My Daily Struggle in the COVID-19 Lockdown

 This has not been the best week. First,  I had to argue with health-based providers about them not doing their job. Then, on Friday, my morning started, among other unpleasant things, with me approaching my car to see that someone hit it the night before, and I did not see a note.  Look at my poor car! The person's light obviously broke, and they didn't bother to clean it up. Because of the dent in the bumper cover, it is hard to open and close the hatch. Thankfully, my next door neighbor admitted that her sister slammed into it, but that she left a note. Well, either someone removed it or the wind blew it away. Or, perhaps she is lying. I had to talk to my neighbor's husband to get her phone number because the woman was supposed to call me but didn't. Now, she is taking her sweet time to give me her insurance information. She said that she is going through hard times, but so am I. Wrecking my car does not help. I am prepared to be a thorn in her side until I get her i...

Another day. Today, I actually had Chinese food! I had to go all the way to Evergreen Park for take out at Chi-Tung. It was great to have Mongolian beef with those crispy saifun noodles; Chi-Tung is the only place outside of the city that serves this little delights with Mongolian beef or chicken. Every other Chinese place in the Southwestern suburbs does not even have these. I don't understand why. Another thing that I cannot understand is why it is so hard to find good Chinese food around Bridgeview. When we first moved here, we went to Ing's Palace. I ordered General Tso's chicken, and they gave me a chicken schnitzel that was sliced up and drowned in sweet and sour sauce.  We then tried Golden Chef, which was good for chicken dishes, but beef dishes came teeming with gravy, forcing the question, "Where's the beef?" Maybe I am just used to city food, but I can go to a greasy hole in the wall and walk away satisfied. We would have gone with Chi-Tung, but t...

Great news! Steven Landek, the Mayor of Bridgeview, my town, endorsed my blog! I wrote to him to see if Bridgeview had any plans for making masks mandatory, and he replied to say that Bridgeview would only follow what the Governor instructs.  Then, he wrote the following: "Also, I very much enjoy reading your daily post !!!  Don’t worry about the critics.  Nothing will ever be achieved by listening to the critic.  As Teddy Roosevelt noted in his famous speech, The Men In The Area, '…it is not the critic who counts…'" This post really made my week, and it is only Monday!!! And don't worry either, Mr. Mayor! I am too hardheaded to let critics stop me. If I did, I would never try to accomplish anything. I would not have gone to college or grad school, and I would not be a social worker. I would not be a writer either. I have noticed that the usual critics fit into two categories. The first one category belongs to those who keep everything and everyone int...