Why We Can’t Have Anything Nice
Jun 23rd, 2009 by Alex
My car — still unnamed — sustained her first injury today. I came out of the office and found a completely shattered window. Short of a hole smaller than a pencil eraser the glass was intact, just crystallized as safety glass is supposed to be. I was parked on the end of a row and I found a bit of mulch on my windshield. Otherwise the car was secure. My best guess is that one of the lawn mowers kicked up a pebble in the parking lot. No note was left, so I’ll never know for sure.
It was pretty clear that I wasn’t going to make it home without the glass shattering, so I had to push it in myself. It was the first time I’ve ever gotten to bust in a car window. With a police officer watching, no less. Not much of an upside, really.
Not even 1,200 miles on her.
Grr.
Sorry to hear that, man. I had a run-in with a lawnmower a few years ago, too. Insurance gonna cover it?
Johnny: Not a big enough thing for insurance to cover it. Now had it been the rear window (that costs almost $1200) that’d be a different story.
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