Life lessons
I admit to my anal retentiveness and/or obsessive-compulsiveness. Once I left a pen at a friend's house, and that's all I could think about for the next three hours, because I wanted it back so badly. I even asked her twice to check for it when she got home. I doubt she'll give it back to me. I will even go back into the house to check the stove after I've already put my shoes on and even if I know I didn't use it.
Whenever I get gas, no matter what the prices are, I like to go to Shell so I can use my airmiles card. However, when I'm driving in an unfamiliar city or on a street where I'm not of which gas stations are there, I usually just end up going to the first one I see (which is NEVER a Shell). Then, when I finish gassing up, I invariably always see a Shell down the road.
And, it always seems to be the very last gas station in the row of stations that I pass.
After doing this about 5 or 6 times, the next time I decided that I would just wait, drive all the way to the end and see if there was a Shell, and if not, then turn back. Yesterday I tried this theory remembering that I did pass a Shell along this route somewhere a few months ago. Well....
Try doing this at rush hour where to make a left hand turn into the station would have taken years (everyone was going the opposite way than I was). So I passed the station until I got to the next stop light, turned around and headed back towards the Shell.....until I realized.....that of course, it was closed for repairs or gas re-filling or whatever. So now I was actually stuck in the rush hour traffic with no gas. 20 minutes later, I had gas and was on the highway.
One of the machines I still have a hard time using is the dishwasher. Our family hardly ever uses our dish washer. I can never figure out why you can't STOP the dishwasher once you've turned it to a setting. And I can't turn the knob to "Drying" without passing "Rinse" and hence, starting the dishwasher again.
posted by Moxy @ 11:19 AM
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