my mom

[thatguy]

How's your mom doing now?

well... last Friday she called me in the morning to say that she had been in a car accident the night before. Apparently, she decided in the evening that there was some item at a store somewhere in Sunnyvale that she required and decided to make a go at it. It was dark and rainy and she got lost. While trying to find a recognizable road home, she rear-ended someone. She said she's Ok as is the other driver. Their car wasn't damaged and they drove home. Her airbags didn't deploy, but the car want drivable and got towed away. The nice officers on the scene gave her a ride home, but she needed to get to her car in the wrecking yard before the weekend to get her belongings. 

I spent the morning trying to figure out how to get her from Cupertino to Sunnyvale and back. 

Now, I'm busy w/insurance and softly trying to suggest that she doesn't need a car (the struggles of getting her to the wrecking yard and back say otherwise). 

I guess we're muddling thru. 

--tg

fast forward - I was dealing with her insurance for almost a month. Having covid and sequestering didn't help. It's all done now and they're sending her a check, so she wants to go car shopping. 

I've been wanting to get her up to speed with Uber/Lyft and this Cupertino only service called Via. We finally tried it out this evening. Mixed results. They didn't come to the door even though she's registered with them as disabled and they are supposed to. We went to the Red Pepper on Foothill right next to 280. The driver took the long way around, down to stelling and then up homestead. He took long enough that we had no way to finish before their service stopped at 7pm. So we took out time, looked in a couple shops there and then I showed her how to use Lyft to get us back home. 
she's not "up to speed" by any means, but it was a good first try. 
cupertino is partnering with Santa Clara. They are changing the name of the service to Silicon Valley hopper on may 1 and scrapping the current app for a new one. 
oh joy. I get to start over

--tg
PS: I did take the cycle (ducati) to/from work today and it was great

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PPS: now I'm starting her taxes