Thursday morning I woke up in the wee hours, noticed Aaron was still next to me, looked at the clock and saw 5:32. Wonderful. Aaron's vanpool had left 10 minutes earlier. Aaron would have to drive to work. It just so happens that the pass Aaron would have to drive through to get to work is on fire and they have that road closed. The alternative way is a little dirt road that Aaron wasn't comfortable driving our little Hyundai on. So he drove the Durango to work. Here's a little bit of trivia for you: To drive our gas-hog Dodge to Dugway and back costs $30.
So, Aaron got home from work last night and the following charming conversation commenced:
Aaron: "Wanna hear the dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, bad Aaron news?"
Me: ". . . . . . . . . . . . . .No."
Long pause.
Me: "But you want to tell me?"
Aaron: "I probably should, yeah."
Pause
Aaron: "I backed the car into a dumpster today."
He then explained that it was too short and out of his line of site, so while pulling out of a parking spot he hit it. CRUNCH!
See how happy this makes him?
Now for some backlog. When we first bought the thing we notified Geico and got it put on our insurance. We've been paying for it and everything. But one thing that had to be done was a check by geico people to make sure that there were no bumps or scratches on it already. So we paid to have that done, got the receipt, and expected it to be taken care of. WRONG! The guy never logged it into the system. Many phone calls, failed faxes, claimed unreceived emails, and months later, Aaron finally got it all figured out. I think Tuesday was the day that we were all official with insurance. Phew!
We have a $500 deductible to pay. So much for Christmas.
Trivia: To drive the gas-hog Dodge Durango to Dugway and back costs $530.
6 comments:
Oh rats! Makes me sick to read of your car crunch. I scraped against a round cement doo dah in Tawnya's driveway one dark and rainy night last winter. Oh, I hate that sound. Similar cost. Ouch.
Hahahhahahahaha!!!!!
My question is, why get it fixed? It really doesn't look that bad.
You and Aaron are so funny.
Those SUV's always look so tough, but give them a little scrape and you find they're still only made of tuna fish cans.
Aaron, did you give your forehead a good smack with your hand and say a fine word or two?
I rubbed the van against a red pylon at the Maverik pump the other day. Now we have a Christmas colored van.
It's always a total bummer to have to spend windfalls on necessities. i.e. our government stimulus check lies still uncashed. The debate continues: 1) help pay down the LOC business debt? 2) pay it as a pittance towards a new furnace?
I am not in favor of life's little foibles.
Insurance can be such a pain. They are always glad to take our money. After the brown Suburban was smashed into by the drunk I submitted the claim estimate and learned that I only had comp. I thought I had full insurance. So when I traded it in, is still had the crinkle.
Oh NO! Sorry to hear about that!
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