Things I learned today . . .

1. Dad-the-bad doesn't answer his phone when I need him.
2. I sometimes I think I need him when I really don't.
3. Actually, I'm quite capable of calling the insurance company, reporting my accident and directing the insurance evaluator to the accident site.
4. I am also capable of writing an accident report - although my written Spanish is around 3rd grade level, but they don't seem to mind.
5. If you enter the wrong shopping mall parking, realize your mistake then continue out the other side, you still have to pay for parking, even if you never left the ramp (at least here in Mexico.)
6. If you don't know that, your ticket won't open the gate. Then you have to leave your car on the ramp, blocking all out-going cars, walk all the way down the ramp two floors where you can pay for your ticket, then walk all the way back up with people yelling at you, then put your ticket in the machine to open the gate (OR crash through the gate with your car. However, since I had already called the insurance company once that morning, I chose the former.)
7. Swearing at the machine is futile.
8. Rolling down the window and yelling to surrounding pedestrians that you will NEVER EVER patronize said shopping mall again, however, is quite therapeutic.
It's been one of those days.