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...well...hopefully you like lemons.
Last week. Monday, a holiday, pup got snake-bit by the pygmy rattler. The upside? Well, for the vet, anyway, he doesn't have to worry so much about putting that next kid thru college. Of course, the pup seems to have made a full recovery, too, and that's great news. But it was a REALLY expensive recovery.
Friday. Wife is in TX visiting kids for her 2nd oldest son's birthday. She took our truck loaded with all sorts of camping crap because they're gonna stay at Brownwood Lake for the weekend. She's on the highway, waiting to turn left and...BAM! She's hit from behind by some young girl at about 55 mph. Luckily the girl pulled her head out just in time to swerve and hit our truck on the right side 1/3 of the back of the truck. Totally demolished the bed, pushed it into the cab, ripped the right rear tire and wheel off, pulled the right side of the axle off the frame, etc. Her daughter was in the truck with her. No apparent serious injury to anyone, thank goodness.
When the Trooper gave the young girl a ticket she freaked out and was screaming, "But I didn't do anything!".
I'm thinking it's like 50/50 on whether the truck can be repaired (2015 GMC with 130K+ miles). I'm praying it's totaled for the simple fact I can't afford to be without a truck for that long and I don't really want a nearly 10 year old truck repaired like that. But, who knows? State Farm (girl's insurance) was pretty helpful. They said they'll hook my wife up with a rental pickup, pay any medical bills, etc. And luckily I had the truck towed to a body shop that's a State Farm preferred facility so they can do the preliminary estimate without a State Farm adjuster going out there.
And then there's the whole having to find a newsed truck that we can afford...because we won't likely get nearly enough to replace our old truck. Looking around, even used truck prices are just stupid. But we have to have a truck. I actually saw some new trucks with stickers well over $100k. Used trucks in an affordable range all seem to have between 150 and 200 thousand miles on them.
Wife and step-daughter going to the doc to get checked over tomorrow. They both are sore and achy and wife's had a headache since the night of the accident. Until she gets the rental she has no way of getting home with all the stuff she took.
Mostly just venting after spending nearly the entire day on the phone with 2 different insurance companies. But, everyone's OK and that's what's important.
Last week. Monday, a holiday, pup got snake-bit by the pygmy rattler. The upside? Well, for the vet, anyway, he doesn't have to worry so much about putting that next kid thru college. Of course, the pup seems to have made a full recovery, too, and that's great news. But it was a REALLY expensive recovery.
Friday. Wife is in TX visiting kids for her 2nd oldest son's birthday. She took our truck loaded with all sorts of camping crap because they're gonna stay at Brownwood Lake for the weekend. She's on the highway, waiting to turn left and...BAM! She's hit from behind by some young girl at about 55 mph. Luckily the girl pulled her head out just in time to swerve and hit our truck on the right side 1/3 of the back of the truck. Totally demolished the bed, pushed it into the cab, ripped the right rear tire and wheel off, pulled the right side of the axle off the frame, etc. Her daughter was in the truck with her. No apparent serious injury to anyone, thank goodness.
When the Trooper gave the young girl a ticket she freaked out and was screaming, "But I didn't do anything!".
I'm thinking it's like 50/50 on whether the truck can be repaired (2015 GMC with 130K+ miles). I'm praying it's totaled for the simple fact I can't afford to be without a truck for that long and I don't really want a nearly 10 year old truck repaired like that. But, who knows? State Farm (girl's insurance) was pretty helpful. They said they'll hook my wife up with a rental pickup, pay any medical bills, etc. And luckily I had the truck towed to a body shop that's a State Farm preferred facility so they can do the preliminary estimate without a State Farm adjuster going out there.
And then there's the whole having to find a newsed truck that we can afford...because we won't likely get nearly enough to replace our old truck. Looking around, even used truck prices are just stupid. But we have to have a truck. I actually saw some new trucks with stickers well over $100k. Used trucks in an affordable range all seem to have between 150 and 200 thousand miles on them.
Wife and step-daughter going to the doc to get checked over tomorrow. They both are sore and achy and wife's had a headache since the night of the accident. Until she gets the rental she has no way of getting home with all the stuff she took.
Mostly just venting after spending nearly the entire day on the phone with 2 different insurance companies. But, everyone's OK and that's what's important.
