Budget called her the day before yesterday to inform her that there were no trucks available. Apparantly when she called to reserve a truck, did not actually qualify as a "reservation."

This has happened every single time I, or a loved one, has tried to rent a truck. Except, in my world, you don't get the courtesy call...just the blank stare from the counter person upon arrival...and then the 3-5 hour ordeal of calling another store for a truck, offering to rent the manager's suv, begging and general rending of cloth.

This is one for the plus column, where long relationships are concerned. You find yourself on the path to argument, but then take a look at the horizon and landmarks, and realize you're not trail-blazing. You're not even walking on a path. You're on a paved road, four lanes wide to a place neither of you wants to end up, so you reverse direction yourself.

This is something that our rabbi told is in the marriage seminar thing we did before we got married - that those arguments you have over and over become a familiar and comforting part of the relationship. Weird but true.

{{Daisy Jane}} Hope you are feeling better this morning. I haven't had to deal with the "boys night out" thing, really, but I've had lots of fights that I can't even remember what they were about, I was mostly mad because whatever I was originally mad about wasn't being taken seriously, and they suck.

Head~ma for Cashmere's twin.

Chopping onions is DH's job. He's generally much better at chopping than I am We're usually pretty in sync when it comes to directions. I control the remote almost exclusively. I am slowly training him to sort laundry to my stringent standards.

I have a friend whose son worked for UHAL this summer. and had people yell at him becasue there were no Trucks - and in every case, people hadn't returned them. The number of people that don't return them on time is huge. and the number of people that argue about paying for them when they keep them longer than expected is huge.

{{{Daisy Jane}}} I hope you're feeling better today. I like girls night out and I really miss them since T moved, but we never excluded guys from coming totally, just as long as it wasn't every week.

Kick's vw's landlords Warning: I am not responsible for my actions if I get anywhere near them tonight.

Emily, I hope today goes much smoother for you.

That makes mathic sense beth...still, it just seems like it happens every. single. time. I wonder if there is some sort of industry response that could change it. When we all have the flying cars we were promised, perhaps they'll invent a remote controlled, gps enabled system that shuts the truck down when your time is up. A team of repodudes shows up and all your Ikea 'Splorg' furniture are belong to them.

We had the "why are you going this way" fight at lunch today

Since we work together and live together we had to find a way around this one. If we are in my car, I drive and we go my way without comment. If we are in his car, we go his way without comment. This is particulary frustrating for him since I am totally random in my routing. I go the same places all the time, so I mix it up!

Oh, Beej, that is a totally clever solution to the moving problem. Timers on the trucks that turn the engine off. As long as they're not doing 55mph on the freeway or anything.

{{Daisy Jane}} I've no advice as I've been BF-less for years, now. Still, It was a sucky situation to find yourself in and dealing with the fallout isn't much better. I hope you do get to have a good talk with your DH to straighten it out.

vw, glad you're feeling better today. Man, your soon-to-be-ex-landlords make me want to commit something terrible upon their persons. I'm so angry at them, though, I can't think of what the worst thing I could do to them is! Nothing seems severe enough.

{{Cash!Twin}} Much pain-go-away~ma for Twin.

IOmeN, I have an eye doctor appointment today. I'm supposed to be on an annual schedule with this dude (he's a retina specialist), but I haven't seen him in four years. I'm willing to bet he wants to shoot me up with flourescent dye and take pictures inside the eyeball, again. Oh, joy. Not my favorite kind of appointment. The least they could do is give me a lollypop when it's all over.

Hi all! I've been up since 7 even though I don't have to be in school until tonight (it's parent orientation night). Damn this whole internal clock reset thing. Then again, I wouldn't be sleeping now anyway since the guys retrofitting the foundation to be earthquake-safe are drilling or jackhammering or something underneath the house. Needless to say, ND is calmly sleeping through this. That man can sleep through anything. It's rather amazing.

ION, getting paid again after two months of no paychecks is good. But...okay, so I knew that I was taking a paycut to come to the new school. But seeing what that means in cold, hard net pay? Ouch.

Oh gosh Sail...that sounds so...um...unpleasant. Perhaps necessary, but eesh. You make me feel like I dodged a huge bullet yesterday when I visited an eye doc for the first time is roughly 10 years. I'm having what Bing Crosby used to call 'tromboning' issues...age related far sightedness. (I blame my computer!) In the end, all I need is a good quality pair of reading glasses. (He did 'touch' my eye with that bright lighty thing and that was creepy...but injected dye? Oh my.)

The cheapest pair of frames, not actually glasses, the eye doc has are $150, even with my new found insurance! What is up with THAT?

Now I'm looking for a less expensive alternative...have you ever purchased glasses on line?

Yeah, me too. I guess her mom was quite horrible to her about it, saying, "Are you trying to tell me that there are NO moving trucks in the ENTIRE city of Boston?" Um, YES!

Labor Day weekend, and on the first of the month? I don't doubt it for a minute.

and the number of people that argue about paying for them when they keep them longer than expected is huge.

Ooh! Did I mention I did a Good Deed yesterday? This woman gets on the bus, doesn't have her monthly pass, and gets into this huge fight with the driver because she thinks it's wrong for the driver to make her pay when she already paid for the monthly pass. Which she didn't have.

Seriously, the bus sat there for almost ten minutes because this woman would neither pay nor get the fuck off the bus. And the bus driver was being very polite, but not budging - which, given what a bitch this girl was being, I totally support her in. People were trying to reason with her - or at least get her to pay so we could move - and she'd be all "yes, I'm very sorry that she [the driver] has decided to inconvenience you. Apparently she's having a bad day and has decided to take it out on all of us.." And on and on. And going into that really nasty, condescending kind of formality. "I'm sorry, I don't have time to argue with you [the driver] about this right now, but I'll certainly bring that up when I speak with your supervisor this afternoon." And you know she was going to do it, too.

So I noted the bus number and the first thing I did when I got into the office was call the CTA and get the opposing view on record first. The CTA lady was kind of boggled -

"So, she says she's going to file a complaint against the operator because...?"

"She forgot her card, yes."

"She didn't leave it on the bus, or anything..?"

"Nope, left it at home."

"So, she's going to file a complaint against the operator because she...forgot her own card?"

"Exactly."