Busy hands are happy hands
I have a ton of stuff to do this week. There's the regular mow the lawn stuff. Then there's some stuff I need to do for my mom this week. There are weeds galore in the garden and those will be taken care of in the later course of the week. A hoe will make quick work of them.
Then there's the truck.
I took it to the body shop this morning and the damage from the incident last week totals up to about $3,000. That's only the half of it. For the rest of it, I had to call my insurance company.
In August of 2010 I ran over the front of a BMW. I never had the deductible to get my truck fixed but I kind of do now. I figured that if I was going to get part of it fixed, I might as well get the whole thing fixed and Farmer's doesn't have a time limit on repairing the claim, thankfully. It's just going to take a bit to get the claim re-opened. That's OK. I have time. All of the damage is on the passenger side and it'll be the second time I've had to have that side of the truck repaired. It got hit once in the same parking lot I hit the BMW in.
My truck is 14 years old now. In February, I will have owned it for fifteen years and it's still running strong. Ford builds great trucks. She's starting to show her age, though. The clear coat is coming off in places because Chevron has never been garaged. She doesn't fit in mine. That's OK, things happen, things get old, and someday when things settle down, I'll scrape the money together to have the rest of the truck repainted.
The thing is this, though. It's more busy work. And I'm grateful to have it.
Like I said, busy hands are happy hands.
Then there's the truck.
I took it to the body shop this morning and the damage from the incident last week totals up to about $3,000. That's only the half of it. For the rest of it, I had to call my insurance company.
In August of 2010 I ran over the front of a BMW. I never had the deductible to get my truck fixed but I kind of do now. I figured that if I was going to get part of it fixed, I might as well get the whole thing fixed and Farmer's doesn't have a time limit on repairing the claim, thankfully. It's just going to take a bit to get the claim re-opened. That's OK. I have time. All of the damage is on the passenger side and it'll be the second time I've had to have that side of the truck repaired. It got hit once in the same parking lot I hit the BMW in.
My truck is 14 years old now. In February, I will have owned it for fifteen years and it's still running strong. Ford builds great trucks. She's starting to show her age, though. The clear coat is coming off in places because Chevron has never been garaged. She doesn't fit in mine. That's OK, things happen, things get old, and someday when things settle down, I'll scrape the money together to have the rest of the truck repainted.
The thing is this, though. It's more busy work. And I'm grateful to have it.
Like I said, busy hands are happy hands.
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