On the 26th Day of Xmas, My True Love Gave To Me

Munk,
Glad to hear that your family came out of the crash with no human damage! Hopefully the truck will be taken care of by the ins. co. :)
 
It is much easier to fix cars than people, and cars are much easier to replace when they wear out or break. Everyone has accidents, but you are lucky that no one was seriously hurt.

My wife thinks that I am a lousy driver, but she has been stuck in ice on more than one occasion. Once, she went off into a ditch near our house.

Ice can be really difficult, and I have had some close calls. You can't stop on the stuff too quickly, and steering is a bear. That is no problem where I live, since there are few curves, few hills, and everything is flat in flatland.

I don't wonder if I'll have another accident, but rather when. I just hope that no one gets hurt when it happens. If I don't botch it, it is certain that someone else will - eventually. People make mistakes.
 
Glad no one was hurt -- shaken up, for sure. Vehicles, well, they don't last all that long under the best of conditions, so try not to worry about it.

I've had two similar situations -- once when my wife hit a patch of black ice on a long downhill on the Mass Pike. The car (a hatchback) was totalled. Afterwards, we found her glasses underneath the spare tire. The state later billed the insurance company for replacing the guard rail she hit.

Fast forward about 10 years and I was driving home from New Hampshire in a raging blizzard in my rear-wheel drive Mazda 929. I drove extra carefully, but still didn't get 5 miles (out of a 52-mile commute) before doing a 360 and having the car attempt to back itself into the lake alongside the road. This being cheap NH, the guard rails were telephone pole sections connected by wire cable. Luckily, the cable held. The car was sort of drivable (I stayed overnight with a co-worker and got home the next day, after the storm was over), but soon got replaced by a front-driver.

(Now that I recall, that was a pretty darn dangerous commute for me -- I worked up there for four years, and had three major accidents. In addition to the one mentioned above, I fell asleep at the wheel one morning and woke up in time to choose between hitting a guard rail and a stone bridge abutment. I was hell on guard rails during that period. Another time, driving home about 10pm one night the car went BANG as something hit it -- turned out a deer was running across the road, hit my left front fender, took out the rear view mirror, and left some hair behind in the rear door handle. No other sign of the deer, though. And I never saw it at all, just felt the impact!)

Anyway, glad your family is still OK, Munk. Hang in there buddy.

-- Russ
 
Hell on guard rails.

Well, it's 7 thou to fix the truck and it's worth maybe 8, and we owe six. They want to find a used bed to put on it.

I don't care. I wouldn't mind driving a blue front with a red bed if the Insurance boys would cut us a check for a couple thousand.

When my wife brought the truck to the body shop today the manager informed her a car outside of --- ----- rolled and everyone was killed.



munk
 
Yikes, sounds like a crappy situation no matter how you look at it, munk. I hope you can find a used bed. Maybe you can contact that show, "Pimp My Ride." ;)
 
Josh Feltman said:
Yikes, sounds like a crappy situation no matter how you look at it, munk. I hope you can find a used bed. Maybe you can contact that show, "Pimp My Ride." ;)
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Yea or "OVERHAULIN!" That show rocks! I can't get over how some of the people that watch that show regularly get fooled when it's their turn to be Overhauled! :rolleyes: :D
 
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