What Can Brown do for you ?

Have you had one of those days when you wake up on a Monday - wishing it was Friday . Its by far the bleakest note a week can start on - and so began my day .
I drive to work almost in a trance - uncanily enough my freaking horoscope thanks to MR Cainer (who I secretly suspect is my best friends boyfried ...thats the only bloody way this website can be soo accurate about how our days and months look) was also bang on :

Scorpio
"It is easy to forget, when there are tense astrological alignments at work, that you have strength, energy and power. But you do - even if all you can think about are the five and a half thousand things that must be done before lunchtime tomorrow plus another two billion to be sorted out by next weekend. Pressure? This is not pressure. This is slavery. You are being marched by merciless captors towards the altar of overkill. They want to offer you to the god of self-sacrifice. Don't let them. Quick. Escape!"

Escape . Right . So I pulled into work on a powder blue day and went about with my stuff - mutilating my keyboard et all.No reason to smell the roses today . Nah - not here . Just plain old plain banal everyday mundane bytes and bits competing for my attention.

As usual the cosmos had superior plans for my average day.
Four weeks ago - I called my credit card company and asked them to send me a new card since my old one was expiring . They UPS'd a temporary card to me while they sent the regular one by post.Unfortunately they needed a signature and all I could say was "Pehle uska sign leke aou ..jisne mere haath pe likkha .. " You get the picture . Anyways - after much hide and seek - my parcel is at a customer service center .
I left work early -beat the traffic and went to pick it up . This is where the greater plans unfolded.

My car died on me . In the parking lot . WWHHHHRRRR - thats all it did . I begged , prayed ,sang ,pleaded but nahi . It was just too bummed out being in a garage on a perfect day like this one .So began the 2 hour long wait for a tow truck.
I guess suddenly I had to enjoy the day or else be miserable . Luck is a lady on days like this . My car could have died on the interstate (there would have been a lot of tears..) ..but here I was in a parking lot - watching some pretty cute UPS drivers unload their trucks ..I had 2 books ..Bridgets Jones Dairy and By the River Piedra I sat down and cried , A bag on Halloween candy ..kitkats ,milk duds and malted chocolate , Breezy day in fall , Clear blue skies ..and 2 hours to spend.

It was like my own picnic - thats I spent alone . I organized my glove compartment . Cleaned the cups and windshield and nooks and corners . Then I read my car manual for the first time . Learnt my different warranty features - including 4 pages on how things would change if I lived in California , learnt my vin number by heart , fiude out how to open the bonnet (ha ! never had to be that before ) , checked the tire pressure (very deflated ..much like my psyche nowadays) ..played around with my music system and programmed all the radio stations , arranged the CD book , cleaned my purse , put on like a zillion calories from all the candy and was just about to count the number of ridges on my tyres ..when the town truck and my friend (who cane to rescue me - and I paln to buy her a superman outfit ) showed up .

Came home - tired , sweaty and exhausted .To find that my permanent credit card - had arroved in the mail today .

I guess the important thing to remember is that even if I completely lack a sense of humor on days like this ..the universes does...laughing out loud :)