Thursday, May 20, 2010

Only today and tomorrow left

Goodbye to my room.I have enjoyed this room so much and Debbie, Kent and Erik. But now, I will move on to harass Donna. It is with joy and sadness both that I feel about leaving here. My life as long as I can remember has been constantly changing one way or another. Even when my sister and I were girls, we moved a lot. My dad and mother would buy a fixer up and get it all nice, then they would sell it and we would start again in a new house.
Then the War changed a lot of things for a lot of people. My dad had started building a new house for us but he never got it finished until after the war because a lot of materials you could not get. The one thing that bothered me the most was that he had to build an outhouse because he would not put in the cheap fixtures and bathtubs that you could buy during the war. My parents both grew up in the era so it was not so bad for them. If you can use an outhouse in Montana or Iowa you could certainly use one in Washington. Ours was always kept very clean but I still hated it.
On to my interesting day. I hopped in the car this morning to go fill the tank for our move Saturday. This was about 9am. The owner of the Shell station almost always waits on me. He waited on Clayton a lot. I told him this will be the last time I will be coming in because I am moving to Sequim. He said he is leaving too. The station is going to bulldozed down next month. Again, life , constantly changing.
My next stop was the Bank of America cash machine because I wanted to have some cash for Saturday. I put my card in and it said "invalid number". I took it out and checked to be sure I had the right card and then tried it again. The same thing happened and I was not going to try it again and have the machine eat my card so I came home. I thought maybe somehow it got messed up when I put the change of address in. Donna told me to call Customer Service, which I did, but the automated voice said to expect appoximately a 13 minute wait. I was not about to sit on the phone that long. I waited until 10am and went to the bank. The lady in Customer Service checked everything out. The bank had my new address and there were no restrictions on my card. She said I might want to wait 24 hours to try it again. She said sometimes if there is trouble you have to wait until everything is clear. Anyway, I just took some money out in bank. When I got home Donna said I should go to Safeway and buy a couple of things to see if it works and it did. There must have been some glitch with the machine.
The Shell station is a full service station and that is why I go there. Being my lazy self, I like to have someone else pump my gas. This is the first time I opened the window on the driver's side and it made me a little nervous. I was thinking what if it doesn't go back up but it did.

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