davids back

Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Cleaning the bike, and doing business on the phone.
Written by: David @ 10:51 am
I had a rather miserable day yesterday feeling sorry for myself with my cold. It seems only fair I can be that way when I’m sick. It validates all the discomfort I’m having. Today however I’m feeling a lot better after a much improved sleep and I already feel the cold started to wear off.
When I’m sick I like to do things to keep my mind off it, so in the morning I went down to give my motorbike a wash. I’ve never washed it before, seeing as it never gets that dirty with frequent use. I haven’t ridden it in over a month so it was looking very old and dusty and in dire need of some attention. Jay suggested I drive it to one of the car cleaning places, but seeing how cold it was, and me being in no mood to start riding my bike in below freezing temperatures, I settled for a small tub of warm water and a wash cloth.
Surprisingly enough, that’s all it needed and it came up looking, and sparkling, extremely well. Tomorrow I’ll take it for a ride seeing as I need to go to the taekwondo academy to drop off a few things there.
After washing my bike I decided I needed to do some cooking, so I promptly made some tuna patties for dinner. Not your dodgy, crappy ones either, but decent ones full of spices and herbs. They turned out good, Jay couldn’t get enough of them.
I then got an interesting call from a Korean women on my cell phone. At first I didn’t know what she wanted, but then I heard the word ‘Meritz’, which is the name of my insurance company for my motorbike. My insurance had run out yesterday, so I had planned today to get it renewed. Anyway, she didn’t speak a word of English so, as you can imagine, our conversation wasn’t going so well. I said enough to ensure her that I would be going to City Hall tomorrow to pay for it and that everything was ok. She seemed happy with that and hung up.
It was a bad conversation, she was patient enough with me on the phone, but just talked too fast for me to keep up.
So anyway, half way through the working day I’m told that a lady was at the reception area wanting to see me. Sure enough it was the insurance woman with all her paperwork. Thankfully I had withdrawn the money for the insurance earlier that day, 141,000 won (~$141USD), and paid up there and then. She was laughing a lot about our telephone conversation and remarked how good my Korean was. I thanked her, and she made a few more comments and laughed, none of which I understood.
So I just laughed too.
And that was that.