was on Monday.
Alarmed that this was now threatening to drag on even longer than I'd already forced it to drag on, and concerned that the company wasn't trying very hard, I left it (I thought) that they would come by again Monday, but in the meantime, I hedged my bets and called another company that said it could come today. BUT THEN! The first company actually turned up on yesterday! Huzzah! Such customer service! But alas, he only had a windshield with tinting, and I didn't want that. So he promised to come back next Tuesday with a clear one.
Of course, I still had the appointment for today with the other company. Who came. Also with a window with tinting. So he too left, and promised to call to reschedule next week.
I feel kind of bad about two-timing the glass repairers, but at this point, the first company to show up with the right windshield is going to get the business.
To be sure, I could have avoided the delay entirely if on Wednesday I'd just driven the car into the shop. However, that would have required ALL the wheels of my car to spin. Sadly, only 75% of them do. Thus rendering the car pretty much useless. They may have built the ancient pyramids in Egypt without the help of the wheel, but without four functioning ones my car isn't going anywhere.
So add "making car go" to the list of things that need attending to.
Meanwhile, my VCR is making frightening noises and threatening to eat my Huey Lewis and the News videotapes, which is extremely unsporting of it.
I suspect it's in cahoots with the car.
Comments (4)
> I suspect it's in cahoots with the car.
Only if the CD player is eating all your Huey Lewis CDs. Otherwise, I think it's just normal wear and tear.
Posted by Koichi | April 29, 2005 10:51 PM
Posted on April 29, 2005 22:51
It's the car tape deck that's been eating tapes. I don't have a car CD player, which is just as well because I seem to have lost all my CDs.
Add that to the list of aggravations...
(BTW, the VCR isn't all that old.)
Posted by Cathy | April 30, 2005 7:17 AM
Posted on April 30, 2005 07:17
Actually, you could probably mark that up to commoditization.
I remember way back when VCRs were luxury items, and they weighed more than a cheap microwave. (God, I'm old.) But now they weigh about as much as a small boom box, if not less. They used to be made of special technology, so great care was taken into the production of those things. Man, those big huge boxes were so well made, they could stop the Spanish Inquisition. These little wimpy modern-day models, where now anyone with a high school tech degree could make one, I swear, if you feed it an extra-long three-hour tape, it'll break down because it's only designed to take the weight of a 2-hour tape.
Not that Huey Lewis concerts should last three hours.
You don't mean you even lost the CDs that we spent all that time hoofing through Tokyo just so you could get that that edition of Fore! that, as far as we know, had been sitting in the used CD store since last century?
Posted by Koichi | April 30, 2005 9:05 AM
Posted on April 30, 2005 09:05
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition...
I lost *all* my CDs. Well, at least all the heavily-played ones I had in my CD carrier, which I can't find. I think it had the Fore! CD we bought, but not all the others. Although on retrospect I wish I had bought PlanB because apparently the Japanese version has a live track on it I didn't otherwise have. And now definitely don't have.
BTW, a HLN concert may not last three hours, but it SHOULD.
Posted by Cathy | April 30, 2005 9:14 AM
Posted on April 30, 2005 09:14