I bought a new (or better very old) car. It was very cheap (400 Euros/ 560 CAD) but for the age well kept. It is not only very old, it is also very small and I have friends who thought my Ford Focus was small. My new old car is about half the size!
Anyway, today I went to get new number plates so could pick up my car up in the evening. It's a bit more involved over here compared to Canada. I was not exactly in good spirits because I hate doing thing like that, but what needs to be done, needs to be done.
The first annoyance was already outside. There was this BMW SUV needing almost one a half parking spots and I had to squeeze out of my mum's also very small car. So my head was already thinking a lot of bad things about that person I didn't even know and I started swearing in English, just talking to myself. Great!
I went inside and pulled a number and after not even waiting too long I was happy to be helped. However, I was told that I wasn't from the city Heilbronn but from the area Heilbronn. "Ahh, ya, I know that." The lady told me I was in the wrong place, but I just had to go down the stairs and there they would help me. Okay, so there is a difference for registering your car when you're from the city or the area. Oh well...
One thing I did find out from that lady, though, and that was that I had the wrong insurance code and I had to call them before I went down the stairs. Sounds easy, BUT...
First of all, I was very proud of myself, because I actually have a cell I can call people with! That sounds maybe very normal to you, but my cell is just not very high on my list and it took me quite some weeks after I arrived in Germany until I managed to get myself a new contract (unlike a horse which I bought within the first week). It's a thing about priorities I guess.
So, I was able to call the insurance company and the guy said he would send it via email. Oh oh...
I hung up and noticed that my battery was almost dead, of course. That, however, was not the bad news. During the last week or so I noticed a lot of different messaged on my phone saying that I was running out of storage. First, the messages said I couldn't update and honestly why does a phone have to update all the time, so I just ignored them. Those symbols in the upper left corner of my cell became more and more. But I just didn't see why I should spent my precious time taking care of that.
Today I found out! I tried to download those emails with the insurance code, but my phone told me it couldn't because it didn't have enough storage space. Ahhhhhhhhhh...I started deleting pictures being well aware that my battery was about to die.
In the end I was able to call the insurance company again and another guy yelled the code over the speaker phone so I could note it in my phone (due to the lack of a pen). The rest was easy.
So I went home and waited for my dad to drive me to where I could pick up my new car. I started driving my little car and it wasn't quite right. The engine light came on twice on the way home, however,went back out when I shifted into a higher gear. Good enough! We made it home just to find out that my right rear tire was loosing air. Who cares...I was smiling.
I saddled my horse and thought "whatever, I go for a ride". I didn't get very far, because at the first opportunity I asked him to canter and he tried and started bucking like a bronc at a rodeo. Never had that before, on any horse! I stayed on for a little while, but it also became very clear that he had no intention of stopping. When I came off I landed alright without hurting myself badly, but the farmer just had applied fresh cow dung TODAY! We are not talking about the dry, straw-rich kind. Nope! It was the wet and slimy kind with the very rich smell, Nuka really likes.
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At that point, I was actually in good spirits and now I'm sitting here, still with a faint smell cow poop looking forward to what tomorrow has waiting for me. It has potential for something even better, since I have been invited (nice word, it's mandatory) by the official job agency to learn how to use their online job page. Funny enough I have been using it for months already, but maybe they have great tricks I don't know about.
