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Blog Thread III : Look Who's Blogging Now
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 09 Feb 2010, 03:49 ---me with my long hair, backwards baseball cap, and sport sunglasses... we looked like we'd just finished filming The Search For Animal Chin
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I was driving through a parking lot near my work when I saw someone start backing out of a spot. I was pretty close to them by the time that they starting reversing, so I immediately slowed down. When they continued reversing, I came to a complete stop. Mind you, I was less than ten feet away and in clear sight. The lady never stopped and smashed into my bumper. This wouldn't have been too big a deal except for the fact that it was extremely cold that day and the impact caused my plastic bumper to explode. She got out of her car and we called the cops. After waiting forever, a cop comes and takes a quick statement and fills out a form. I gave a description of the accident, noting that I was at a complete stop when the collision occurred.
The other driver told the cop that her car has sensors that been when there is something behind her.
The lady's defense was that her car would have warned her if I was behind her. Her defense was that I wasn't there.
Anyway, we exchanged insurance and everything. Her insurance company contacts me and takes a statement. I made certain to say "I was at a full stop," "she never looked back," and "she shouldn't put so much faith in her reverse sensors."
Anyway, thanks to the wonderful government of the state of Illinois, we have a "COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE" law. This law allows her insurance company to tell me that I am 25% at fault because I was in the parking lot to begin with. If, then, I am 25% at fault I have to come up with 25% of the money to fix my car. Because I made the foolish error of cohabiting a parking lot with a reckless lady.
I didn't mention this yet, but the lady backed in to me over a month ago. I just got off the phone with her insurance and the rep hasn't even determined liability yet. I have contacted her 4 times already.
SIGH.
Love, Eli.
TL;DR- :x :x :x :x :x INSURANCE COMPANIES!
Emaline:
My boyfriend's coworkers are trying to get this dinner party thing together. They are all interested in cooking, and are all good cooks, so they want to do this thing where they decide on a cuisine, and then everybody cooks a dish for it, and we get a complete meal. Some how, I got included in the list of chefs who are supposed to be cooking. We've had one party since we've been dating, not counting magic parties(because that's mostly friends, and not any coworkers), where they've tasted my food, and that was for Thanksgiving, and you can't screw up thanksgiving food, its so easy! But I mean, I guess they've seen the stuff my boyfriend brings to work, so maybe they think I'm a good cook? I am super nervous about this! I don't think I can do it.
Lunchbox:
It's only one dish! If you think you're that bad just make some of your kickass homemade bread or something.
Emaline:
I wish I could do that, but I think that I have to cook at whoever is hosting it that night. And share the kitchen!(which I absolutely cannot do. I am a kitchen hog) Also, I have to use equipment I've never used before, according to this email:
The example in my mind was like indian for example. true scratch indian is like step 1: fry a bunch of spices in a wok. i can think of a lot of ways we could all fuck that shit up.
I have an idea-- i was thinking of buying one of those outdoor wok burners again after Shijingle took mine. what If i rebuy it, since i already have the propane tank, then we choose chinese and everyone has to cook for the first time on a 130K BTU flame.
Normal stove burners are 5K BTU. most dishes are cooked in two minutes or so and you have to be really fast.
WTF. I don't think I can do that! Scary! But yeah. I think I'm gonna try.
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