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Topic: General Babbling
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Have you been recently feeling like if some1 had banged yer head with a sledgehammer?
I have. Today.
It all started when I woke up approximately 1h too early being confident about the fact that I`ve slept late from my first working day of this week. It`s officially the week of the winter break from the schools of this region, but for me this is a chance to make some money and earn some valuable work experience, which hopefully would help me to get a permanent job as a vehicle installer. It was - as you will soon read more - for me also a chance to meet a person I had been eager to see since I heard of his 1 sort of return to the circles where we originally me so many years ago. ♥
So, today's episodes started by me forcing myself back to bed for gathering strenght & energy for the upcoming day, but I was up again right after my cellphone went on - calling me to rise and shine at work. Good thing I wok up early enough, I was the 1st at the garage and the day got good start: I got a Mazda 323 Mio for winter overhaul and inspection check! I went so hyper for the joy that it got my brains buzz too many other things at the same time too and it didn`t help me much when Okie was asking me where I had put his tools. Fortunately the missing tools were (mainly) such I hadn`t been using, so I could tell him he`s barking the wrong tree. The Mio-Mazda got also exmplary results for the exhaust gas testing so it was only up to the authoriries if they approved the broken shock brake shields or not. (I wouldn`t have, if I were `em.)
It feels odd that on Monday pre-noon time the inspection office would be crowded with customers - and I mean CROWDED - and I saw 4 of the 5 inspectors working at the inspection hall at the same time, which`s unusual. Normally when I`ve visited that office, there`s been 2 men at the garage and perhaps 1 at the office, + of course the ladies behind the service desk but now everybody was rushing and jighly buzy, so there was nothing to do except wait nicely in the queue till yer turn comes.
As I was waiting for my turn I saw those inspectors taking their customers in 1 by 1 in front of me, until I spotted at quite distance a new man. I had heard from Wevania on my last work practice day of the 2nd training season that there was a new car inspector at the local office and I had been then so extremely eager to get a gig to the inspection office (without any luck) but today - me & the Mio-Mazda - nothing came on my way and I was luck to be there on the day this new guy was working. I spotted him picking up a customer car and thought "Hmmmm... That`s not HK (= the youngest inspector I knew there) - must be the new guy... Mmm! Handsome!"
Some time later I got the chief inspector himself and we had some discussion about the qualities of the car. Gotta say that the brakes were nearly as perfect a such car can have, only the front brakes had a minor 8% difference compared to each other, butthe rest were equal on both sides and the braking powers were again like from the school books - a like true model piece. Even the wheel support (shock brakers, springs) gave good figures - my overhauling had been exact and scrupulous. We were discussing about the career and education for the inspections (where, how long, etc...) until I came to ask him about the new guy... When I asked if he remembered his birth year to make sure this new inspector is who I had thought him to be, the head inspector called him to us. I asked him if he was the man I`m calling from now on as J. Islafield (don`t try to translate that name - it`s my own variation partly referring to the places of our childhood surroundings) and he said yes. I asked where he was from and he told me the town. I said yes, I know, but where in this toen and he starts to explain a bit like to a person who`s not necessarily knowing the places very well and then I confirmed from him his birth year - his looks were slightly puzzled, how it was possible that a strange woman who looks quite much yougnger than he, knows the place he`s from, his birth year and him without him knowing anyone who`d reminded like me. I grinned and asked if - telling my real name - rings any bell and his face melt in big surprise and recognition. We were on the same class the 1st 4 years in the elementary school and nearly neighbours `till I had to move away with my parents because of my dad`s new job. I can`t help wondering how different my life might be if we hadn`t moved, because now I`m driving the same road just to the opposite direction than my dad would`ve then if we hadn`t moved in the 1st place. 1 thing at least would be quite sure: in that case I`d hardly ever gone the school I`m studying now for the last year, hardly ever meeting those fantastic guys of my class or Jensai and her sister Anubis, who by the way though me to be having fun with Hottis at work, but later today when I was on the phone (Jensai called) it cleared to both of us Anubis had seen the car of the lady-boss of this company and mixed it to the car of Hottis - thanx to the alikeness of `em. Anyway, it felt odd to shake hand with J. Islafield after growing within 100m from each other and all those numerous times we used to wait the school bus at the same stop. His hai was now much lighter and his eyes seemed so too, though his glasses (When he had gotten those?! O_o ) might have influeced that way too. I wuldn`t have recognized him if we had met on the street, but despite of that there was still the same sparkle in his gaze and the grinning smile as I had remembered him to have. I must confess, I think it`s safe now after so many years, but at the age of 6, when we were on the 1st grade at school, I remember I had a huge crush on him, he was back then 1 of the 3 most comely (= good-looking) guys, but his eye colour had disturbed me, but the more I met guys, the more the attraction towards him went flat `till not very long time later he was nothing more than a classmate to me and I could look him straight in the eye. Now, so many years later I`m confessing all, because while I was walking back from the grocery store towards my parents place I realized, thanx to 1 poster I`ve got on my wall (Jensai & Anubis know the poster, they`ve the same too), J. Islafield has left deeper markings about himself into my soul than I had ever believed and even - I realized this not until now - helped me to get friendly with certain people who even remotely have reminded me from him without me knowing that in the 1st place. He got my heart drop its track for a blink of an eye today - not for love or attraction, but got me thinking why the good men are always taken, there seems to be avaible only those who need a new momma. Till the moment of meeting him again after all these many years, I had been satisfied with myself being on my on - not tied by any man and I had concidered myself ok looking, but on the moment of lokking at him, face to face, I was thinking myself not being good enough by my looks, intelligence, succes and wealthiness to any man who`s not clinging to his girlfriend but takes her as his equal mate. Now when pondering this all - looking at the same time my old school photos - I find loosing my joy of meeting him and growing bitter about the bad choises I`ve made in my past, bitter that I don`t have practical brains and stunning looks, but a sharp tongue and talent for trouble. Especially now when Suspicious Thomas is AGAIN behind my back pointing my errors and making me feel I`d need to go back on the 1st grade to tear the nerves of TomTom.