Just when you think you've had enough bad luck that you should be able to win the lottery with the free ticket a stranger gives you, good ole Murphy's Law decides to stay for a visit. To recount:
2 nights ago, the furnace dies. The repairman manages to get it restarted over the phone, saving me the $120 + labor and parts not under warranty after hours emergency rate, but still in need of the regular $60 yatta yatta yatta rate.
yesterday morning, after nowhere near enough sleep, I was on my way home from driving Tom to work at a little before 9, I heard some strange rattling crunching sound under my car, and it died. I managed to pull off Far Hills into the entrance of one of the medical buildings (blocking the entire thing), and carried my 2 year old son up to the building. (since it was supposed to be like a 30 min round trip and we had woken him up to get him in the car, he had no shoes or diaper bag) After convincing the pathology lab to let me in to use the phone (my cell was laying dead at home), it took 3 frazzled calls to get Tom on the phone to get his AAA number. The plus side? Will was well behaved and had every woman in the office fawning all over him, and AAA pulled a truck off another call to come get us.
once I got my car to the repair shop, they told me they'd be able to get to the car tomorrow (that's today for those keeping track). so far so good. The mother in law took off work to come get us and take us home. about the time we were 4 minutes from my house, I realized that I had no key. Being as it didn't occur to either of us to return to the repair shop and get the key, we drove back to Tom at work. He wasn't there and didn't have his cell phone (hence why I couldn't get ahold of him at first), so I wound up getting to spend the entire day over at the condo. Thrilling. And even better, on the way over, she confides in me that she's leaving her husband come New Years. The same guy I get to go spend the day with...
After finally getting home, I get to help shovel out the driveway and Tom's car from under the 16" of snow and ice. It took nearly an hour to get feeling back into my toes.
So today, I hear back on my car. It blew the transmission. A new one would cost more that the car is worth. A good used one costs just over $1250 installed after tax and will hopefully be done Friday.
Well, having vented somewhat, I need to go get ready for work. Since I had to take yesterday off, what should only take 1 day to do will now take 2. I'm going to scream. Then, I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket. Murphy, go f*ck yourself.
Who is Murphy and is he cute?