My car is totaled.
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My youngest boy, who is 20, finally decided to go for his driver's license.
So he takes the test in our car (my wife and I's only car) and then he was supposed to drop Momma off and take the car home.
Well, he decides to go to the beach and making a corner to the beach access, the car slid and smashed into a guardrail posts. Both airbags deploy and my son and his girlfriend came out a little bruised, but alright.
But our only transportation (with exception of my Harley) is toast. And while we have gap insurance and full coverage, it will pay the car off completely and maybe give us a couple grand, but with a foreclosure and financial problems, because of pay cuts and all, there is no way we'll be able to buy another car like it.
So now we wait for the insurance company to tell us what they will do and in the meantime, I have to figure out something for transportation. I hate this.
So he takes the test in our car (my wife and I's only car) and then he was supposed to drop Momma off and take the car home.
Well, he decides to go to the beach and making a corner to the beach access, the car slid and smashed into a guardrail posts. Both airbags deploy and my son and his girlfriend came out a little bruised, but alright.
But our only transportation (with exception of my Harley) is toast. And while we have gap insurance and full coverage, it will pay the car off completely and maybe give us a couple grand, but with a foreclosure and financial problems, because of pay cuts and all, there is no way we'll be able to buy another car like it.
So now we wait for the insurance company to tell us what they will do and in the meantime, I have to figure out something for transportation. I hate this.
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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The stories I could tell about my 2 "brilliant" boys. Any parent would cringe.
And every lesson they are supposed to learn, seems to make them more stupid.
The only thing I can think of is that somewhere along the way, I really pissed off someone and I'm paying for it several lifetimes over.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
I don't owe anything on the manufactured home.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
However, I think Amos is right. Your son has impacted your life in a very bad way, and the only way to deal with it is to find a way for him to learn (the hard way) by paying for his mistake, so that you can be "made whole". That's the win-win solution. You get reliable transportation, and he learns that his decisions have real consequences.
I am sorry to hear about any brothers trouble on here. Sounds like you have many things going wrong at the same time. I hope you just don't let it all weigh you down. Easier said then done and I realize that. Been through hell and back and as I look back I am amazed of what I made it through and so glad I never threw in the towel. If you need to vent let us have it.
A friend of mine, a good ol' country boy, had a saying...."when they turn 18 it's time to break their dinner plate". I think it's quite apropos here......
We went to Portland yesterday and got another car, one year newer and $200 less per month payments.
Same color and all. Only thing is that it doesn't have a sunroof, while our old one did.
But as long as Momma is ok with it, I am.
Now we wait for the insurance company to go through all their stuff and get everything taken care of.
We may even buy back our old one and strip it for spare parts for the newer one. LOL!
The old one had brand new tires on it, at $300/tire, that adds up.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.