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[life, haus, relationship, family, car???] things are. a LOT. But I'm managing!
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So first of all
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Kicking ass at work
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Kicking so much ass at work but it means I'm fighting to pick our kid up on time from school, so Sergio's been doing that instead
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Because my boss keeps scheduling meetings at 2 when I have to go get her
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And means she doesn't TELL HIM when she is doing poorly in school
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So Mom texts me while I'm in a 2pm meeting today going like "hey are you going to the grocery store anytime soon? I'm worried about a winter storm and running out of food"
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I go to call her back but I have to hang up before I get one word out because our plumber is calling
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Plumber is mostly done with the fancy new gas boiler but they still have to get their electrician on the line so they can install a closer outlet and do one last inspection
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Plumber goes "oh hey, so uh our electrician got back to us and, um. They can be there at 7:30am tomorrow, is that too early?"
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Nope. Please! Come. I'm up at 5:30.
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But I say, hey, can you be out by 9am, because from 9 to 10am I have marriage counselling with my husband, who I love
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"yeah no problem it won't be that long." Cool. See you at 7:30
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Hang up. Call mom back. Say, "Yeah I can be at your place around 4:30 or 5 and take you shopping"
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Go back to work
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Surprise, I get my monthly bill from my insurance company.
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Previously on Monthly Insurance Company I was paying $210 a month for two cars
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Now I'm getting a bill fr $240 for the same two cars for no reason I can figure out
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whoa whoa whoa sir not happening
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I go, okay, I can call them up, figure out what's happening and also let them know we switched from oil to gas so we can save on the liquid fuel upcharge.
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Oh no no no, my friend, says the insurance company. See, we bundled that liquid fuel upcharge as part of an optional package you elected for. You want to get rid of that? You have to also get rid of "what if someone breaks my lock" coverage or "hey my fridge broke and I lost all my food" coverage. But that's up to you! We just have to research more options
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also we increased your rates 5% to keep up with inflation and that's why you now pay 30 more a month fuck you byyyyeee
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Okay now it's 4:45 and I have to get to my mom's.
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Previously on Allison's Car is a Piece of Shit, the battery keeps dying and has for the last two weeks. Sergio four days ago jumped it with his car and moved it to the street to let the plumber trucks in, but now it's in the street
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And for two days I've been saying "we need to move this car, the garbage men can't get to our neighbor's trash and garbage day is on Thursday morning"
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and now it's dark. And cold. And my car is fenced in with dumpsters from six houses
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Sergio swears up and down it's not the battery, he literally bought the battery a few months ago
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(He bought it and then made me reimburse him, I did not ask for my battery to be replaced, but OKAY)
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He thinks it's the alternator, or maybe a spark plug. I agree. These little Fiats suck with electricity
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We charge my car with his.
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No dice
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I'm like "did you put the cables on the right way"
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"YES I DID"
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"OKAY."
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and we're standing in the dark staring at my dead car and I'm like "hey. I've pushed this thing one-handed with a broken leg before. We can probably just get it up out of the way if we work together"
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EXCEPT
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NO
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BECAUSE MY LOVELY HUSBAND
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IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT MY CAR FROM GETTING HIT
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has so cemented the car parallel to the curb that you can't fucking turn the wheel
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which is a PROBLEM when the car is in neutral because it means you don't have the power steering and you're trying to get a 1500 pound car up over the curb
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and we're shouting at each other to pivot
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and he'sin the driver's seat and I'm rocking the car back and forth as you do
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and one of our neighbors stops by and goes like "you guys need help?"
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and I go "nope I am good, we're gonna call AAA in a sec"
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"because you are shoving that car." "yeah. It's good energy."
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I call AAA.
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They don't know when a tech is gonna be out here but Sergio is like "take my car. go to your mom's"
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I go "no, AAA wants me here with it. They specifically said the person who calls has to be the one who is here with the car for a photo ID"
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AAA arrives minutes later. Asks what's happening. I say I think it's the sparkplug or something because we've been charging this thing for what feels like hours and trying every few minutes and the battery won't charge
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Guy hooks up his battery. My car starts immediately. Sergio had it on the wrong side
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I'm like
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Okay
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breathe
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Guy puts the hood down and settles the battery between the hood and engine of the car and Sergio is in the driver's seat so I ask him to bring my car back towards me so we can get this thing back into the driveway
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He shifts forward. Rocks back. Shifts. Rocks back. Stops. Rocks back. Shifts.
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AAA guy and me are staring at him. Watching him struggle to MOVE THE CAR BACK LIKE A FOOT AND TURN
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and I go "honey! Honey! Just hit the curb, I DON'T CARE. I WANNA GO TO MY MOM'S"
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He rolls up onto the curb and starts heading up the driveway
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AAA guy looks at me and goes "ohhh, is it a manual" and I have to go "no my husband just forgets how to drive when he's stressed out."
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We walk back to Sergio who has somehow managed to knock out the guy's battery onto the driveway and is sheepishly picking it up
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I go to him and say "Hey Serg, the guy says it's the battery. He says that if i don't drive it often, because I haven't been due to the trunk issue, it can just freeze up and die"
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"But I bought it a few months ago!"
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"I know. I know. Where'd you buy it?"
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"[shitty auto place that I HATE]"
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"Dude tell me you didn't go there. Go to fucking Autozone, I hate [shitty auto place]!"
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"well I know that NOW"
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"Okay. I love you. Going to my mom's BYE"
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drive to my mom at 6pm with a torn shoulder and a bad attitude
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come home at 7:30. Kid hasn't emerged from her room. She has a migraine so I lure her out with chicken like she's an overgrown cat and make sure she eats
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I'm sitting with her and Sergio and I go "oh, awesome, the first of our taxes came in. Okay, this is a 1099 form. You're gonna want to keep these, they basically are a way to tell Massachusetts you had health care coverage"
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and I look at Sergio and go "and we got hit with a huge tax bill last year because ONE of us put 'married filing jointly' and ONE of us put 'single' on our taxes hah hah haha but that's fixed now right"
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"...."
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"....it IS fixed now right"
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"....I have to go check something"
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And that led to a long long LONG argument between me and Sergio because he thought that because he got knocked into the next tax bracket, that somehow meant he would pay money on a tax bill instead of receiving money and I went
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"NO"
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"YOU TELL THE JOB HOW MUCH TO WITHHOLD."
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"YOU COULD BE RECEIVING MONEY EVERY YEAR IF YOU WOULD TELL THEM TO WITHHOLD MORE, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BRACKETS, IT'S ABOUT PERCENTAGES OWED"
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Long story short, guess who is accurate in taxes (me) and inaccurate in taxes (him) and gonna get ANOTHER HUGE TAX BILL THIS YEAR (us)
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But
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I sat him down
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and made him change his status to "married, filing jointly" where I could see it
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and not "single, head ofhousehold"
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or "has three withholdings" because "it made sense at the time"
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anyway
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kicking ass
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and I got Sergio and our kid some nice desserts
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though it was mainly an apology dessert to Sergio for yelling at him in our driveway
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where's his apology dessert for you?? oh my goodness, this is a lot and you're kicking ass
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^^^^^^^ exactly
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/SHRUG
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Idk but I’ll have a talk about it in marriage counseling in a half hour