Over the weekend we saw Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy because I love Will Ferrell. His acting did not disappoint, but the movie wasn’t as enjoyable as I was expecting. I don’t know if it was because, as someone in the blog world has already pointed out, there wasn’t much of a plot, or if it was due to the extremely rude man and his two pre-teen boys in the theatre. The boys were continuously getting out of their seats and walking around, talking, giggling and carrying on way too loudly, and playing with a laser pointer on the screen. I finally got up and walked over to them and said something to them about how rude they were being. I am so sick of rude and inconsiderate people at the movies. There were no more than twenty people in the theatre and these people were ruining the entire experience. And what kind of parent allows this behavior? I believe he was sitting there snickering at the laser pointing thing just like his stupid kids. I’ve never been so pissed off at a rude person before. They were way over the line. Joe ended up missing some of the best parts of the movie because he had to find an usher to ensure these people didn’t start acting up again. When I ran into them in the lobby I just gave the father a cold hard stare and shook my head. People really need to grow up. Maybe when I get to see the movie a second time in the privacy and quiet of my own home I might find it more enjoyable. Why exactly do I even pay to see these movies anymore? I would say that more than half the time a rude person, or group of people, ruins the experience.
Month: July 2004
Raw, Part III
Well I’ve been taking my medication twice a day as directed by my doctor, but my throat still feels sore. I’m starting to think it’s something else because it just occurred to me that my left ear has felt itchy and damp inside for about the same time my throat has been bothering me. This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had trapped water in that ear, so I wonder if that’s it. I think I might have to schedule a follow-up visit with the doctor. I wish our new insurance, which begins Sept 1st, was in affect already since the co-pays are lower, as are prescriptions.
Leaky car
Earlier in the week I called my dealership’s body shop to tell them about my leaking car since I suspected it’s a direct result of my car not being repaired properly when it was hit back in January. Luckily this shop agreed with my assumption and has a lifetime guarantee on their work, so I dropped my car off this afternoon and they are going to fix it for free. Originally it was only going to take a few hours, but after realizing they have to take out the back glass and reseal it, they need to keep it overnight. Joe has to be at his parent’s place super early tomorrow to get ready for their garage sale, and my office building doesn’t open until 7am, so we were trying to figure out what to do short of paying for a taxi to get to work. Luckily my friend and former coworker came to the rescue. Her office isn’t very far from mine, so she’s gonna drive me to work. She’s going a bit out of her way to come get me, so I feel bad, but I’ve done favors for her so I’m sure it evens out.
Did I mention this has been one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a very long time? I can’t wait for the weekend!!! One more day! We’re seeing three more townhomes tomorrow. As much as a part of me wants to just forget about looking, I know that doesn’t make sense and we could miss out on something good, so we’re going to forge ahead. I’ll let you know all about it once we’re actually moved in so as not to jinx it again.
How it happened
I didn’t go into work today. I gave myself a huge headache by getting upset about losing the townhome. I’m trying to be positive about this by thinking that it just wasn’t meant to be and we’ll find something even better, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m pissed off about what happened.
The listing agent was the one who wanted to work out the deal late Tuesday evening and we didn’t want to waste any time and agreed. Once we had their verbal agreement, we arranged to have me initial the new paperwork and then get the seller’s signatures. Apparently we didn’t get them quick enough. What irks me the most is how the listing agent avoided our agent’s calls and made us wait until late last night to tell us they accepted another offer. Not only that, but she didn’t even give us the opportunity to match or exceed the other offer. To me that is just unethical. If I was the seller, I wouldn’t do that. Oh that’s so easy to say, you’re probably thinking, but I wouldn’t. If I’ve agreed to something, I stick to my word. If the seller really didn’t want to sell us the place for the price they eventually agreed to, they could have said no. Hell, they could have told us they’d sleep on it. It would have sucked, but at least we wouldn’t have thought the place was ours.
I’d be really interested to see how much it ended up getting sold for. I know our agent will tell us once everything is said and done. I will be so angry if it’s a couple thousand dollars because I think we would have upped our price just to ensure we had the place. It was that nice. Hardwood floors, lots of space, great layout. Ugh. I was going to post pictures but there’s no point in doing so now. I feel like such a gullible person too. This has definitely changed my whole attitude about the process. And our agent apparently gave the other agent an earful as well. I don’t know who she is, but I told our agent that we refuse to even look at a place that she’s selling in the future.
As for the sellers, I’m angry with them too. I understand they only lived in the place for two years and had to do what they could to get as much money as possible, but the way they went about it was not nice. They should have either started off with a higher asking price, or like I said, not agreed to ours. And what gets me is that the final agreed upon price was right in the middle of what the same exact layouts were sold for in the same subdivision. So it’s not like we were asking for a steal. Some appliances were new and others were quite old.
Oh well, no sense in talking about it anymore. I will be angry about this until we do get a place. But I won’t talk about it here until it really is a done deal. I feel like I jinxed things by mentioning it.
Nevermind
Well it looks like we’re not moving because those unethical jerks got another offer today and decided to accept it even though they had agreed to ours. That is just mean. I am very sad and angry. I’ll get it over it eventually. It wasn’t meant to be. Blah blah blah. But it still hurts.