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Friday, March 12, 2004

FREAKING

I did a really stupid thing today.

You know, I think I could say that most days.

But anyway. Today I was running late for the kids' Awana meeting, and I realized that I did not have enough gas to get us there and back, so I swung into the gas station as I was leaving town. We belong to this "fueling network" kind of thing where you have to be a member to use their stations and generally the prices are pretty good if you can find a station in your area -- plus it's a charge account kind of thing where you pay once a month. It's an enterprise that's heavy on truckers and low on restrooms. ANYWAY. I kept swiping my card and the dang machine wouldn't read it, the stupid freaking machine kept saying it couldn't read my freaking card, what IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY is wrong with this FREAKING machine??!? It was like that. (might I point out the extreme appropriateness of this attitude as I was ferrying my jubilant offspring to a Bible-study club meeting, at which I am a leader?) I slammed back into the car, handed the FREAKING card to my son and asked him to put it back in my purse while I drove, and screeched back onto the road, hoping we had enough gas to make it to the next gas station five miles away. My son said, with typical 7-year-old helpfulness, "Are you sure this is the right card?" Snapped I in reply: "Of course it's the right -- oh."

The most embarrassing part was having to again encounter the anonymous stranger who was still filling his tank at the station and who had just had to witness my fuming and FREAKING at the card machine and whose presence at said FREAKING I had shrugged off because I'd probably never see him again. Whoops.

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Today wasn't all bad, though. I am about five minutes from being finished with the jeans quilt I've been working on -- which is a little sad, actually, because now I won't get to work on it and listen to books on tape anymore. Maybe I'll have to -- gasp -- start another sewing project, or work on one of the way-too-many crochet projects I have underway. AND, yay, I once again have a digital camera, thanks to a man on eBay, who, bless his heart, happened to have one exactly like my dead one, except not dead, for only $20 plus shipping. So I will leave you with a picture, just because I can. :)