{"id":62449,"date":"2011-09-11T00:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T04:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/62449\/light-tunnel-dimmed\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T00:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T04:21:30","slug":"light-tunnel-dimmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/62449\/light-tunnel-dimmed\/","title":{"rendered":"My Light At The End of the Tunnel is Dimmed, but I Can’t See It Anyways"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple blogs ago, I wrote about how enthused I had become about the possibility of returning to the road in a motor powered vehicle.\u00a0 Driving is something I\u2019ve taken for granted since I was 17; to be in one\u2019s 40\u2019s and to be banned from the road, yeah, that fact has been a big part of what I think about and how I see myself in this last year and a half.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"Consequently, seeing the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel in regards to getting my Washington state drivers\u2019 license back was like seeing a whole new life just there, within sight.\u00a0 I even contemplated what KIND of car I should get.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, I was so happy thinking that soon, I wouldn\u2019t have to deal with bicycles, rain, waiting for everything and being limited in where I could go and when.<\/p>\n

As I expressed this, I wondered \u201cam I counting my chicken-cars before they hatch?\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh, yeah, I was.<\/p>\n

See, big insurance companies may have deep enough pockets that they don\u2019t necessarily vigorously go after you for monies they put out, but they don\u2019t forget.\u00a0 They can do things to your driving privileges that passively make you need to pay them back.<\/p>\n

I, unfortunately, do not have deep pockets.<\/p>\n

I talked to the insurance company\u2019s lawyers; they were unfriendly and unwilling to work with me.\u00a0 They named a sum of money that seemed preposterously huge for me to get my drivers\u2019 license back.\u00a0 I felt crushed.\u00a0 The light at the end of the tunnel was snuffed, and I thought about reverting to Plan B.\u00a0 Plan B involves me moving to a new state where I can drive again, despite what I owe from my disaster here.<\/p>\n

I slept on it.\u00a0 I prayed for guidance as to what to do.\u00a0 When I awoke, I realized something.\u00a0 With this new job, I am capable of saving up enough money to pay the lawyers that amount that in and of itself would be enough for a very nice used car. It\u2019s just going to take a lot longer than I originally planned.\u00a0 I need to be frugal.\u00a0 Lots of ramen noodle dinners.\u00a0 Bringing my lunch to work.\u00a0 No frivolous purchases of new ukuleles. I can do this.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have one more winter of bus riding, but if I am vigilant in pursuing my goal, I will make it eventually.<\/p>\n

Now, that said, have you ever found out that your attempt to lose weight has failed, and so you went out and got a banana split?\u00a0 I had budgeted half my paycheck yesterday towards paying off some of the obstacles that are preventing me from driving, but given that I was thrown this huge new obstacle, I decided to spend it on something else. I spent a bunch of money yesterday on something I\u2019ve been wanting for a long time, but didn\u2019t necessarily need.<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019d be lying if I said that personal mobility is the only reason I want a car.\u00a0 See, my dwindling testosterone levels and the thought that one day, I might find a suitable mate to produce offspring with are subtle background influences.\u00a0 In other words, I want to get laid.\u00a0 Women aren\u2019t generally interested in a man whose ride has two wheels, pedals and says \u201cDiamondBack\u201d on the side.<\/p>\n

Well, another thing women like are men who are handy.\u00a0 Men who do masculine things like lift heavy objects, can perform and understand home improvement concepts like drilling into \u2018studs\u201d and how to \u2018mount\u2019 things and what plugs should \u2018penetrate\u2018 other plugs.\u00a0 Showing off my sexy shoulders in the 85 degree Seattle heat (it was hotter here today than in Los Angeles!).<\/p>\n

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Just in time for football season!<\/p>\n

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A couple blogs ago, I wrote about how enthused I had become about the possibility of returning to the road in a motor powered vehicle.\u00a0 Driving is something I\u2019ve taken for granted since I was 17; to be in one\u2019s 40\u2019s and to be banned from the road, yeah, that fact has been a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,9],"tags":[1128,81,372],"class_list":["post-62449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-life","category-sports","tag-football","tag-joko","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}