Life’s April Fool’s Joke

Just as you think everything is looking up and you can breathe fate steps in and throws you a curve ball.  Yesterday I was thinking this paycheck from the temp job put me just enough ahead to pay an extra month on my property taxes.  My hope was that it would all go toward the arrears thereby lowering the monthly amount when they refigure my payments in June. 

This morning (April 1^st) just laughed in my face.   I grabbed a slab of cashew butter on cheap soft white bread (a CB&J since allergies to PB) as I went out the door to work.  As I rounded the corner before entering the freeway I savored my first bite and wondered “what’s that hard thing in the bread?”  I separated it from the rests of the bite with my tongue and spit a pea size piece of tooth into my fingers.  At the stop light I located the back molar from which it came and assessed the damage.  I’m ok to last a few days until I can see a dentist. 

I got to the parking lot of the temp job and pulled out my cell phone to call the dentist.  Well there is a portion of the touch screen that is now dead… I cannot call any numbers with a 5, 8 or 0…“Ok! joke’s over!” I yelled toward the heavens.  I get to the parking lot 20 minutes early each day so I think, “They are only a few blocks away maybe they open at 8 and I can just run in to make the appointment so I can still be to work on time.  Got to the dentist office in 4 minutes… they must open at 9 because no one there.

The estimates I am thinking for tooth if they can just replace the filling and avoid a crown… $200-$250. The estimate for a new phone IF they allow me to renew the contract before it is really time to renew is about the same… The two combined is about $50 - $100 more than I was planning to pay on the property taxes.  The phone estimate could double if they make me purchase a replacement phone at full price and not allow an early renewal.  

Like “nature abhors a vacuum” then “the finance fates abhors extra money”.