i thunk so

Monday night, on my homeward commute through Nowhere, Virginia, my car got rocked by a blowout. No problem, you say? Just throw on the spare and get on your way? Problem is, three weeks ago I had a flat from a random little triangular piece of sheet metal that I picked up somehow. The spare was already flat, too….that’s the point.

So I dropped $600 on a new set of 4 tires since 2 were flat and 2 were questionable already. Pirellis. Got new Michelins on Tuesday morning, but I missed a couple hours of work. No big deal, really, but it cost me a lot of cash.

Then last night — just three days later — I was on the same commute home when I ran over a deer that had just been hit by the car in front of me. So now the front end of my Audi is mangled.

I am supposed to visit friends in New Jersey this weekend, but I’m feeling a little shell-shocked about driving anywhere. I think I’ve had just about enough of my 1.5-hour-each-way commute every day. I’m looking forward to getting my new position negotiated and settled so I can just move closer to work already.

If there is a silver lining to all of this, it’s that my insurance company actually seems to give a crap — at least my local agent does. Nobody at the national call center is ever even available to answer the phone. I found out this morning that the damage will be covered under comprehensive coverage instead of collision. This means I will only have to pay $50 out-of-pocket instead of the $500 I would have had to pay under collision coverage.

Filed by JP at 12:12 pm under Personal Drama