Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Hubby had a minor car accident!

Amazingly he was not injured and our seven and half month old car was not harmed badly either, but being a retired deputy he dialed 911 when the guy who rear ended him while stopped at a light tried to pay him off begging him not to call the cops, which is a proper procedure to do, report it to law enforcement that is, either way you do that, we are a no fault state.
And as we all know that when people act more guilty than they should there is usually a reason. There sure was; it turns out this guy was driving without a license although he did have insurance. His license was suspended nine years ago due too many DUIs and so today he was taken off to jail!
Why does this seem to happen with us, our new pickup truck was hit while parked at our local park by another guy without a license and that was two cars ago. We were with the Explorer Scouts at a picnic table when we all saw him back into it!All of us ran towards him before he got away! I suppose that scared him enough to stop.
That truck was also hit while parked at the grocery, but then the woman who hit it called the police and felt awful and it was taken care of so perfectly. I kept looking to see if I perhaps was parked badly, but it was well within the lines, even the deputy noted that. They were waiting for me when I came out of Winn Dixie that time, back in the last century.
Our other new mini van back in 1987 was dinged badly by a shopping cart let go of in a Walmart parking lot in Ormond Beach by an employee it was full of heavy soil and other garden supplies!
All of these incidents were taken care of by the people's insurances including Walmart's.
This one is so minor but Hubby was stopped at the red arrow on route #41/Tamiami Trail, (named for the first route from Tampa to Miami, runs parallel to I75), waiting for it to turn green to make the left to the street that eventually takes him to our street. He had groceries in the car he had made our bi-monthly run to Publix for out out of everything, there were two hundred dollars worth (plus a surprise mini ice cream birthday cake for my tomorrow's birthday, he was upset he couldn't hide it in the outside freezer since I was trying to help so he could get back to the scene), when he was hit and after he touched base with the deputy who he knew vaguely from years ago the deputy took his info and said that he could drop off the groceries and come back, and so he did. Hubby was only about two blocks from home.
 The picture below has to be explained, it is our rear bumper, see not too bad, and that is Gus's Nyla bone showing that the clips were knocked out. He has already called the guys insurance but they are one of those 9-5 companies, unlike ours that is 24/7 in claims, hope they take care of it.






On that note of it could have been much worse, but thankfully wasn't so much relief, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!PS this fellow had alcohol on his breath and so I do believe it was for his and the rest of the communities benefit that he will be safe from himself and others.

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