Not for lack of trying

I called my (hopefully future) landlords yesterday to check if I could see the apartment. I have the first month’s rent and the deposit ready to give them as soon as I make sure the place is suitable for us. I’m almost positive that it is, but just need a brief walk-through to check it out. I might have blown it this time, she sounded annoyed. I think she thinks (always dangerous!) that I’m pushing her, and she’s right, I am.

We need a new address to start changing all of our mail, my son and I will need to take a driver’s test to apply for a license, because it’s a different state. There is a lot to do and only a few weeks to do it in—and I’m not even counting the actual packing and moving—the biggest jobs of all! So, yes, I WAS trying to get her to let me see the place so I could give her the rent and deposit!. But (future?) landlord was stubborn and not as happy with me as the first time I talked with her. Hope I didn’t blow it, I really want that place! It’s in the perfect location for my Mom and right next door to my good friend SLA. (future) Landlord said maybe by the end of the week, which is the 13th already, time is going by fast! And I will be out of the office on Friday, but I don’t dare call the (future) landlord again until she calls me. She also said I need to fill out an application and they will do a background check. I really really wish she would let me get going on those things TODAY!

I’ll be out of the office Friday for a sad reason. Yesterday morning as soon as I got off line to go to work my Mom called with bad news. My Aunt has died and her funeral is in a far away city, at 10:30 a.m. on Friday. I’ll have to drive out to my Mom’s on Thursday night, even though it’s in the opposite direction of the city where the funeral is being held. This will be a hard funeral to attend, my Aunt was so sweet that everyone loved her. Her husband, my Mom’s only remaining brother, is devastated. It was my cousin who called everyone about her mother. She’s the cousin I know the best, we went to school together for a year. I’m not looking forward to it at all and hope the weather holds out so the long drive is decent at least.

Yesterday I took the second civil service test. Well, actually it’s the 5th since the first test was four separate tests: written, bookkeeping, word processing and typing. This test was in the other state where I hope to rent that apartment. Yesterday’s test was the most fascinating test I’ve taken for a long time if not forever! It mostly consisted of paragraphs explaining types of crime, or a matrix on which police cars are available at which hours of the day. Each paragraph had one or two questions about it, so there was a lot of information in the test booklet. Wish I could have taken it home to reread it! The sample question was an easy one:

SAMPLE: Police uniforms are usually which color?
A. Black
B. Green
C. Brown
D. Blue

And here is one of the questions I remember:

1. Citizen A called the emergency number with a report that his car had been broken into and his CD player and some CDs stolen. What category of crime is this?
A. Break in
B. Burglary
C. Larceny
D. Theft

Pretty interesting test, huh? Sure hope I got a good score. The next step will be a test on actually fielding emergency calls (fake ones, of course). I’m not good at role play, hate faking responses. Guess I’d been terrible in theater! We’ll see how this goes.

There's so much going lately on that I've probably forgotten to tell you about something. Did you figure out the answers to the above questions? Have a Happy Hump Day!