I was just going along my business of a sunday afternoon errand run to prepare for the upcoming week, heading straight in a green light when a minicooper tried cut in front of me to take a left turn. I saw she was going to try to cut me off just a little too late. I slammed on my brakes to avoid impact, but to no avail we hit and I spun her around next to me. First time I've ever had an airbag go off. Both drivers were ok. We were lucky to escape injury in a head on collision. The young women was out for a cup of coffee. Not sure why she would cut someone off for a cup of coffee, but she was very apologetic. I would have been out of control if my kids were in the car, but I was surprisingly cool, just happy that nobody was taken away in an ambulance. It hadn't sunk in that my paid off honda minivan got destroyed. I could have had it another 5 years as it was well taken care of with only 70k miles on it. You got to love being car payment free. In fact Chuck's truck was paid off too. We were looking to replace his suburban within the year as it was on it's last leg. Now we were looking at two car payments.
The impact bent the entire frame and the none of the doors closed properly. The dash and steering column was pushed in. The design of it did protect me.
Both cars were not drivable and towed away.
Zac wanted to know what was going to happen to the injured car. I told him the insurance company would take it to sell parts off of it to a salvege company.
My car was totalled and I was scratching my head about what to replace it with. I was done with the minivan phase of life, but still needed a roomy vehicle. Chuck and I have no compatibility with car choice, but we still need to find a happy medium. Having to make a decision quick, I did choose the Mazda cx-9. I got a great deal on it and I've been happy with my choice.....other than the car payment that we now have.
Here is my new 2010 loaded cx-9. His name is buzz and we zoom zoom.
See his smile? If I'm going to be stuck with a car payment, I might as well enjoy the purchase.
A few weeks later, we traded in the Suburban (so long guzzler, woohoo! I hated that vehicle) for a sipper, A toyota hybrid highlander (much better). Chuckie isn't quite as happy with his 'new' car as I am with mine, but he went along with it just to shut me up and now is slowly adjusting to a smaller truck. He still looks at the big Tahoe's and other SUVs saying he wants to go back to a big truck, and I say, NEVER again. At least we can let the car arguement rest for now, and there's no arguing that two car payments suck!
The impact bent the entire frame and the none of the doors closed properly. The dash and steering column was pushed in. The design of it did protect me.
Both cars were not drivable and towed away.
Zac wanted to know what was going to happen to the injured car. I told him the insurance company would take it to sell parts off of it to a salvege company. 
My car was totalled and I was scratching my head about what to replace it with. I was done with the minivan phase of life, but still needed a roomy vehicle. Chuck and I have no compatibility with car choice, but we still need to find a happy medium. Having to make a decision quick, I did choose the Mazda cx-9. I got a great deal on it and I've been happy with my choice.....other than the car payment that we now have.
Here is my new 2010 loaded cx-9. His name is buzz and we zoom zoom.
See his smile? If I'm going to be stuck with a car payment, I might as well enjoy the purchase.
A few weeks later, we traded in the Suburban (so long guzzler, woohoo! I hated that vehicle) for a sipper, A toyota hybrid highlander (much better). Chuckie isn't quite as happy with his 'new' car as I am with mine, but he went along with it just to shut me up and now is slowly adjusting to a smaller truck. He still looks at the big Tahoe's and other SUVs saying he wants to go back to a big truck, and I say, NEVER again. At least we can let the car arguement rest for now, and there's no arguing that two car payments suck!
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