This is no social crisis; just another tricky day for you...

[ornoth]

Funny that just as I’m putting so much time and energy into being someone else’s pillar of strength, so many bad things are happening to me.

Yesterday it was the bike. I took my bike to the shop for an unrelated fix, and they say they need to replace the headset, which they installed brand new just five weeks earlier.

As if that wasn’t enough gross incompetence, they don’t have the parts, and the guy who took my bike apart isn’t capable of putting it back together again using the old parts, so I have to survive the next ten or more days without my primary mode of transportation to my job or to the hospital to support my best friend in her time of need, and without any ability to continue training for my charity ride.

On top of the existing issues with the ceiling leak, falling behind in class, and being behind schedule in the fundraising for the charity ride, this is really getting discouraging. June (and perhaps now July?) seems to have been officially declared “National Kick Orny in the Teeth Month”. What crisis am I gonna have to endure next?

Comments

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if it would help but you would be welcome to my bike. It's not a high-end one but it works. Beyond that, I'm sending energy and good thoughts towards life being a bit more kind and gentle to you!

*hugs*

If you want to borrow the bike, just reply and we'll work out getting stuff to you, and if there are car-related errands you need done, I could help with those too.

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Appreciate the offer, really. I may have another line on a bike. It's more the principle of the thing, I guess. I'm just feeling awfully kicked around. Didn't get any better tonight, but I don't need to get into that. Thanks, tho.

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

That sucks. If you need to borrow a car, let me know. I commute by subway, so I could easily manage without mine for a few days during the week.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

that sucks. Won't be using that bike shop again, I imagine?

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

That's a *long* topic, which will probably get a post in my cycling journal in about a week. But, yeah. Grrrr!

[rubyred660.livejournal.com]

Can I bring you over some dinner? Life always seems easier to handle if someone else is cooking.

I'm actually serious, I'd be happy to drop off a care package for you. :)

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Oh man...I wish I could do something to help.