Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

A stranger (with a much bigger x-shaped lug wrench than mine, fortunately) stopped to help me replace the dead tire with the %#@^ing toy spare (I understand the reasons for those but I still dislike them). I got to rehearsal very late. On the way home I faced a series of much smaller mishaps, but each was extra annoying because its annoy-ness built upon my accumulated annoyance so far; the last was, a mere mile from home after a drive that took a little less than twice as long as usual because of having to slow down on the toy spare, I arrived at the railroad crossing at the same time as a freight train did. (Okay, most-of-a-minute before the train, but the gates were down and the red lights flashing and a handful of other cars were stopped ahead of me.) The train was moving at a speed of approximately (I counted syllables, having forgotten that my phone has a stopwatch function) six boxcar-lengths per minute.

I did eventually get home. And an already too-full week now has yet another to-do item in it.

I also got a little good news today (or at least the long-awaited cessation of an ongoing bad-news-ness), but this is a whining entry so that'll wait. :-þ