Meltdown over the car
Today was uneventful except for one thing. I got a new car. I was asked to trade my new, clean, tiny Ford KA rental for a BMW the company already owns. (It used to be a company car for a guy who's "no longer with the company.") Yes, the car is beautiful, but it's also huge and smells like smoke. It's some giant sedan thing that's so big that I can barely reach the pedals. It also has so many bells and whistles (with a poor interface) that I can't make anything work. I sat in the parking lot for 20 minutes today trying to program my radio stations in. It's got a single telematics system to control everything on the car, and a single dial and button that you have to use to control all of it. The interface is bad enough, but to make matters worse, I can't understand any of it, being in French. So after 20 minutes of trying to program the blasted radio stations, I had a minor meltdown, called Stephanie, and asked her who else in the company has this kind of car. I'll just have to get a run-down on how to work everything tomorrow, and I told Stephanie I was driving my KA for another day. Basically I just couldn't take it anymore. Parking this thing is going to be a nightmare, too -- I already have to do a multipoint turn to get out of my parking garage space in the mornings -- so I'm not sure if this car is even going to fit in my space. It's a beautiful car, but your whole concept of space here gets altered. This thing feels like a boat! We'll see about it tomorrow...I did hear tonight from 3 of the French guys I met in the metro on Saturday, though, including the crazy one I thought might flake out. Plus they all seem keen to do something, so I might've more than doubled my number of friends here. I hope!
You can check out pics of the before & after cars here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darcydement/date-taken-calendar/
posted by Darcy @ 9:43 PM
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