Yep. But I got a good lawyer rec from my chiropractor and have begun that fun process. I'm just so annoyed that it came to this. I spoke to my adjuster at Progressive (who, for the record, have been amazing throughout this whole process; I'd recommend them to anyone) today, and she sighed and said, "Oh [my real name], I know you were trying to avoid this. I can't recommend anything, but, off the record, they're being total pains and I'm glad you are getting a lawyer. Don't forget that you are entitled to PAIN AND SUFFERING too." (She's gotten to know me pretty well by now and has been really annoyed by the other insurance company.)
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Pix - May 31, 2011 2:00:43 pm PDT #22428 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
smonster - May 31, 2011 2:06:15 pm PDT #22429 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
The hard part is that sense of obligation that these things should go to someone who would remember who they belonged to and what they meant.
Yes, this.
God, so tired. Many many things gone from the house, some of which I got money for. Did manage to get a nap. More help coming tomorrow! Thank heavens for friends. Need to eat, change clothes and go socialize, have no energy to cook but shouldn't eat out. Pronouns gone. Made one last stop at the local hardware and said goodbye to the guy who's been at the cash register since I started as a carpenter in 1998, feeling a little sentimental about that. I liked having a hardware store where they know my name.
Steph L. - May 31, 2011 2:21:11 pm PDT #22430 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Pronouns gone.
Did you get rid of them on Craigslist?
Connie Neil - May 31, 2011 2:35:03 pm PDT #22431 of 30000
brillig
I'm glad Progressive is a good company, because we're trying to get money out of them when one of their drivers hit one of our cars. If Hubby hadn't lost the tow truck receipts . . .
Also, it's looking like this year's surgery will be on Hubby's hip. We haven't gone into that joint in a while, I suppose it was feeling neglected.
beekaytee - May 31, 2011 2:44:34 pm PDT #22432 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Don't get me started on car insurance companies!
But Pix, this I can offer:
When an insurance company pulled shenanigans over a rental car (on which I had purchased the additional insurance, natch) accident...that was not my fault, I eventually went to the Ohio State Insurance Board.
After battling for more than 6 extremely stressful months, the entire affair was miraculously resolved in A DAY.
All hail the consumer protection branch of a state trade org.
Not sure if California has the same, but I can't imagine that they don't offer some sort of recourse on the state level.
Nora Deirdre - May 31, 2011 2:47:58 pm PDT #22433 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Progressive (who, for the record, have been amazing throughout this whole process; I'd recommend them to anyone)
oh, good. This has been our insurance company since we moved here.
I liked having a hardware store where they know my name.
You may well again, this is like the smallest town masquerading as a city ever.
meara - May 31, 2011 3:47:07 pm PDT #22434 of 30000
Progressive (who, for the record, have been amazing throughout this whole process; I'd recommend them to anyone)
This is good to hear--I used to have them, and switched, but am contemplating going back because AllState has been a PITA (I haven't even had any claims!! And still!)
Zenkitty - May 31, 2011 7:39:02 pm PDT #22435 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I need more damned spoons. I have just enough spoons to look like I have all the spoons I need, but I don't. I run out of spoons well before all the milk is gone. Why don't I have more spoons?
meara - May 31, 2011 7:41:41 pm PDT #22436 of 30000
...Zen is that an actual spoon thing, or a disability-metaphor-spoons thing?
Cause if the former, I kept having that problem with forks. So I bought a dozen at Walmart for about $4. Now we run out of knives.
Cass - May 31, 2011 8:13:32 pm PDT #22437 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am so fucking out of spoons. I actually looked at my flatware drawer that was also out of spoons and ugh. Need more spoons. And to run my dishwasher. But mostly the metaphorical spoons.