dude...wtf?

It always happens that when I think things can't get any worse, they of course do.

I now have a toothache to the point the whole right side of my face hurts and my bosses wife's driver came round to the office last night and took the keys away.

I told #3 yesterday that I NEED to get my check cashed today and that I will be late coming into the office. He was fine about it and when I got here I told him that I made a dentist appointment for Thursday.

He looked at me and asked me where my appointment was. I told him at my dentists office about a block away.

He didn't say anything but looked at me for a full 30 seconds and knocked his knuckles on my desk like he was trying to think of a way to tell me I can't go.

I broke the silence and said, "listen, my tooth hurts, I'm in pain, and I'm TELLING you that I'm going."

He walked away without saying a single thing.

The end is near, I can feel it in the air. Frankly, I may even be fired for my "attitude" but what am I going to do? Not go to the dentist when half of my face hurts?

My trip to the bank was thoroughly complicated and time consuming this morning.

Parking in that whole area..who the fuck thought up that crazy plan? I ended up parking by the Sheraton and walking after driving around for 25 minutes looking for a spot.

I actually had some asshole reverse his car, blocking me from moving and he went and got another car to put in it's place. I leaned on my horn the whole time, as he took his sweet ass time and he just looked at me like nothing was going on in his brain, just a blank stare.

So when I actually got to the bank, I did something I never do. I went to the front of the line.

I'm very thoroughly against gender based discrimination but fuck it. Today, I needed that. I justified it to myself that it was all men in the parking lot that had held me up from parking for 25 minutes and this was just making up for lost time.

Usually, I wait my turn with the men and graciously pass up the many opportunities given to me to move ahead, saying "we're all people, just the same."

For western readers, (and I'm not sure if it's the same with every bank here) but the bank I go to let's women go to the front of the line. Today, I did it for the first time and I didn't care.

Also for western readers, the ratio of men to women at the banks (and almost everywhere else) is about 100:1. Muscat is a sausage party.

As for other things that I've done since yesterday that I'm not exactly proud of, this tops the list. On my way home, I got cut off big time by some asshole who did a U-turn right in front of me. I leaned on my horn and carried on. The man then cut someone else off, who also honked their horn.

The man then turned into my neighbourhood and I thought fuck it, I'm going to follow him and tell him off.

And I did. I yelled at him. He had his 3 kids in the car. Oh well. I hope they all learn the lesson of how that's not appreciated and that other people value their own lives even if other people have little regard for them on the road.

I full on gave him a lecture while he stared at me like there was nothing going on in his head.

The particular stretch of road where the man cut me off, I have seen 6 accidents in 4 days. I don't want that to happen to me. For local readers it was between Wizarat Roundabout and 18th November Street.

So, to continue the theme of me raising my voice with strangers, some young men were driving around my block and slowing their car to a crawl while drooling at me as they went past me as I was feeding the stray cats.

On their 3rd pass I asked them what the fuck their problem was. They were like "what? what?" and I said, you're fucking staring at me!

They left and didn't come back.

I then went inside and drank half a bottle of wine.