2 posts tagged “hit & run”

For those of you who are interested, my car was totaled in the hit & run. I keep trying to stay positive by thinking: "at least no one was in the car" and "at least I didn't have to pay my really high deductible" and "at least I got a bunch of streetglass." Besides the fact that no one was hurt, they're pretty small consolations for the week-long headache of getting a new car. Which I did on Monday - well, it's a new used car... Actually, it's sort of a beater, but it runs well, smells like soap, has decent gas mileage, and gets me where I need to go. And that extra money from the car is going into the house kitty.

Since the accident, I haven't scribbled (or exercised or cooked or cleaned the house or ... ), but I'm finally starting to feel sane enough to start up again, and I hope to have something new to post tomorrow. I spent the last several days as a giant ball of stress, and I know I was a pain to any/everyone who had deal with me in real life. Apologies to all of you. Anyway, to make up for my grumpiness and my last few whining posts, I thought I'd post two drawings from last week. Hope you enjoy.

The doorbell rang at 3:00 this morning. I assumed it was a ringer malfunction. We have an old house with an even older doorbell that likes to ring when no one is around. But a quick peep out the window revealed that there was someone outside - a rather surly looking man. There were lights flashing. Maybe someone was hurt or something and needed help. So I sent the boyfriend down while I hunkered down in bed.

Turned out that the surly man was a cop. There had been an accident. Our car was involved. We had to go outside to inspect things.

We have to park on the street here and I guess some drunk guy missed the 5 cars before us, plowed into ours, and pushed it all the way across the street, a half a house down, and up onto the other sidewalk. Then, of course, he ran off. Somehow. Our car is in bad shape so I can only imagine how his looks. I thought the rear-end crunch wouldn't take much time to repair, but of course it's much worse than we realized. The hatch is jammed shut, neither back door opens, the left light doesn't stay in it's socket, we're leaking some kind of fluid, the bumper has completely fallen off, and the floor of the back is all popped up and broken. I'd guess our car is 3 inches shorter. The metal from the frame is scraping the wheels so we can't even drive to a repair shop. What a morning.

To make everything just a little nicer, I have a super high deductile on my insurance. There's not a lot of money to be made in the non-profit world, and I wanted to save a few coins by making my deductible really, really high. It's a gamble, I guess, and it obviously didn't pay off. So goodbye to some of that house downpayment savings...

The small bit of good news: I have a full bag of accident (taillight) plastic that I plan to turn into some kind of art piece. That's a pretty small silver lining, though.

Sorry to be a grouch. I just thought my day was going to be a lot different.