03-25-2024, 08:49 PM
As it turned out, what I thought would take me 2 hours to do (drive to west palm and back, and get my car) required 2.5 hours just to get to West Palm (rental car needs gas, then we get stuck in a school zone letting out kids who are disrupting traffic, then we get stuck in rush hour traffic, and then, when we finally get on I-95, get stuck in a massive traffic jam about 10 miles long because of a multi-car pileup!)
So I left for a 4 PM appointment at 3 PM (thinking I would be 15 minutes early) and got there at 5:32 PM. Very nearly got in an accident trying to understand what the hell the rental car's navigation system was asking me to do while we were detouring. Thankfully, GF saw it and warned me in time.
Then I ended up with delays getting the delivery approved, but that went quickly, and then I couldn't figure out how to get the navigation to work. Got that solved, and immediately get lost because the navigation told me to turn as I am driving past the turn, and so I thought it was trying to route me to a different turn. Finally get to where I am going, only to discover it was the wrong Whole Foods (was trying to meet GF at a known location for parking close to the dinner spot) and I'm 8.8 miles too far South. Drive to the right one, and finally meet up with GF and we have not the pre-dinner snack we thought we were going to have, but a late dinner. Then I drive home and have to deal with various sizes of big trucks not paying attention, swerving in and out of their lanes, etc. etc.
I got home at ~9 PM. Then I had to deal with other stuff. It's a good thing I wasn't expecting to get anything done today, I guess now yesterday, because that's exactly what I accomplished. That was the most fucked up traffic I have ever seen in my 50 years of life!
But...
I got the car home, and managed to put many miles on it in the process. I have 3 days or up to 100 miles on the odometer to report any defects, and it has 78 miles on it now. I think it had like 9 or 15 when I first sat in it. So I can't go anywhere until I inspect the car tomorrow, because I was too low blood sugar to do it at the showroom. Because it took 2.5 hours to get there.
What a cluster fuck of a day! Very glad it's over. Unfortunately, I have been sick with some sort of low grade infection for about 5 days now, and it's had me slightly nauseous 24/7 the whole time, and I can't sleep when I feel like this. Whatever's going on, I'm ready for it to end. Yesterday.
Just venting. Hopefully I can get ME v3 published tomorrow.
So I left for a 4 PM appointment at 3 PM (thinking I would be 15 minutes early) and got there at 5:32 PM. Very nearly got in an accident trying to understand what the hell the rental car's navigation system was asking me to do while we were detouring. Thankfully, GF saw it and warned me in time.
Then I ended up with delays getting the delivery approved, but that went quickly, and then I couldn't figure out how to get the navigation to work. Got that solved, and immediately get lost because the navigation told me to turn as I am driving past the turn, and so I thought it was trying to route me to a different turn. Finally get to where I am going, only to discover it was the wrong Whole Foods (was trying to meet GF at a known location for parking close to the dinner spot) and I'm 8.8 miles too far South. Drive to the right one, and finally meet up with GF and we have not the pre-dinner snack we thought we were going to have, but a late dinner. Then I drive home and have to deal with various sizes of big trucks not paying attention, swerving in and out of their lanes, etc. etc.
I got home at ~9 PM. Then I had to deal with other stuff. It's a good thing I wasn't expecting to get anything done today, I guess now yesterday, because that's exactly what I accomplished. That was the most fucked up traffic I have ever seen in my 50 years of life!
But...
I got the car home, and managed to put many miles on it in the process. I have 3 days or up to 100 miles on the odometer to report any defects, and it has 78 miles on it now. I think it had like 9 or 15 when I first sat in it. So I can't go anywhere until I inspect the car tomorrow, because I was too low blood sugar to do it at the showroom. Because it took 2.5 hours to get there.
What a cluster fuck of a day! Very glad it's over. Unfortunately, I have been sick with some sort of low grade infection for about 5 days now, and it's had me slightly nauseous 24/7 the whole time, and I can't sleep when I feel like this. Whatever's going on, I'm ready for it to end. Yesterday.
Just venting. Hopefully I can get ME v3 published tomorrow.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
