Bugger!

So I stuffed up before Easter which meant that we were car-less (or rather Ka-less) over the Easter break. We had intended to go driving over the Easter weekend up to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley as we have yet to see these wonderful places. All was good, I bought a new green slip and headed off to the RTA to re-register the car.
Nice chappy at the counter looks at my reg papers and asks "pink slip?" BUGGER! And there it was clear as day at the bottom of the paper work, a pink slip was needed in order to re-register. I still don't know how I missed it apart from it must have been in my blindspot. I looked at the reg paper several times before going to the RTA and I did not see that I needed a pink slip. I had also stuffed up with the due date as I thought I read the 8th April when it was actually the 1st! Must get my eyes checked LOL
The worse thing is, I had to get one last year as well because my car is over 3 years old, but it still didn't cross my mind this year. Lesson learnt!

So this morning she was booked in for the yearly tyre kicking routine that is the pink slip. We dropped her off at 8am and Ford would phone me when she was ready. About half an hour ago I decided to call Ford as I hadn't heard from them. All day I kept my mobile by my side, waiting for the call. Nothing, squat, zip, nada. So I phone Ford only when I tried to call my mobile froze dead, I couldn't do anything, couldn't even switch it off. Only one thing for it, take the battery out. Put it back and my phone jumped to life and I tried to phone Ford again. De, De, De.... De, De, De... you know that sound of the number is disconnected. I checked the time and knew that the garage closed at 5pm, it was a quarter to. Have the unplugged the phone so they can bugger off early I wondered. Next thing I know I get a text message come through saying that I have a new voicemail. Strange, my phone hasn't been switched off for long, talk about timing. Sure enough it was Ford telling me the car was ready but this message was left at 10.57am! I was certain I hadn't missed the call, the phone was always by my side. Still, I checked the missed call list to double check and sure enough there was no call! WTF? Sometimes I really despair of technology.

I have had my Sony Ericsson K300i phone for over two years and this isn't the first time the thing has frozen on me but it is the first time I've 'lost' a call. I previously had a T68i, I like Sony Ericissons and I loved that phone. It was blue and it was curvy, exactly my requirements! I loved the way it sat in my hand, it was small but because of it's shape you never felt like you were going to drop it. I did manage to slip it too quickly out of my bag one day though and broke half of the clip on the back. I could have bought a new back but it wasn't the integrated battery back that broke, it was the clip on the case, a little spring loaded thing. I was gutted! It still worked okay but the back was always a little loose after that where it wasn't clipping in properly. For some reason I could never send picture SMS from that phone even though it had the capability and I never have found out why. So the time had come to look for a new phone and the main requirement (apart from being able to make and recieve calls and SMS) was that it had to be blue! I can tell you that in a world where you can now get everything in pink as standard, trying to find a blue phone was not easy. I liked the K300i because it came in blue all be it a darker blue than I would have preferred and it was a Sony Ericsson. But given the choice, I'd rather have bought a brand new version of my old T68i.

They just don't make them like they used to.