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My parents' car has caught on fire and it burned down completely. Luckily, everyone is alright. My dad was driving it alone getting back from grandma, and coming home for lunch. My mom and I were weirded out because he was late and he had work in the afternoon, and of course he forgot his phone at home... Then we noticed heavy black smoke on the bridge that's visible from our building but it was partially covered by trees. I climbed up to the top floor to get a better view and we figured dad was probably stuck in the traffic. Someone even posted on our towns facebook group about how something is burning on the bridge and the car in front of the guy that took the picture of the smoke was of the same make as ours, so we figured that's definitely dad. Well we were wrong as our car was the one that created the traffic. The traffic cleared in like 5 minutes and dad still wasn't coming home so I knew something was up, mom is a big optimist (actually she probably just doesn't want to say her doubts out loud lmao) so she was like "he's coming any minute now". Soon after my dads phone got a call from a friend of his and he said he saw our dad standing next to our burnt down car so he was checking up on him. Rip our family car, you served us well for 16 years. Sad it had to go down this way... Police investigation concluded it was probably a short circuit. They had like 4 people use fire extinguishers before the firefighters came, but there was no helping it. Gone in 2 minutes. Luckily my dad took out his wallet and whatever stuff he bought today. His drivers license stayed inside though. At first he was in so much shock that the guy who stopped him to tell him his car is on fire had to pull him out of the car physically and after the fire was extinguished he went to ask the firefighters if he could retrieve his drivers license lmao. Funny how shock works.
My parents are really not doing well financially (well more like, it's fine if there's no emergency), so this was just yet another blow in a series of blows that just never seems to end. Feels like our property is just getting smaller and smaller each year. First the house, now the car... But we always scrape by in the end, and no doubt we'll do it this time as well. We're all grieving our old car now, since we have so many memories tied to it. It almost feels as if a pet died, as stupid as it sounds. I even learned how to drive in it! It's really shocking to see something so important to you completely burn down to the point that it's barely recognizeable. Oh well, at least my dad managed to get out without so much as a scratch. AND he didn't leave his wallet inside, which is definitely the type of thing he would usually do lmao. The added stress from all the extra bureocracy would probably be more traumatizing than the fire itself...
I wanted to rant about so many things today, but now I totally lost the motivation, understandably. Anyway, I changed my discord username with the new retarded update and I updated the change in the contact box.
I went to an all female tattoo convention this weekend! It was super cool and enjoyable. I booked a tattoo appointment later this month with an artist I really admire, I'll be getting my first handpoke tattoo aw yeahhhh. I bought a tote bag and two prints, and got a ton of free stickers (I did donate a few € for them though!!). The convention was quite lively with a lot of people, and I think like 13 artists were featured at the convention or something. So happy to support these women, they're all doing great jobs and are so PLEASANT to work and talk with. Cough cough. I saw the artist of my first tattoo there (she was just a visitor, she has a job now at a super popular and expensive studio!!) and she remembered my name and my whole life story lmao. The weather was great, the music and vibes were great too... Great experience and I hope I'll be here next year so I can attend it again.
On the same day I visited the mall near my moms workplace and went to the bookstore, and god, the manga wall keeps getting bigger and bigger each time I visit that bookstore. Teenage me would have been so happy. Shame that volumes are so expensive though, they're like 15€ for soft cover volumes, almost 30€ for hardcovers... That's why buying manga is usually just a birthday/christmas gift for me... But it's still kind of cool to see. I saw a cute manga that caught my eye called "Cats of the Louvre" by Taiyou Matsumoto (Ping Pong and Tekkon Kinkreet) so I began reading it on my phone. Pretty cute so far, it's only 2 volumes long.
Also, I went to a funeral. Haven't been to one in a while. This was a proper traditional village funeral, meaning men walk behind the casket first and women second. I don't think I ever experienced that before, not even at my great grandmothers funeral. Very interesting... Good old Catholic misogyny aside, traditional village funerals do have an upside to them - the wake is usually very lively and they tend to be pretty fancy and open to a larger amount of people. So, I can't say I left with an empty stomach that's for sure. Plus, I talked with family members I might have seen once in my life prior to this. You always find out something interesting! The man whose funeral I attended was my grandfathers uncle, I do remember meeting him once or twice. He was a kind old man, and he lived to a good age. From what I heard, he seems to have died as peacefully as possible, so I'm glad he didn't suffer much. I did feel like crying when I saw his wife, she looked devastated. She's also a very nice lady. Ah, funerals always get me feeling some type of way.