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Not Quite With It Sometimes


Once upon a time when I was young, I needed to have a car insurance adjuster give me an estimate on the damage done to the car I was driving at the time. I no longer recall what the damage was and how the car got damaged, which makes me think that some one thumped or scraped the car in a parking lot and drove away. Or, something similar that made a big enough of a dent for the Daddy to tell me to take it into an insurance office so that I can get it fixed. Immediately.

Got it. 

At the time I was a big girl working and living in San Francisco. Whoo-hooo!

Very responsible I was, this big girl that I was. I even knew where to take the car, without looking it up in the phone book. Remember that book?

Early one Saturday morning, a friend and I drove over to the State Farm Insurance Office near a mall south of the City. Easy peasy. I went into the office and told a guy what I needed. He picked up a clipboard, and, leading me back outside, asked, "Do you have your insurance card?"

"It's in the glove compartment."

"You get it while I take a look at the damage."

No problem, which was the motto of this big girl that I was.

I sat in the passenger's seat and opened the glove compartment. A whole bunch of stuff came tumbling out. And, sitting right on top of all that stuff were a couple of tampons.

Giggle. 


The friend didn't think it was funny at all. "Sue!" She was quite embarrassed when the insurance guy was suddenly behind her.

"Here it is," I said, stuffing everything back into the glove compartment and shutting the door. Snap.  I like to remember the snap as a nice devil-may-care snap. Snap.

"You know we're State Farm Insurance?" asked the insurance guy.

"Yes."

He handed me back the insurance card. "You're with Farmer's Insurance."

Giggle.


It's the letter Q at ABC Wednesday. Q-dedicated posts (or should I say dedicated Q posts?) are especially tough for me. For that matter, so are the other 25 letters of the alphabet.  Click here to check out other Q posts by ABCW participants. Join in, too, if you like.

Thanks, ABCW team!


Comments

  1. Ha ha Susie,
    Well i thought that was funny;
    I had a similar experince when i was running
    down a sloping street to catch the Ferry, when my train
    case (remember those) burst open spewing the contents on
    the ground. i managed to stuff most of my belongings
    back into my case and carried on my dash to catch the ferry.
    not to be...Oh noooh! as i canterd along the road there was
    a rather handsome chap running alongside me. I believe you
    dropped these as he thrust into my hands,
    four loose tampons and a pair of briefs (just in case, girl
    can't be too careful!) " I believe these are yours", he said.
    I was so embarrassed thatI wanted to throw my self in the
    river, To make matters worst he sat opposite me on the ferry boat,
    every time I looked up, there was his grinning face looking at me.
    by then I was the colour of crimson I was aged just 21 and newly married.
    best wishes,
    Di.
    abcw team.

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    1. I love your story! I could see it all in my mind. It would make a great scene in a movie, Di.

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  2. oopsssss well I guess the big girl was big enough to drive next to the right perons ;-)

    Have a wonderful ABC-day / - week
    ♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
    http://melodymusic.nl/a-b-c-wednesday-19-q/

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    1. I probably took it to the right insurance office when I next visited folks. I knew where that office was. lol

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  3. Oh dear...
    You had part of the name right anyway!

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  4. Oh, the tampon incidents ... every woman who's used them has at least one. :)

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  5. Quite with it enough for me my dear. You made me laugh. I like any letter of the alphabet that can make me do that. (I think it was the writer instead of the letter that was responsible though!). Thanks.

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  6. Great photo and fun story ~ (we all thought we knew so much when younger) ~

    Wishing you the kind of weekend you want ~ ^_^

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    1. That's what I say about the young people today. hahaha

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  7. LOL! It's funny to think how mature we though we were in our youth. Blessings!

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    1. yes, we knew everything back then. What happened to us?

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  8. Ha ha:):D Quite funny indeed:) The story and the pic both:)

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  9. Quick-minded you!
    Quirky story!

    ROG, ABCW

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  10. Now that's funny that you had the wrong insurance company. As for the tampons....we all have had experiences and mine was when I was 16 and so embarrassed to have to buy pads because, I was 16. There was no price tag on the pads that I was trying to hide and get through the check out without anyone noticing th I had to buy these. The sales lady went right on the Mike and said that this young blond girl has pads but no price tag. She said it so loud, I was shrinking. When another woman came to see what to look for, that sales lady held it up and said it again so loudly that I wanted to die. I knew she did it on purpose...probably made her day.

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