:: Brinna's ::

:: Friday, January 16, 2004 ::

Hullo,
how's it? I'm waiting until it's time to pick my honey up from work. Then we're picking up the car. It's 11:11 and I pick him up at noon. If you're wondering how, it's called Chris Schofield and his Chevy Corsica. Beat up old thing, that Corsica. And he's oddly protective of it. Especially since I got in a wreck in it. But the real odd part is, the wreck wasn't my fault. Some old lady turning left out of a shopping center slammed straight into my left side. Thank the Lord I wasn't hurt. It was actually sort of funny.

To really understand you have to get the full story. My husband's first friend, Zach (I can't say best friend cause they're all best, but he's the closest I think) has a Kia Sephia. Pieces of crap, that's what they are. It's an '00 or '01, fairly recent make. But it's falling apart (the 100k+ miles on it doesn't help), and it died and was put into the shop on the 8th of December. So we were short a car. Not too big a deal, there's still the Echo and Corsica. Until 2 days later. Come the 10th of December my husband leaves to pick up Zach from work in the Echo, but doesn't make it very far. Tries to turn left out of the apartment complex, only to find there was an Olds (or something) going straight hiding behind that huge SUV turning right. Bye bye Echo. *sniff* Well, we're down to the Corsica until the Sephia's out of the shop. Time passes, til the 12th of December. I run to Walmart in Chris's car for toilet paper (a true essential). And what should happen but I get basically t-boned on a busy Friday afternoon. The only consolation is, Chris's car still runs. But why the heck did all of our cars get pounded in a row like that?? (And we still don't have our insurance money, more than a full month later. Not that Christmas and New Year's vacation helped a bit. Rrrr.) Not only did Chris get his car pounded on one side (both doors and the rear fender dented), but a few days later he had a nearly identical incident on the other side of his car. Some old guy pulled out a gas station into him. Chris swerved into the other lane and everything, and still got mauled. Hopefully our Mirage stays around awhile...

:: Brinna 9:16 AM [+] ::
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