Cuntmunchers

Here I go, bitching again.  And no this isn’t about lesbians or straight boys.

Not a good day at all so far!  Worked 10 hours and that went pretty fast actually, but I definitely felt the extra two hours, and then I went to gym afterwards which felt SO good when I left there.  I’d psyched myself up to go before and during work and stuck to it.  Walked home, saved the bus fare.  Get home, notice a traffic infringement on my car.  For FUCK SAKES!!  I LIVE HERE!!  Council REALLY shit me!  It says I’m parked within 10 meters of the intersection.  Pfft, they haven’t bloody cared the last three months I’ve been parking htere, nor everyone else!!  And to top it off, my battery is flat, so I can’t even move it!!  I’m pretty much sitting here watching my car like a hawk from my front window daring to see if that cuntmuncher tries to hand me another fine.  

So since I’ve been home, I’ve had the bonnet open, and the boot open looking for my shifter so I can remove the bolts holding my car battery in.  I have a battery charger inside the house here, which has saved me many a time in the past, so I’m just hoping it’ll get me out of this mess.  The good thing about trying to find the shifter was I got to give my car boot a much-needed clean out!  I threw out so much stuff, and shoved the spare tyre back underneath everything else rather than just on top taking up all the room 🙂  So yeah I found it, thankful I still had it amongst that mess, and removed the battery.  The negative side had so much corrosion on it, so I spent a quick minute scraping it off.  Maybe even that was the reason my car won’t start, but I doubt it.  I brought the battery inside and shoved it on the charger.  It’s up to 3 bars already but I want it to hit the 4th one before I shove it back in the car.  I wrote a hand-note and stuck it inside my windscreen reading that ‘This car’s battery is currently being charged and will be moved ASAP’.  I know traffic cops are ruthless snatchbaskets so they’ll probably just ignore the note and whack me with another fine.  I left the old infrigement notice out there though so they know they’ve already fined me.  Plus it makes them look back next to me note for anyone walking by, really.  Fuck them.

I rang up this morning and was quite abusive (for my terms) to the young lady on the other end of the phone.  I told her the sign is misleading and that they shouldn’t have even moved the fucking sign in the first place if they were just going to fine people anyway.  Her excuse to everything I said was ‘It’s a general road-rule, it doesn’t matter what sign was there’.  I then said my car was broken down so how the fuck was I meant to move it?  She said in that case I can fill out a statutory declaration so long as my claim was true.  Well technically my car WAS broken down before I got the first fine yesterday, so if I want I can protest it that way.  God, I think I have to go to a post office to get one of those forms.  And I need a Justice Of The Peace to witness my signing it.  They make protesting a simple traffic fine so fucking difficult.  Part of me just wants to pay it to get this shit out of the way, but then i think that’s what they’d expect most people to do.  I’ve taken photos of my car and where it is and everything, and I think I’ll go out and take more photos to show them there’s no battery in it.  That might work? 

Anyway, it’s pissed me off but I can’t do much about it other than hope when I shove my battery back in that the car starts.  And THEN I gotta hope I can find a different park to put it in, which will be near impossible this time of the day.  Might as well head to the post office and check this form out while I’m waiting for the 4th bar to show up.

In other news I entered my first ever Melbourne Cup this year.  They had a huge TAB stand in the Queen Street Mall, and people were even signing up at 6:30am haha.  They reckon Queenslanders are going to spend over $50 Million on betting on the Melbourne Cup this year.  I put $20 on ‘So You Think’ (the favourite) and I also put $10 on both ‘Shocking’ (last years winner) and ‘Maluckyday’ (just a wild punt really from the final gate lol).  Will be amazing if I win something, but I just figured hey what it’s a bit of fun and only happens once a year.  It just seemed to me that betting on 1 of 24 horses seems a hell of a lot better odds of winning than the lottery for example!  no wonder it’s so popular.  I guess if you followed the horses and knew their routine and race results and stuff.  Some of the cabbies are work were all telling me they are going for ‘So You Think’.  That horse has been likened to ‘Phar Lap’ so it must be half decent.  I guess I’ll find out in a few hours.  Also entered a random draw at work, but my horse is drawn from a hat so I have no choice over that one – it’s pretty much pure luck!  I’ll find out when I get to work tonight.