Memories from the work week

Incident #1: As I was getting off the bus in the morning, an Asian woman tried to squeeze out in front of me. Essentially because of her idiotic moves, we got “stuck” in the door way. I was baffled by her and seriously asked her this question: “What are you doing?“. Obviously she didn’t answer me. I don’t know if she was just ignoring me, or didn’t speak the English language, but the whole time her head was down and no eye contact was made. She moved, and I moved again at the same time (because quite frankly, I was initially in front of her at the beginning) and she raced off. I don’t get it. It’s the same thing with people on the sidewalk. I’m not going to step out onto the road, just because you won’t move behind your friend, or won’t move out of the middle of the sidewalk. We’re going to bump shoulders if you don’t move. More importantly why don’t people follow the universal rule of sticking to the right?

Incident #2: I snapped at a co-worker because this person keeps brining up the same subject after two years of me working there. I had enough of it, and I actually snapped at this person. It felt good, and I didn’t feel bad at all. I didn’t snap in a mean, or bitchy way. I just said I was annoyed of the subject being brought up and please drop it. 6 hours later, said perosn apologized. It didn’t feel sincere, and then proceeded to make small talk. Most awkward conversation in the WORLD, as we both knew it wasn’t genuine. (I hate that.)

Incident #3: My boss let me borrow her car. Let me give you a quick background of my driving history. I’m used to driving boats of cars (think: vans/sebrings/station wagons) that my parents used to own. Haven’t driven a car for three years as I take public transportation. I work on one of the busiest road there is in the tri-city, with like 12 lanes, everywhere.  My boss was busy and stuck at work and wanted to get lunch for us. I told her it would be quicker if I walked to the fast food place, but she insisted that I take her car; seeing how I will be buying a car any day now, and I need to get used to the area around here. Her car is a 1998 Saturn, small little thing. Easier to drive than the boats I mentioned earlier. She then shows me where the license/registration/etc is in the car. Well. GOOD THING. Because, I nearly got side swiped taking a left hand turn  at the busiest intersection I’ve ever encountered in my life, as the light was turning yellow. That car has pep. I’m not being sarcastic either. It saved my ass, especially since my five grand down payment would’ve been out the window if I had crashed. When I got back and told my boss what had happened (because i love a good story lol), she said “Oh you poor hthing” and started laughing at me. I laughed with her, because we’re cool like that.  The next day she came into work telling me she had lost her parking push button remote thing, for underground parking.At first I was trhinking that it was because she leaves her windows open all the time, but she then said it was under the passenger seat. We both laughed until tears came rolling down our faces and mascara was giving us racoon eyes. It was bad. That’s how swiftly I took the turn. Enough to knock that off the blinds of the drivers seat. I borrowed her car 3 days later,for a separate reason alltogether, without incident. Phewf!

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Cat and mouse

I have my down payment for my car sitting in my savings account as we speak, accumulating interest on a monthly basis. No word yet on a used Mazda 3 hatch in the GS/GT model. I benefit greatly working at a Financial Institution, I can get all the insider’s report on what a car (whether it be new/used) is worth. I love having a network of Lending Department Manager’s at hand. It certainly helps a new buyer like me out, a whole lot.

I did however, contact a Mazda dealership in Burlington asking if they had the certain model that I was looking for, still in stock. I saw they had one listed on autotrader. But I’ve gotta tell you, these car sales people are desperate for a sale! Awesome! I pretty much shot down the offer that B (salesman in Burlington) wanted to list with a big fat “omfg that’s a ridiculous price. There is no way.” yet he’s still persistent, e-mailing me every few days for a chat. That’s a good sign. Especially on a car that is so darn popular around here. I see mostly charcoal, grey and silver Mazda 3’s driving around in the tri–city here, but not so much the white ones. They’re the prettiest :)

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Oh he wants that sale. I replied to him that I wasn’t in a hurry (total B.S. — I want that car now!) and are presently monitoring the inventory at the local dealerships. I also asked him to please keep me posted of any new arrivals or any sales or promotions. Sigh. Sometimes being patient is a pain in the hole.

I feel like half the city is looking out for me, for my very explicit specifications: Used Mazda 3 sport GS or GT, 2006 or newer  with automatic transmission. Interior has to be white with black interior, and a sunroof would be a plus. On Thursday I called my co–workers son who owns a used car dealership and had a conference call with him and his Mom (my co–worker). It seemed to go well. Let’s hope it comes sooner than later!

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Completion

Remember how I said I was taking an online course and wouldn’t post for a week due to immense study time? Well the due date for the exam is tomorrow, June 5 and of course I didn’t know if June 5 was the day that they still keep accepting the exams, or if it was the cut off date. So, me being little miss organized I decided not to chance it and submit my answers pretty much last minute, to get in a much needed cram session. After hearing that my boss scored 97% with one answer just wrong I decided to make sure absolutely every question I had was positively correct in my head. Plus, my boss did a completely different course than I, but we were taking online courses at the exact same time. Just so, ya’know.So I submitted my answers not even 10 minutes ago.

How did I do?

92% baby! I only got two answers wrong. I think it’s time to celebrate!

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