Venturing out

I woke up to a gorgeous day and decided that today I would leave the house for the first time in over a month to return my library books to the library drop box.

Since I was up and dressed in real clothes, which fit by the way, I went to the mail box. I took two sacks. One for all the garbage I can't get them to stop sending and one for things I needed to look at. The first sack was so full I could barely get it around all the unwanted, unsolicited mail. The second contained a bill for an eye appointment last August! Why would they wait this long? And yes it was just recently sent. There was also a tag saying it was time to get a new license plate sticker. Another hundred fifty dollars!

I took care of this and headed for the car, but it was deader than a doornail. Although I don't know what a doornail is, I do know my car would not turn over. My daughter did not have jumper cables. I could not find mine, so I called my insurance company to see what I should do.

The woman on the phone was so sweet. She offered to pick me up wherever I was in Mattoon? I finally realized I had called my medical insurance agent, not my auto agent. I apologized and tried again. This time a young man answered the phone, but said he was not authorized to help me, someone would call me back.

And they did. A very nice woman said I could call a tow truck and pay them then send her the receipt and she would reimburse me, or I could call their number and they would just take care of it. That sounded good to me.

I called and an hour later a guy came out, called me from the parking lot and told me to come outside, get into my car, roll up all the windows and release the hood. I did and he got out of his car, ran over to mine with a little ghost buster machine and zapped my battery which promptly started. He said to keep the motor running till two o'clock. No problem I had to mail the bill to the eye doctor and return my books.

I drove to the old post office to discover they took out the mailboxes! I found the new post office and I could see the mailboxes, but it took two rounds through there to figure out how to get to them. Luckily the library had changed nothing so returning the books was simple.

Oh, yes, did I mention that my phone was dead and I had to be tethered to a charger during all of this? Seems I had accidentally disconnected the other end of my charging cable from the wall last night and hadn't noticed.