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The Lord giveth...
Nov. 10th, 2007 10:20 pm...and the Lord taketh away.
Well, I had a pretty good day...up until the part when we were driving home from an impromptu get-together at a friend's house, and Erik ran over some large debris on the 210 freeway in the shape of some stupid plastic lawn furniture that some dumb-fuck hadn't tied down properly in the bed of his pickup truck. There wasn't much Erik could have done -- if he'd swerved he just would have hit another car, which would have resulted in even more property damage. So we get home and take a look at what the lawn chair from hell did to the front end of my Mercedes. Cracked the smaller of the passenger-side headlamps...completely took out the foglamp on that side...destroyed the lower fascia/ground effect thingy...Erik says it also put a dent in the actual fiberglass front end piece, but I didn't notice that. So now I get to waste my day off by taking my car to my mechanic to get an estimate on the damage and decide whether it's worth reporting to my insurance company or whether I'm just going to have to go completely out of pocket on this. Frankly, a lot of it I can ignore (like I ever actually use the fog lamps in the first place), but it pisses me off to no end that my poor innocent car could get abused like this just because some lackwit didn't know how to correctly strap down the load in his goddamn truck bed.
And I was in SUCH a good mood before all this happened....
Well, I had a pretty good day...up until the part when we were driving home from an impromptu get-together at a friend's house, and Erik ran over some large debris on the 210 freeway in the shape of some stupid plastic lawn furniture that some dumb-fuck hadn't tied down properly in the bed of his pickup truck. There wasn't much Erik could have done -- if he'd swerved he just would have hit another car, which would have resulted in even more property damage. So we get home and take a look at what the lawn chair from hell did to the front end of my Mercedes. Cracked the smaller of the passenger-side headlamps...completely took out the foglamp on that side...destroyed the lower fascia/ground effect thingy...Erik says it also put a dent in the actual fiberglass front end piece, but I didn't notice that. So now I get to waste my day off by taking my car to my mechanic to get an estimate on the damage and decide whether it's worth reporting to my insurance company or whether I'm just going to have to go completely out of pocket on this. Frankly, a lot of it I can ignore (like I ever actually use the fog lamps in the first place), but it pisses me off to no end that my poor innocent car could get abused like this just because some lackwit didn't know how to correctly strap down the load in his goddamn truck bed.
And I was in SUCH a good mood before all this happened....
