Apr 05 2009

Curses! Foiled Again!

Published by at 4:35 pm under Life in Oaktown,Moving

This time, I actually tried to go and look at a house for rent in Petaluma, but I still didn’t get there. This time, it wasn’t my fault, though.

I was sailing along in the sunshine, listening to the new Neil Young (appropriately enough, it’s all about his car) and wishing it was never hotter than the current 75 degrees, when I ran into serious traffic. Of course it was after I had passed all the exits and either had to go left to the Bay Bridge or right, towards Berkeley.

I stayed in the Berkeley lane, thinking I could turn off soon and go home. It took more than forty minutes to go the mile and a half to the next exit, which deposited me in Emeryville, the big box store wasteland. You’d think it was 5:00 on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend and I was trying to drive to the Hamptons, instead of unglamorous Oakland at 1:00 on a Sunday afternoon. I called the house’s owner, who was sympathetic but said that five people were looking at it today. If none of them takes it, she’ll call me and I can see it later this week. Given my usual luck and the cuteness of the house:

I’m not holding my breath.

I have two calls in to another house owner, but I’m beginning to remember from my long-ago dating days that if you call someone twice and they don’t call you back, that’s an answer, too.

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2 Responses to “Curses! Foiled Again!”

  1. # Guyon 06 Apr 2009 at 4:52 am

    The house on your photo, white picked fence, looks great, hope you get a chance to get to at least see it, good luck.

  2. # Kellyon 06 Apr 2009 at 8:45 am

    Good luck, honey. Something will work out. I fail to understand it when anyone refers to home/apartment-hunting as “fun”. Ick.