OK, here's the history:
On our anniversary, my wife and I left our son with my parents and headed out of town for an evening, driving her 96 Ford Contour. Trip went fine (on the way there). The trip back was pretty uneventful, until we were 1 block from my parents' place. We were waiting for traffic to clear so we could make a left onto their street, around 10:30 PM, and a couple of kids in a light truck or SUV rear-ended us. Knocked out our rear passenger lights and crumpled the trunk, then they took off before we could get a license number or anything! Fortunately, they cracked their radiator something major, liquid was just pouring out from their grill. The next couple of weeks, my wife had a very sore arm, doctor said it was not serious, just some tight muscles from the impact.
Anyway, everything turned out pretty well, overall:
Her car only has a $250 deductible. My car's is $1000. Our tax return is more than enough to cover it.
Nobody was seriously injured.
Our baby was not in the car.
And, best of all, they told us 2-3 weeks for repair when we dropped it off last Friday. My wife got a call today saying it's ready.
I'm so excited. Her sister had a baby about 4 hours away and we are leaving tomorrow to go see them, and we'll have the car with cruise control back just in time!
And one of the best things, if you can understand it, is that I'm not bitter toward the kids who hit us. The first couple of days it was all I could think of. We followed their trail (the radiator fluid was easy to follow while it was fresh), and I had thoughts of physical and/or legal violence, but after a couple of days I realized that it was consuming me. We gave the cops and the community all the information we had, and I let it go. I figured, if anything was going to happen from that point, it would happen, and I did not need to worry about it. And, honestly, I feel a lot better about it.
On our anniversary, my wife and I left our son with my parents and headed out of town for an evening, driving her 96 Ford Contour. Trip went fine (on the way there). The trip back was pretty uneventful, until we were 1 block from my parents' place. We were waiting for traffic to clear so we could make a left onto their street, around 10:30 PM, and a couple of kids in a light truck or SUV rear-ended us. Knocked out our rear passenger lights and crumpled the trunk, then they took off before we could get a license number or anything! Fortunately, they cracked their radiator something major, liquid was just pouring out from their grill. The next couple of weeks, my wife had a very sore arm, doctor said it was not serious, just some tight muscles from the impact.
Anyway, everything turned out pretty well, overall:
Her car only has a $250 deductible. My car's is $1000. Our tax return is more than enough to cover it.
Nobody was seriously injured.
Our baby was not in the car.
And, best of all, they told us 2-3 weeks for repair when we dropped it off last Friday. My wife got a call today saying it's ready.
I'm so excited. Her sister had a baby about 4 hours away and we are leaving tomorrow to go see them, and we'll have the car with cruise control back just in time!And one of the best things, if you can understand it, is that I'm not bitter toward the kids who hit us. The first couple of days it was all I could think of. We followed their trail (the radiator fluid was easy to follow while it was fresh), and I had thoughts of physical and/or legal violence, but after a couple of days I realized that it was consuming me. We gave the cops and the community all the information we had, and I let it go. I figured, if anything was going to happen from that point, it would happen, and I did not need to worry about it. And, honestly, I feel a lot better about it.
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