What a bipolar day - it was fantastic the first half...the second half totally sucked. Work went well, very casual day - got off early to go (frustratingly) to get my car at the dealership. Let's just say that after today - I'm gonna trade that sucker in this January - it's plagued me with bad luck.
I called the dealership to see if my car (which was promised to be fixed before 4pm) was ready. Instead, i was informed that the paperwork was misplaced - that the car was not worked on - not even looked at because the service guy who "promised" me - just somehow went MIA today. Not my fricken fault. This was the THIRD time I've taken the car to the dealershit..I mean dealership to have this simple thing fixed. I was issued a rental yesterday. Anyhoo - they told me that it wouldn't be until Monday that I could pick it up - I about crapped in my pants. I yelled at the fartknockers for almost an hour explaining the stupidity of their lack of accountability.
Because I had the bike in the car - and I'm leaving to Richmond tomorrow for the weekend, I had to pick the car up. So I go there (took me over an hour to go 15 miles - fricken rushour), turn in the rental - wait too patiently for the VW guys to fetch my car 15 minutes...tick-tock...(sun is gonna go down..I need my bike ride tonight, no bike ride last night...no bike ride tomorrow night - will be driving to Richmond) - the guy shows up with the car - but the passenger side window is completely rolled down (electric windows) and we are unable to push it back up. After another 1/2 hour of deliberations and yelling on my part about this idiocracy, they finally decided that the only option was to tape plastic over the window. Grrr! Fuckers. Shit, If I knew that was gonna be the end result of 3 days of frustration - I could have just done that myself. I've lived in New Jersey and New York City for many years to know how to tape a broken window up real good. To repeat - Let's just say that after today - I'm gonna trade that sucker in this January - it's plagued me with bad luck.
After that hemmoroidal debacle, I drove to Vienna - in nothing but traffic. Not that my anger wasn't at a boiling point, but sheesh - It took me f o r e v e r to get to Vienna. I got there, it was almost dark...twilight. I went thru the motions of changing into my stuff, prepping the bike, locking car - i got on the road. It began to rain. so here I was, after a frustrating afternoon dealing with my shitty ass car and the ignoramus phiilistine VW monkeys, traffic...I'm biking in the dark while it's raining. I decided to only go about 20 miles. I could barely see. I needed the ride just to cool off from all the hot shit.
Got back to car, cleaned up - then drove home, at this point, it's almost 9:45pm - had dinner, rushed around to pack, clean/lube bike, et al before work and my trip to Richmond tommorrow for the weekend. Speaking of which, I need to finish that up. Have a great weekend, will be back on Sunday. Ciao.