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Car situation
Jun. 18th, 2006 01:09 amThose few of you who read my lj but not ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nellorat's or supergee's might be unaware that nellorat ended up in an accident late last week (that is, June 8) in Templeton, the Mercury Sable sedan we were gifted by nigelpuggle's mommy. It took us a few days to get the insurance gears rolling, but we finally got Templeton to the body shop today. The fellow who helped us seemed almost completely not worried about the damage, and I'm now virtually certain that we shall have him back in good health in 5 to 10 business days, at minimal expense.
(The last fender-bender that nellorat was in, a decade or so ago, cost us more because we decided to handle it out-of-pocket. We have excellent insurance through USAA, the United Services Automobile Association. USAA is a non-profit organization which offers financial services, especially insurance, to members of the military and their families. USAA is not only cheaper and friendlier than commercial insurance services, most years we get a dividend check back from them for 5-10% of what we spent.)
Along the way, we discovered that Fred (Ferdinand, the 1990 Ford Taurus wagon that we got used in 1996 after I totaled Vincent the Buick in an ice storm on New Year's Eve Eve 1995) has given up the ghost. His radiator is cracked and repairs would cost far more than we're willing to spend to cover the very rare occasions when we need a third car. So, we're donating him to a non-profit organization which salvages cars and donates the proceeds to charity.
This does mean that we've dropped from three cars to one. Fortunately, we live in a part of the world and work in jobs where the three of us can, indeed, get along with one car among us for long periods, as long as Perseus doesn't come along and steal it to force us to reveal the whereabouts of the medusa.
nellorat's or supergee's might be unaware that nellorat ended up in an accident late last week (that is, June 8) in Templeton, the Mercury Sable sedan we were gifted by nigelpuggle's mommy. It took us a few days to get the insurance gears rolling, but we finally got Templeton to the body shop today. The fellow who helped us seemed almost completely not worried about the damage, and I'm now virtually certain that we shall have him back in good health in 5 to 10 business days, at minimal expense. (The last fender-bender that nellorat was in, a decade or so ago, cost us more because we decided to handle it out-of-pocket. We have excellent insurance through USAA, the United Services Automobile Association. USAA is a non-profit organization which offers financial services, especially insurance, to members of the military and their families. USAA is not only cheaper and friendlier than commercial insurance services, most years we get a dividend check back from them for 5-10% of what we spent.)
Along the way, we discovered that Fred (Ferdinand, the 1990 Ford Taurus wagon that we got used in 1996 after I totaled Vincent the Buick in an ice storm on New Year's Eve Eve 1995) has given up the ghost. His radiator is cracked and repairs would cost far more than we're willing to spend to cover the very rare occasions when we need a third car. So, we're donating him to a non-profit organization which salvages cars and donates the proceeds to charity.
This does mean that we've dropped from three cars to one. Fortunately, we live in a part of the world and work in jobs where the three of us can, indeed, get along with one car among us for long periods, as long as Perseus doesn't come along and steal it to force us to reveal the whereabouts of the medusa.
