As life goes you never know what the day will hold. Yesterday, Chris came out to his car parked carefully in the parking garage at his work to find this. There was a note and the lady said that she had "no idea what happened!" "I was backing up and my car just went out of control!" The damage is so bad that he can't open the back passenger doors or the trunk and the frame is all smooshed. He took the metro home last night which was interesting. I was able to find someone to come and be at the house while I picked him up at the Norwalk station. This morning we all got up bright and early to be out of the house at 7:3o to get him to work for a 9:30 appointment. After dropping him off at work Anders and I had a nice breakfast at "Jinky's Cafe" which is right around the corner from the studio. The traffic wasn't bad at all and it was an uneventful drive but hopefully tomorrow there will be a replacement rental car for Chris to drive!
We are hoping that there will be a positive outcome and that the insurance will really take care of us. As you can see, Chris has a hybrid and it's pretty much essential for his commute. Gas is so expensive that it would be a very uncomfortable price to pay to drive a regular car. He gets about 50 miles to the gallon and it really makes a big difference right now.
So, I'll update about this again when things are somewhat resolved. In the meantime we are getting ready to have Chris' dad here over the weekend and we are really looking forward to that. Two weeks after that Chris' mom comes for a week and Anders birthday party will be on the 21st. Then the next weekend I get to escape for a couple of days to Palm Springs for an annual girls getaway. So, it's a busy month!
5 comments:
Oh, what a bummer! The worst part about these things is what a HASSLE it all becomes! I guess you can just take the opportunity to spend time in Santa Monica and enjoying a different kind of day then you'd usually have! I remember eating breakfast at Jinky's-- yum!
Oh rats! What a hassle. Don't you just hate it when someone else's mistake becomes YOUR problem??
aunt G
Did the hitter leave insurance information? Have you spoken with her insurance yet? Insist that the other person's insurance pays for the reduced value to your car, in addition to repairing it. The car will have a reduced value after having been in an accident, and you should be compensated for that. They will need to provide payment for a comparable rental car, and that means something that gets good gas milage. If they cannot supply that, then they also need to compensate for the difference in gasoline cost.
Yes, we did get all of the insurance info and Chris is working it out as I write this. So far so good!
Sorry to hear about the accident/hit and run. We're actually looking at getting a hybrid. What kind do you have?
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