Scar!

Oh my heavens, I am so remiss in blogging. I have so much backed up blog fodder, it's going to take ... a great deal of restraint not to go any further with that metaphor.

Sorry about that. Anyway, the big news! A little over a week ago (2/5), as I was leaving work, I was in my first ever major car accident. I am, as most of the people who read this blog know, completely fine physically, but my beautiful six-month old Hyundai Sonata is, well, "worse for wear."

Synopsis: I was driving in the far right lane on Indianapolis Blvd. It was snowing. To my left was an Acura, to my right, a Shell station. And as we went along, the driver to my left decided it was time to buy cigarettes RIGHT NOW and turned into the Shell station, taking me along with him. Which had not been a destination on my itinerary, to say the least.

So a week later, having had a number of conversations with insurance companies, independent assessors and appraisers and the body shop recommended by the Hyundai dealership, the damages are looking like they will total somewhere between $4,000 - $6,000. There is denting all along the driver side, especially in the front and rear panels, a headlight is popped out and broken, a hubcap is cracked, and the driver's mirror was snapped off clean, which needless to say has made driving on the highway lately very anxiety inducing.

Should everything go according to plan, the insurance company and body shop will be in communication today and sort everything out that I might drop my car off tomorrow and pick up a rental for the interval. Meanwhile, 'Shark' (thus named by Daisy for his dorsal fin-like satellite radio antenna) has been rechristened 'Scar', and I am spending a lot of time looking over my shoulder.

And the moral of the story is, you should quit smoking. RIGHT NOW.