Spring Break 2013

Well, I made my annual pilgrimage to Wichita for Spring Break, and it was definitely not what I expected.  My little niece was super-duper sick, and so was my mom.  So I spent the week mostly indoors and we didn't get to do our normal zoo trip and other fun things.  Anyway, I did manage to get some snaps of my niece in the rare moments when she was feeling well, as well as some of beautiful sister.  Enjoy!

Here we go again...

So Tuesday after a long day of standardized testing at school, the hubs and I decided to go to a nearby town for dinner.  As we were waiting at the stoplight, we suddenly heard a BAM! and the car shook.  I looked at my husband and said, "Are you @*!&%*$! kidding me??!"(mostly because this would be the 2nd time I had been rear-ended in this same car!) and then looked behind and saw an older Chevy Blazer halfway wedged into the back end of my car and the ginormous cattle trailer in the lane next to us.

The husband was driving so he got out of the car as did the other people.  The driver of the other car ran off to talk to someone else in traffic but his wife started apologizing and said their brakes went out.   I took down their license plate number before we moved off to the side of the road, just in case.

We pulled over and I called the cops.  While I was on the phone, my husband comes back from talking to the people and says they wanted to know if we would follow them to a gas station because they were about out of gas.  Seriously?!  You hit my car and want me to run errands with you?!  No.  We did not go to the gas station.

The cops get there and do their thing and we find out that the people who hit us have no insurance. Winning!  So, that just makes me even madder than I already am.  They keep apologizing, but that was just making me even more pissed because they are also telling us they knew their brakes were bad and my husband said they had taped their brake lines with electrical tape, trying to keep the fluid in!  If we weren't there for them to run into, they could have ended up in the intersection getting killed or killing someone else!  They had NO business driving a car without insurance, let alone one they knew the brakes didn't work on!

Anyway, the police said they would be taking one of them to jail, so that made me feel slightly better.  My insurance rocks and I already have my car in the shop and a rental car!  So by April 19th I should have my car back.  Why is that taking so long? Well...they have to replace the bumper and rear tail light, and if they can't fix the side panel, they will have to replace that too. If the paint doesn't match well, I will have one patchwork looking car! Thanks, stupid morons.