So there's this story about an indian who gets injured and they say to his father "oh such bad luck" and the father says "maybe" and the story goes back and forth between good luck and bad luck with his son's life winding up being spared because he could not go to battle while injured and everyone else was killed in the
battle and so on. You get the picture. This morning, we had a terrible storm just as I was bringing Olivia
to school. The sky went black in a matter of minutes and at 8 am, it looked like midnight outside.
When I came home, I decided to park my car close to the walkway that leads to my back door
instead of down by the garage as it was raining so bad and there was plenty of lightning too.
When I got into the car this afternoon to go pick Olivia up, I saw that a large branch had fallen on the driveway
right where my car would have been parked. I thought "Whew, wasn't that a stroke of good luck.
Maybe it was divine intervention!" As I drove home, I told Olivia about it but just
as I pulled down the driveway, I saw where that branch made its original landing before I guess
it tumbled onto the driveway. It was Tim's pick-up truck. Uh-oh. The windshield is shattered,
the chrome moulding is shot. So much for that good luck. But there's always 2 ways to look at
things. His truck is older, doesn't get used as much, already had a chip in the windshield anyway
(as does my car) and at least no one was in it at the time. It also seems to have missed the whole hood that he just had painted a few years ago. He still won't be happy. He always hated that tree too. I can hear the chainsaws now. Just hope this doesn't turn into an excuse to finally buy a new truck and cost me 30,ooo clams. I'm gonna have to put the ol' kibash on that deal.
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You wet blanket!!!! Actually I do apprecaite the comment and I am getting tested for it as well. There are no other food or drink issues I have. It definitely isn't an ALDH2 issue and I only drink beer or wine. I'll be curious to see what the next round of testing turns up.
Windshields are not that expensive... and maybe your comprehensive has a lower deductible than collision? At any rate... glad the truck was empty at the time! (It was, wasn't it?)
YUP! Thank heavens. And thank heaven for brothers-in-law in the automotive bus. The glass guys are here now installing the new one(at my brother-in-law's price, he owns
an auto-body shop) and the other parts are on order from Bro-in-law
#2 who works for a Ford dealership.
Good to have connections and glad
my car wasn't next to it or she'd be in the body shop. Would have given me a good excuse to get that flame job on my "mommy-van" though. I'm a non-conformist doncha know. :o)
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