It's a beautiful day today in Seattle - warm, sunny, and clear! Yesterday was kind of a weird day. John and I went on a driving tour of Seattle. He showed me the University of Washington, we went to Gasworks Park, we went to the U district, to Fremont, around Wallingford (where they live), Queen Anne, and Downtown. Unfortunately our tour got cut short because we stopped by the shop where John and Kelly had their car towed the night before, and found out there were serious problems with it. Their 2006 Jetta needs a new transmission and some other stuff I can't remember (an axle?). Needless to say, John wasn't much in the mood for touring after that.
I tried to make him feel better by sharing some of my outrageous car stories, like the time my brand new car and bike got stolen from my gated community in Houston and the insurance company refused to total it out and then dropped me and the only insurance I could get cost $500 a month, which is more than I was paying for rent at the time, and then got a huge rental truck while it was being repaired, only to sideswipe the dreaded pole next to my parking space (it wasn't the first accident I had with that stupid pole) 30 minutes after receiving the truck, or the time when I was on my way back to St. Mary's with Hannah and Ali and I swerved to miss a dead dear and ended up in a ditch and Hannah's dad had to come with some sort of contraption attached to his Expedition to pull my car out of the ditch, or the time when my friend Mark came to visit me in Houston and then on his way out of town, he called me to say that he totaled his car three hours north of Houston and needed me to pick him up (on a Sunday night before I had even started my lesson plans, of course) and so I did, or at least I tried to, except that then I got in the same exact accident in the same exact place and totaled my car.
Anyway, I dropped John off at home and then continued the tour on my own. On my way back from the tour, I stopped by Trader Joe's to get some stuff to make dinner. We made dinner together (it was SO good!) and then watched an episode of This American Life and Arrested Development.
Today I really am going to the Experience Music Project, so I should get going.
ttyl
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ReplyDeleteYou did have so many car problems in Houston! I remembered your Jeep getting stolen, but I had forgotten about your friend Mark's accident and your subsequent copycat accident. Why wouldn't the insurance company pay for your car and bike? Did they claim it was insurance fraud?
ReplyDelete(that was my comment above - realized you probably wouldn't know who "boston" was)