Sometimes stuff just sucks.
May 05 '08
The Bottom Line The April showers part I've got down. Eagerly awaiting May flowers.
So life was rolling along pretty much on schedule. We'd just had the transmission in my 10-year-old station wagon rebuilt - an unpleasant expense, but one that should keep my car rolling for at least another 50k miles or so. We had our first streak of warm humid air and discovered that our air-conditioner isn't cooling anything down worth beans. We have a sofa that's in desperate need of replacement and a mattress in barely better condition. I sent my HP laptop in for a routine warranty repair of a broken hinge and they sent it back with a reformatted hard drive. My external hard drive - the one with all my iTunes music on it - decides to make a pretty clicking sound instead of displaying my files.
You know... Life.
And then a week ago on Sunday night life comes screeching to a temporary but unexpected halt.
I was driving home at about 7:45 in the evening with my 16-year-old daughter in the seat beside me. We had taken the afore mentioned station wagon to our local big-box bookstore to buy a required tome for her English class.
About halfway back to the house, I was driving through an intersection on a green light. Unfortunately, a 17-year-old male was coming through from another direction on the red. He had a 19-year-old friend in the car with him and failed to notice that he didn't have the right of way.
I slammed into his back, left fender at roughly 40 mph.
The good news is this - everybody walked away from the accident. My daughter was transported to the emergency room because she was bleeding pretty badly from her nose and cheek and they wanted to rule out any neck or spine injury as well as treat the apparently broken nose. I was more than a little shook-up by the whole thing - at least as much by the sight of my daughter strapped to a backboard as by the accident itself. But the extent of my personal injuries was a stiff left wrist. When my daughter and I left the scene in the ambulance, the two young men from the other car were sitting on the curb looking pretty miserable.
Anyway - it may seem like that was a pretty bad day. Actually, though, it was quite the opposite. Any day you find yourself walking away from what could so easily have been a fatal accident is a pretty good day in my book. And my daughter's nose wasn't actually even busted.
Unfortunately, the days since then have been less than stellar. Talking to insurance adjusters isn't exactly my idea of a great time. And today I not only found out for sure that my car is being totaled and the insurance company wants to give us about $1500 below high-blue for it, but the rental has to go back tomorrow... a mere 2 days (errr... actually about a day and a half) following our notification of total loss. Not only that, our freezer suddenly seems not to be freezing anything.
So, heavy sigh, life has started up again, complete with the need for a new car, air-conditioning repair, refrigerator/freezer repair, a new hard drive, and the manual sorting of literally thousands of recovered computer files.
Yup. Life goes on. Donations gladly accepted.
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