01.18.07
Going downhill fast
Alrighty, the crappiness continues….
First a friend comes over to pick up some fabric to help me sew. While she is here Cole manages to scare her little girl and make her cry. From that point on she wants to go home. They leave, Cole flips out. He wanted her to stay, he says he did not mean to make her cry (he was running through the house screaming). I decide it may be time to head to the grocery store. We go out to get in the car and there is a ticket on my car. For expired plates. $75. I have the new plates in the back of my car but the bolt is stripped so we had not put them on yet. On the ticket is a phone number for questions. I call, she says if I want to contest it I have to go to court. What? My car was PARKED AT MY HOUSE. How can I get a ticket for expired plates when no one was driving the car. AND the plates were in the car! UGH! On the drive over to the grocery store I imagine my letter to them.
Dear City of Worthington
You Suck
Instead of speding your time giving me a ticket for plates that I do actually have, please find more useful things to do like catching the teenager that speeds down my street every day, never stopping at the stop sign. Or the neighborhood psycho that rings my door at 9:30 at night asking to do yardwork to earn money to go buy beer.
With Love
Elisa
So I go the grocery store and spend half the time negotiating with Cole. When I load up my groceries the diet coke box breaks and cans go everywhere. 24 cans. Look, here they are NEXT TO MY PLATES!
So I get them all in the car and head home. When I open the back of the car the bag with the eggs falls into the driveway. The eggs are upside down. By this point I am crying, Happy Freakin’ Birthday.
But then…….
small changes in the other direction. The deliveryman pulls up and gives me this
from my sweet husband.
And look at this
The eggs survived the fall. Not one broke.
Alison said,
January 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Never doubt, you are loved! I think the fact that the eggs not breaking is God’s way of saying sorry for the idiot who gave you the ticket this morning.
Mrs. Goodsense said,
January 18, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Lou:
I tried to call you awhile ago to wish you a happy birthday. Don’t let a couple rocks in the road mess up your trip through life. You are tougher than that. I just wanted to say how much we appreciate you guys. I will call again later.
elisa said,
January 18, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Thanks Dad although I must admit I am a little confused about your pen name. Are you cross dressing again? Just kidding.
Mom said,
January 18, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Happy Birthday my sweet daughter, hope this afternoon is going better. Love you bunches.
Tiel S-K said,
January 18, 2007 at 5:02 pm
happy birthday. I have given up waiting for the magic to happen on my birthday now that I am in my thirties and have children. So each year I buy myself something to make sure that something nice happens on the day. hope your birth-night was better than the day.
Mrs. Goodsense said,
January 18, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Dang, Lou:
You know that Mrs. Goodsense is not supposed to be back in this country. There is a nationwide restraining order that prohibits any communcation between her and anyone presently living. Anway, I’ve got to go batten down the hatches at Briarwood. Again, happy birthday!
Tracy said,
January 18, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Happy Birthday SIL!!! I think you are an amazing woman, and if we could actually choose siblings/in-laws, I would pick you! What’s up with Mrs. Goodsense? I’m mildly disturbed.
sonia said,
January 18, 2007 at 8:06 pm
aww, I’m sorry you had such a bad day. I’ve heard they can give you a ticket for expired plates even if you’re not driving. That’s B.S. in my opinion. GOD forbid they actually go and catch criminals.
Happy birthday
elisa said,
January 18, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Oh Trace, you have every reason to be disturbed! I have heard these things are highly genetic- I’m sure you learned about it in nursing school. Just to be on the safe side you should probably hide all your high heels and dresses from my brother.
your brother said,
January 18, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Oh stop it.
WENDY MYERS said,
January 19, 2007 at 7:23 am
scoopy said,
January 19, 2007 at 12:17 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
elisalou designs » Blog Archive » Clearly I have a problem said,
February 15, 2008 at 10:54 am
[…] So this year when my birthday rolled around I had a brief flashback to my birthday last year and the little tantrum I threw because of the ticket on my car. Remember that?? Well I felt quite pleased with myself this year that I made it threw my birthday without any run-ins with the police- ( not that police run-ins are that common) oh and I did manage to get out of that ticket. Well Andy did, and if we were completely honest here we would admit that maybe the whole license plate thing was his fault anyway but we won’t go there. […]