Cue Buck Owens and Roy Rogers
12/15/2005 04:07 a.m.
"If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...."

Saturday evening I wrecked my car... I hit a concrete filled steel pole in a parking lot. It was in my blind spot as I made the double turn to enter the parking lot.

If I'd just hit it with my front bumper, I'd have bounced right off... I have a Saturn, it's virtual "Rubbermaid". My son has beat on it with a baseball bat and there was no damage.

Unfortuneately, I didn't hit the bumper, I hit the front driver's side tire... and have damaged the suspension.

I haven't gotten a quote yet, but I've been told that it will be a minimum of $1200. Yeah, right.... my car is paid for, it happened on private property, no other vehicle was involved, and of course the steel pole doesn't even have a scratch, so.. 1) I only have liability, it won't pay on this, and I'm not about to report it (Duh!) 2) My father has the same year model Saturn, only the luxury model (leather seats, electric locks/windows and a sun roof) but it needs a new transmission... so... I'll have my transmission put on his car, and scrap mine.

But first I have to pay the $300 tow fee ($150 to pick it up and take it to a storage lot over night, $150 to transfer it from the storage lot to the body shop that is giving the estimate!) I won't use that tow company again!


So my fiance is letting me use his truck. It has some bumps and scraps, and the driver's side door doesn't have a door handle on the inside, but I've solved that problem.

I accidentally locked the keys in the truck... in the ignition. Of course, my fiance is 4 hours away, working out of town.

He can't get hold of his dad to bring a spare key.

My friend's husband who is a wrecker driver, and who popped the locks on my car for me last week, can't help me because we had heavy rain today, which led to idiot driver's causing multiple accidents, and he had a line of cars to pick up.

I called the police department of my school district, but they don't have "lock out kits". Mark called some friends of his that own an auto and diesel shop. They came out, and after two of them tried for over an hour, they couldn't get the doors open. So they resorted to breaking a window. But the flashlight they had wouldn't shatter the wing window. The tire iron did... it also shattered the full-size door window.

So now there is glass on the inside of the truck, I have a shower curtain covering the window because it's still raining, and it's supposed to be cold for this area tomorrow. Oh yippee, driving to work in near freezing temps without driver's side windows.

Good News... my fiance isn't pissed at me... and his friend told me to bring the truck by the shop tomorrow and they'll replace the windows... it'll only cost about $25.

Roger (my fiance's friend) told me not to ever lock the truck again! haha..

Yep, the last 5 days have pretty well inhaled.

I am currently Dismayed
I am listening to the evening news