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The little car that just didn’t make it

‘They’ say that most accidents occur within a few miles from your home. In this case, ‘they’ were right. This time I called home to tell my wife to look out the front window.

It was 9:30 AM as I hopped in the little Geo Prism - 8 years old, 140K miles - it was not a healthy car. At last summer’s inpection Steve’s Auto Body said this would be it’s last year and for < $100 for a new set of tires I outfit the geo for it’s final year of operation…but the big question on everyone’s mind was, Would it last? I backed out of the driveway, tuned into WBUR and popped it into DRIVE. 10 yards, 20 yards…I saw a white SUV cut the corner onto my road and soon was bearing down on me. The small Geo didn’t place me far off the ground and soon all I could see was a large headlight heading for me as I tried to move out of the way. I was, too late.

No one was hurt due to the low speed but my car was a wreck. It wasn’t just the bashes along the drivers side, it was the front wheel bent at an odd angle. The car was a piece of junk before and now it was totaled junk. The SUV had fared better, sort of. A brand brand new Mercedes ML SUV had hit me and cracked and dented some pieces around the front wheel, plus a flat. It was a real disapointment for the driver - the Mercedes was to be the centerpiece at a celebration Friday night where the truck was to be officially presented to her. The truck didn’t have the same cool look with the skinny doughnut where the fat tire used to be.

Then again, she did hit me and would have been served better had she been looking where she was going.

Because of the wheel, the Geo had to be towed the 30 yards back to the driveway but soon the insurance company will come to collect it and surprisingly I’ll get a check for a car that just wasn’t worth much. I’ve decided I’m in no rush to get a replacement car. It’s back on the bike for me for a bit, except on those really really cold days…

by matt @ 11:34 pm. Filed under blog.

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