Oh, I meant to say, YAY TO SEE THE WONDERFUL DEENA! BUt my cursing got in the way. It didn't seem right to put your name in the same post as all that bitterness...

Hee! I dunno, gotta take the good with the bad my gran always used to say. (I'm lying, I can't recall who used to say that, though she did have some pithy sayings, usually also completely politically incorrect, except for the one about snot on a glass doorknob, that one was just gross.)

IOW, NORA!

Happy Birthday, Aimee!

That's a bummer, Nora. But you'd need that A/C fixed sometime, right? And nothing's gone wrong on the car, yet. I understand the frustration and the worry, but if you're going to worry about it now will you be able to not worry aout it later?

Have I mentioned that I love the name Pookah? Because I do. Pookah Pookah Pookah! Sit, Pookah, sit - good dog. Fun to say.

sj! Nice to see you this morning. I have work to do, tell me to go do it.

I would say stay and play with us, but I actually have to go call my therapist. He is going to do a phone session with me so I don't have to kill anyone this week.

{{{Nora}}} I think car repair people should have to eat the cost when they don't call first to see if you want repairs done.

Happy Birthday Aimee!

That is good news about StE. That is much faster than are friend C. I'm hopeful.

ans the only thing I can say Nora is that it will make the car more resellable. but if you need meto smack someone , I will.

Nora! I can't believe that they did the job without consulting you!

Because I would so do w/o the AC - of course, I am a carless woman who lives in an apartment w/o AC.

Oh, it's the car A/C? I tak back some of my pollyannaness - for some reason I was thinking it was the house A/C and the car issue was separate. My bad.

I think car repair people should have to eat the cost when they don't call first to see if you want repairs done.

I believe this is actually THE LAW.

But you'd need that A/C fixed sometime, right? And nothing's gone wrong on the car, yet.

I don't know. We have a good chance of buying another car if something huge goes wrong on this one. Also, I really think of AC as a luxury. But Tom's the one who drives the car and deals with the mechanic so I really don't have much of a say in this.

It's just my same old impotent rage at feeling like I'm being screwed.

I believe this is actually THE LAW

Really? I'm owed a lot of back money then. Now I always say about twenty times, "You're going to call before you do anything, right?"