Literally.

Poor car, it’s had a rough year. And again, it wasn’t my fault — I still maintain 11 years and 11 months of driving accident-free! Should also mention that aside from someone’s pride, no one was hurt. That’s all the detail I will go into, except to point out something kind of kooky: After the accident and while I was dealing with insurance and trying to sort the auto body shop and car rental, I had a feeling it was about this time last year when I got rear-ended and had to go through the same deal — and I was right! It happened almost a year to the day of my being rear-ended last year. (One of the perks to having a blog is that you can look up dates of certain events as well as what you were doing last year at this time, or two, three, and even four years ago — kind of fun! Or in the case of my car, depressing.)


If you look closely, you can see the scratch is quite deep, so while I wasn’t too surprised when the shop contacted me yesterday to say I need new door frames — as in plural — I was startled by the cost. Not sure why that surprised me, though. Car’s are expensive! So far, the damage is amounting to $5,200! Ouch. Thankfully, I’ve got good insurance!