A pleasant waste of my goddamn time
Feb. 3rd, 2010 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsYesterday, while driving to a client's site, a car in front of me threw up a rock that hit my windshield and chipped it. It wasn't a bad chip, no more than a half-centimeter across or so, but it was annoying and presented an ongoing crack risk.
I drove out this afternoon to the glass place to get it fixed, and the girl behind the counter said, "Talk to your insurance company first. They might cover it all." It was only four or five menus down (Language -> Accident claim -> First claim -> Glass claim -> On-site), not tragically horrible, and when I told the guy I was actually at the glass place with which my insurance company deals, he said, "Oh! In that case, give them this number," and he rattled off a number, "And they'll jump you to the front of the line."
It took only 25 minutes, plus 20 minutes drive time there and 20 back, so not too bad. I brought my ebook reader with me and, intent on deleting a corrupted file (the Honor Harrington collection from the disk that came with War of Honor had somehow frotzed on me), I accidentally hit "delete all read files," which includes even those I hadn't finished reading, frack! I was left with only a few really bad romances ("the curve of his turgid testicles?" Please, sister!).
Compared to many experiences I've had with bureaucracy, these people seemed earnestly interested in getting me back on the road as quickly and safely as possible.
I drove out this afternoon to the glass place to get it fixed, and the girl behind the counter said, "Talk to your insurance company first. They might cover it all." It was only four or five menus down (Language -> Accident claim -> First claim -> Glass claim -> On-site), not tragically horrible, and when I told the guy I was actually at the glass place with which my insurance company deals, he said, "Oh! In that case, give them this number," and he rattled off a number, "And they'll jump you to the front of the line."
It took only 25 minutes, plus 20 minutes drive time there and 20 back, so not too bad. I brought my ebook reader with me and, intent on deleting a corrupted file (the Honor Harrington collection from the disk that came with War of Honor had somehow frotzed on me), I accidentally hit "delete all read files," which includes even those I hadn't finished reading, frack! I was left with only a few really bad romances ("the curve of his turgid testicles?" Please, sister!).
Compared to many experiences I've had with bureaucracy, these people seemed earnestly interested in getting me back on the road as quickly and safely as possible.
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Date: 2010-02-03 09:23 pm (UTC)http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
I didn't know War of Honor had a CD - anything other then the Honor series on it?
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