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My poor wife hasn’t been having much luck with cars for the past 6 months or so. Last year her car was hit twice while she wasn’t even in it. Then she used my car for a few days and someone hit that car too, while she was at work. The damage was minor to her car but my whole door had to be replaced and repainted several times.

Then last week sometime she was at a stop sign just down the road from our house, and was hit by a big van that had stopped in front of her. The van started backing up, not seeing our car, and despite the honking horn and flashing lights, it backed into our car. Luckily there was no damage that I could see, other than maybe a little black mark around one of the headlights where the van’s spare tire rubbed against the white body of our Acura.

She was driving down to Georgia to take our dog Rye to her agility training class, and was hit by a 18 wheeler that decided to merge into her lane without signaling or even checking to see if anyone was in the lane. She was right next to the cab when he started moving over, but was boxed in by another car so she sped up to try to avoid the truck. But he moved over too fast and clipped the backend of the car. She fishtailed a little and swerved off the interstate onto the shoulder, luckily missing all the cars in the other 3 lanes of traffic. She thought the truck pulled over a little ways up the road, but then pulled back onto the road and kept going. She didn’t get a license number or anything.

Thankfully neither she or Rye was hurt seriously. She says her hip has been bothering her, which she will see the chiropractor about, but other than that she is fine. It could have been a lot worse so we are thankful all we got was a dented car.

The car still drives fine, it just has some body damage which you can see above. The estimate is over $3,000 to fix it. Which is freakin’ crazy. I just had the car refinanced 2 weeks ago, and that is exactly what the trade-in value for it was… So I could take that $3k and either fix one little dented body panel/bumper, or completely pay off my car. Hmmm…

So if there is a trucker reading this in a white cab that has the letters “CJ” in his company’s name that hit a white Acura Integra on I-24 last week, screw you buddy!

Pfft, Chiropractors are bull-oney.

That sucks man, sorry to hear that. At least she’s okay. :D

Derek refuses to tell the whole story about the car luck…

(End of Last years March)
Sunday I paid off my first car.

Monday I started a temp job nannying for a family. That morning the husband backed into my new saturn, parked in the parallel parking place outside their apartment. He ended up smashing in the front passenger side door and scratching up the paint. (which the husband promised he’d fix, being a part time mechanic, yet never did).

Tuesday the family’s next door neighbor’s teenage daughter did the exact same thing, backed into my car without looking, and scrapped up the back passangers door. (which she did call the police and her insurance covered to fix the neon green paint her car had scratched onto mine).

Wednesday I decided I’d better get the car insurance quick! So I put the new car on our policy.

Thursday I was less then 5 miles from our house at a 4 way stop light. Turned left and the guy in front of me decided he was turning right into the gas station only 3 feet after turning left at the main light. He never used his blinkers and I had a puppy in the car, while trying to get through those 5 second lights in time, and ended up rear ending the guy’s side bumper when he suddenly stopped to turn. The damage to my car was $1,400 alone, his was close to that amount as well. Small world, he was the boyfriend of a good friend of mine at work.

In the fall I nannied for a new family, only a few minutes from Derek’s work. We never fixed the front of the saturn, so it looked pretty bad, and unsafe in the eyes of the family I nannied for. So I switched cars with Derek. He took the saturn, with no AC I might add, and I took the nice little acura. Within the first week of working for that new family, their new neighbors backed into Derek’s parked acura, crushing in the drivers side door so bad you couldn’t even get the door opened or closed all the way and the window would no longer roll down. Eventually we got through the insurance mess and the neighbors state farm paid for the acura to get fixed that time.

That same fall while Derek drove the saturn, a storm hit when he was at work. By the time he walked out to go home, he discovered a major tree limb had fallen on the back of the saturn, denting the trunk in a bit. (never did fix that).

Late fall I sold the saturn and bought a ‘95 jeep cherokee. It was wonderful to haul the dogs in, had AC, hadn’t been in any accidents, etc. But then it broke down only a month after purchasing it. We fixed the first problem (had to get a new part put in-don’t know what it was though), then the starter had to be replaced, then it broke down again. The last time it broke down (early November) I decided I’d just deal with fixing it later when we had the extra cash. It would break down again before I’d even pay off the mechanic for fixing it the time before! So since then, Derek and I have been sharing his acura.

Then just last Tuesday I was taking Rye, my dobie/border collie mix to CGC training when we were on our own street, at the stop sign, and a huge van in front of us, already stopped, decided to back up, right into us! I was honking like crazy while trying to get the gears from first to reverse, but wasn’t finding it in time before I felt the lurch of them backing into the front. I didn’t see any damage, although derek later found some. But I just let it go. Luckily I hadn’t reversed, there was a really nice honda behind me, which that would have been my fault for hitting them! Needless to say, Rye and I went ahead to class, and she got her CGC title.

The next day, Wednesday evening, Rye and I were going to her first day of beginners agility when that semi ran us off the road! Derek went into detail enough about that…but since then he’s been driving me everywhere, even just to the grocery store 2 miles down the road. I even jogged to work monday! Took me 45 mins but atleast I didn’t have to drive!

That is by far the worst streak of luck I’ve ever heard of. Someone was watching over you during the semi-meets-car accident.