Car Update

So back on November 12th, Kara posted a short blog on the fact that I had been rear ended. The damage done wasn't too bad as you can see from this picture here, however the dealings with Safeco Insurance have been less than Pleasurable.

I have been calling them everyday since November 16th because I wanted to try to get my car fixed as soon as possible. This lasted for 2 weeks where I'm sure I became a fixture within their call center. During this process I found out that the girl who hit me didn't even tell her parents who pay her insurance. Safeco did! I can only imagine what would happen if it was me pulling that on my parents.

Finally last week on Wednesday I got to put my car into the shop. An additional 700 miles have been put on the car since the accident. Then came the fun part...

Enterprise Rent-a-car: Why do they insist on Trying to give people PT Cruisers? At least the Assistant Manager was there to see my look of "Really?" when the car was first offered. This was after waiting an hour to be picked up from the Body Shop. Also this is not the first time I haven't been happy with Enterprise over the rental process, however even though Safeco is jerking me around, I was given a Pontiac G6



I don't know if you can see this close enough, but the car was filthy. It's one thing that it was raining when I picked up the car but lets take a little closer look...



I actually paid to have the car washed myself. I vowed "I'm not Chamillionare, so no Riding Dirty for me!" (It's ok to Laugh... Kara did)

So now it's still the waiting game to see when the car comes back. On a side note, it's a shame that Pontiac isn't making the car anymore, it's a pretty nice ride. I told Kara that I can't say I would be upset if the car came back Totalled. Then I can get more car for the same price. I guess we will see. Wish us luck!

Damn Really??? (This Weekend as a whole)

So I (Lin) am posting this today just to let everybody know that I wasn't killed or that I didn't kill anybody. Despite the title this has been a pretty good weekend. I'll take you back to Kara's last post though and fill in some blanks.

How did I know that Kara and I would be together for awhile?? She fell in love with my Nissan Altima I bought a month after we started dating. (She fell in love with me eventually too... I think ;-) ) so she always referred to it as "My (Kara's) Car" even though I was making payments. (Fellas, isn't that funny how that works?).

So Thursday night after getting out of work, I was heading by my apartment for my daily stop by. Those of you who have been by the apartment since Brent and I have been living together coming North on 75 know how bad the Roswell Rd exit on 120 can be backed up. Traffic was stopped way back on the hill at the exit ramp. I slammed on my breaks cause the person in front of me did the same thing. Then I heard tires screeching and being rear ended 3 times in the past 7 years said out loud "Damn... Really?" and sure enough BAM!!! "Our" car was pushed forward. Luckily I did not hit the car in front of me like with my first Altima and Elian Gonzales.

Marietta PD showed up and also informed me that I don't have the proper registration sticker on my Car (Thanks Cobb County)

This weekend was spent mostly with Kara's Family in North GA. Yesterday had us going to watch Paul's Soccer Game in the morning after doing a few errands. The afternoon was full of Fun and Football for the guys while the girls did their Anti Football thing. Apparently Neil and I aren't allowed to hang out anymore according to Kara and Alisha.

Today we find ourselves getting ready to head back to the Metro Atlanta area to spend time with my Mom who just had a back procedure done. Turns out she's going to have to go back again in December. All is well with her right now which is a blessing, but I know she's loopy which is always interesting.

I hope you all have have a great weekend.

Car Troubles

Thursday night around 8pm I get a BBM from Lin telling me that "My car" had got rear ended.

Apparently he was getting off at the exit for his apartment and came to stop at the red light at the bottom of the hill. However the person behind him decided it would be more fun to try and push thru all the cars waiting at the light (she must have been in a real hurry)

Thank goodness Lin was ok! "My car" wasn't hurt too bad but apparently her car was pretty banged up. It's a shame Lin wasn't driving the Focus. hahaha

Not sure what the extent of the damage is since the adjuster hasn't been out yet. Should know by the beginning of next week! We will keep you updated.