May I Pull On Your Axles?

It's not a pick up line.   Not really.

I just want to feel your axles.  I want to pull them back and forth to see how much play is normal.

That's it.  May I?

So far no takers.   That old man didn't have to tell me to get out of here, and take your medication.  That was not nice.

Just kidding. No, I haven't asked anyone yet.   Tomorrow maybe.

I do want to feel some axles.

Simmering distrust over that mechanic's job made me pull on my own axles, especially the latest to be reinstalled.  There was some in and out play.   No way I thought.  I went to the other side, only installed once at least, and pulled back and forth on it---same amount of play.

I turned to reddit, then a toyota forum and found out I am not the only one who has experienced such issues, with mechanics fouling up an axle job, doing it again and then people wondering if its been done right.   One fella went to a new car lot and laid down and pulled back and forth on those new car axles to check how much play might be normal.  Some is, thank goodness.

But still, the underneath of my car is spattered in gear oil.  Is it leaking?  I don't know.   I have to clean off the mess he may have left first before I can tell much.  I'll do that tomorrow.  And because my distrust has only grown, I will take off the dust cover on the motor and pull off that hose over the pcv valve and make sure that was actually changed.   

Ok enough of my embarrassment, and that's what it is, over getting taken to the cleaners so to speak.

I'll get over it and hopefully learn a lesson.

Other frustrations:  I finally get all the figures added up to submit the yearly financials to the OR DOJ (justice department) for my nonprofit, fill in the info on their online portal and click submit and pay, only to have my submission rejected.   Suddenly I noticed I had clicked the circle in front of the federal form filed for HCC, when I should have clicked the circle after it.   Now, the online submission, didn't want to accept me changing it to clicking the circle after the right form.   I tried three times to submit and it said I now could not submit my data until I contacted the DOJ.  Uh oh, I thought, I'm in trouble.

One little slip of a click apparently messed me up good.

Isn't that the way life is now?

So I sent the doj an email and asked how to proceed.  It's a simple form and I've submitted it online for years without any trouble.  

Another frustration:   for years the pharmacy has had me on auto refill for my one prescription.  Suddenly I did not get an alert that it was time to refill.   I called them, they said I could come that day to get it.  I asked why I'm suddenly not on auto refill, but got no reply.  And I only got a few pills.  I asked why.  They said the doctor has to order a refill.   I said should I do anything.  They said no, they'd already contacted my doctors office.  And yet, by now, a week later, I have a weeks' left and I've not been contacted by the doctor's office or by the pharmacy to come get the full refill.   So tomorrow I have to deal with that also.