Sometimes I dont get you

wow. today was, well, shitty.

Somehow my sister's "errands" she alluded to included going to get her front bumper appraised by Allstate, getting a deductible, taking her car to a body shop, picking up a rental car and then her up from work. Did I mention this was all quickly briefed to me while in the car on the way to work and on a hastily written letter, while my mind was occupied by other issues such as unfinished business both in Austin and at Harvard?

So here's what happened.

I get coffee to help clear my addled head. I take the car to the address where she listed that I go to but instead of going to the right and into the Allstate office, I go left into a body shop. Here's where it goes bad. They call the Enterprise service and he picked both me and Vanessa up to get a rental. Vanessa does not inform me that a) she has a meeting to go to and therefore a limited amount of time b) that the girl responsible for her back bumper damage has yet to file a claim on her end and c) that her car insurance does not pay for a rental car. Basically she should have known that if the girl was being shady and not reporting the accident, then we would have to pay the full amount ourselves until it got straightened away.

This is when Vanessa's head begins to explode.

Vanessa doesn't have the money to pay for the car nor did she save copies of her insurance claim which I left with the body shop. She expected me to have all of this stuff, which I didn't. While I am both on the phone with Allstate and my father to quickly transfer money over to her account, she is freaking out saying that she is going to get fired for missing her meeting and that she doesn't have time for this. Then I tell her where her car is.

This is point where my head explodes.

She freaks out because I put the car in a different body shop than I was supposed to, which granted was bad. Although neither them or I had an issue with the car being there, she is really upset and freaked out. She takes the rental car and leaves me at the place where I left her car with no keys to her apartment or transportation. I hang out until the Allstate guy gets back from lunch and have a sit down to figure out if the auto body place will actually get the job done right and is respectable. I get the OK from the Allstate guy, who says that the work is both guaranteed by the insurance and the body shop. Great. Then the body shop guy gets us a cheaper rate at the rental place and pays for my cab ride home.

Then I ran into two other cast members from the ABC Family coming-of-age college drama Greek in the lobby. Last week I saw their other cast member in Austin. I am ashamed I know who they are.




Then I found twenty dollars.....and it was a Tuesday.