Can't be too nice sometimes

So here's what happened with the accident 2 months ago. After the guy hit my car, we of course got out of the car and exchanged information. At that time he told me that he's a driver (drives for a living) so it would be great if we can settle this ourselves so it doesn't go on his record. I said ok, told him I'll go get some estimates and let him know. He said he's insured by State Farm but he doesn't have the insurance information with him. I thought, fine, since we weren't gonna go through insurance anyway.

End of that week I met with him to go over the estimates. He once again apologized and expressed his desire to settle this outside of insurance since he drives for FedEx. He said if I don't mind, he'll pay me in installments of $500 each week for 3 weeks. I said ok. He seems like a nice person and seems like he's willing to take the financial responsibility so I trusted him (plus he was driving a Land Rover the day of the accident and a BMW when he came to meet with me, so it doesn't seem like the type that's really poor).

Three weeks had gone by and I haven't received a single penny or any phone calls from him. I tried calling him a few times, but everytime it rang until the voicemail came up. Left him messages. No reply. By the end of the month I figured if anything happened, he would have at least called by then. I called FedEx to see if they can give me his office number and perhaps be able to reach him. The lady on the phone said she couldn't find him in the employee directory! So I finally called my insurance to file a claim. As a courtesy, I left him a mesasge and told him that was what I did. The next day, the guy called me back and said someone in his family passed away so he wasn't able to contact me (seriously, for 3 weeks?!) He said he still wanted to settle that with me outside of insurance and he has the money ready for me. I didn't really want to trust this guy anymore (what if he ignored my calls again, or he gave me fake money, or his cheque bounced or something...) , so I told him I'd already filed a claim and he can talk to my insurance adjuster. He said he understands, and he'll talk to the adjuster.

Two more weeks passed. The adjuster wasn't able to contact him. He said they will send out a field adjuster for a "meet and greet" session and basically tell him that he needs to give out his insurance information. The adjuster said at this point he has no mercy for this guy and he asked for this embarrassment himself.

Yesterday the adjuster finally called me back and they were able to get his insurance information. He said State Farm wanted to talk to me and asked me to call them. I talked to a person at State Farm and they wanted to confirm the date of accident, because it seemed like that guy ran and got insurance that afternoon when the accident happened, and he told State Farm that the accident happened the day after, so State Farm wanted to know if his insurance was in effect when the accident occurred. Wow, I wasn't expecting this! See, you can't be too nice to people sometimes. Now I wish someone can just give me the money so I can get my car fixed!

My poor car...

真係多災多難! And I just fixed it! This time got rear-ended.  無言!

:(

This eyesore apparently is going to take $800 to fix... dang... that's one round-trip ticket to Japan right there.

唉!

又揩花o左架車! 好沮喪!!

歐洲"黑過墨斗"之旅

跟友人和她的妹妹去完歐洲旅行回來已差不多一個月了. 很多朋友都問旅途愉快嗎? 我說:「超黑仔!」(就是衰運連連的意思!) 友人寫下一個list. 以下是一部份的items:
1. 到米蘭, 下shuttle bus後, 問路人酒店在那裡. 那人二話不說便把我們的行李箱放到他的手推車上,叫我們跟他走. 到酒店後他要我們給他每件行李5歐元. 最終給了他10歐元了事.
2. 酒店櫃台硬要我們留下一本護照數個小時做登記. 需要那麼久嗎?
3. 酒店房間簡陋無比, 比大陸的酒店還惡劣. 和相片差天共地!
4. 到大教堂附近逛街, 友人被乞丐摸手臂!
5. 第二天打算到outlet, 找了老半天才找到巴士. 跟旅遊指南說的位置差很遠.
6. 生日那天自己把頭撞到玻璃門處. 腫了一塊!
7. 生日晚上本想到一家餐廳, 在餐廳外看見裡面有人但關門, 在門外等了很久那些人都不理我們!
8. 因姑姐過世, 要買eurostar到倫敦. 上網買票時"發瘟"買錯了時間, 花了一個小時想加錢改車票也改不了.
9. 在巴黎車站乘eurostar, 取票的機器不知道我的名字是怎樣寫, 試了很多遍也拿不到票, 結果要到counter取票. 排隊排了很久, 於是miss了我的班次. 工作人員還很不友善地說"你遲到了!"
10. 回到巴黎, 約了友人在outlet. 她們買錯車票, 本應5歐元的車票她們付了20歐元!
11. 從巴黎走的時候, 以為退稅counter是在過security之後. 誰知只看見一個沒有人的American Express/Tax Refund counter. 等了半小時, 再問了很多人才發現原來counter在外面! 於是再到外面辦退稅, 差點沒時間! 把退稅表格寄出後才想起好像沒有填credit card number! 希望還會有cheque收啦!

我們離開的時候, 那個list有17或18 items! 米蘭整個城市就像一間大黑店, 相信以後也不會再去! 巴黎我倒是挺喜歡的. 由於這一趟只有兩天, 沒有時間看清楚這個城市, 希望有機會能再去遊玩!

Black Friday

Ah! It's Friday the 13th! No wonder! It's my day off today, but just when I planned to go to UPS to pick a package, and to the recycling center to recycle the month's worth of bottles, and to the grocery store to get food for the upcoming weeks, my car battery has to die on me. It wouldn't start. NICE! The wait for roadside assistance to come jump start the car for me? 1 hr!

Please fix my AC!!!

For the first time in 3 weeks, my room temperature has dropped to 80°F (even though it's 57°F outside), but yay!!! At least it didn't feel as hot! Room temp had been 85°F+ and it was quite uncomfortable! Well the tech is coming again tomorrow and I got the key to the roof this time! Hope he can get it fixed!

It's getting hot in here!

It's a record-breaking 96°F today and guess what... my AC is not working! Very bad luck indeed! My room is like a sauna room now! Hm... is this gonna help me lose weight since I'm "steaming" all the fat out? LOL