The motor mechanic did not manage to repair the car, he has claimed further damage. This is irritating, for his story conflicts with another story, also from a qualified source. There is little opportunity to do anything but to pay, and to put further new parts into the old vehicle. There is nothing else to be done.
The whole business is a waste of a day, waiting for telephone calls, dealing with this ineftficiency. But there is hope that the car will be in order afterwards.
Today, the pains of getting older have receded somewhat, and a plastic bag with quite a lot of money in it is not where it should be. Search the table, still in the dark so as not to switch on the light and to waken the wife. Then look upstairs, because of the bright windows it is light up there. Then, downstairs again, empty the jacket's pockets. There, after half a dozen face masks is the plastic bag with the twenty ten-Euro notes.
That was an early morning warning for worse to come.
Even the poached eggs this morning did not turn out right. Surely it cannot be because they were a special offer, being sold at a silly price. An offer the wife could not refuse, resulting in a surfeit of eggs.
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