Hello,
“Wow, it snowed last night,” Leroy said as he looked out the window, “I will try to shovel a little before we go to church so we do not drive over it.”
When I came out I commented, “This is more than an inch or two.” Leroy and I do not pay much attention to the weather forecasts so we are frequently surprised. Life is so exciting!
As is his habit, when Leroy came home from church he called, “Hello,” but then he added, “You had better come look at something.”
When he started back out the door I wondered, “Did you have an accident?”
“Yes,” he said, “on my way to the second church I hit a slippery patch, slid around and then hit a bridge abutment on the opposite side of the road. Lucky for me no one was coming.” The highway had not been plowed and this was at the bottom of a long hill followed by a curve. Leroy was going slowly enough that the airbags did not deploy and he was not even jarred so much.
As many of you may know the bumpers are mostly plastic so the Saturn does look quite broken up. Leroy was able to proceed because he was able to lift up and secure the bumper with a bungee cord in the emergency kit that I had once gotten for his Christmas gift. Almost as good as duck tape!
We are grateful that Leroy is fine and the car is not too badly damaged, but the sheriff’s deputy figured that it would probably cost about $2,500. Oh well such a small cost compared to loss of life or bodily injury.
Now we are trying to figure out how we will go to MN for our flight out of the country. We have three options if the car can not be repaired in time: we could take the bus if someone here would drive us the 30 minutes to the bus stop, we could drive the 1990 Toyota praying that it will be trouble free, or we could rent a car. With the Toyota it seems likely that it would be fine since it “runs good” as they say in the car ads, but would Brian and Jen want such an old dirty car sitting in their driveway for two weeks? We will see what happens. We are now glad that we still have two cars around since this does give us good local transportation.
Paula
“Wow, it snowed last night,” Leroy said as he looked out the window, “I will try to shovel a little before we go to church so we do not drive over it.”
When I came out I commented, “This is more than an inch or two.” Leroy and I do not pay much attention to the weather forecasts so we are frequently surprised. Life is so exciting!
As is his habit, when Leroy came home from church he called, “Hello,” but then he added, “You had better come look at something.”
When he started back out the door I wondered, “Did you have an accident?”
“Yes,” he said, “on my way to the second church I hit a slippery patch, slid around and then hit a bridge abutment on the opposite side of the road. Lucky for me no one was coming.” The highway had not been plowed and this was at the bottom of a long hill followed by a curve. Leroy was going slowly enough that the airbags did not deploy and he was not even jarred so much.
As many of you may know the bumpers are mostly plastic so the Saturn does look quite broken up. Leroy was able to proceed because he was able to lift up and secure the bumper with a bungee cord in the emergency kit that I had once gotten for his Christmas gift. Almost as good as duck tape!
We are grateful that Leroy is fine and the car is not too badly damaged, but the sheriff’s deputy figured that it would probably cost about $2,500. Oh well such a small cost compared to loss of life or bodily injury.
Now we are trying to figure out how we will go to MN for our flight out of the country. We have three options if the car can not be repaired in time: we could take the bus if someone here would drive us the 30 minutes to the bus stop, we could drive the 1990 Toyota praying that it will be trouble free, or we could rent a car. With the Toyota it seems likely that it would be fine since it “runs good” as they say in the car ads, but would Brian and Jen want such an old dirty car sitting in their driveway for two weeks? We will see what happens. We are now glad that we still have two cars around since this does give us good local transportation.
Paula
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