Bad Luck + Steel Bumpers...

Yesterday I was just minding my own business when I slowly, cautiously, backed out of my driveway. I hear mowing, so I slow down and look to the right.

Person mowing - don't hit him.

Look left, person mowing a few doors sown. Watch them. Continue to back up.

*Notice that I did not mention looking behind me. That was a mistake, yes, however... I live in a big circle, and short of the few passing cars of neighbors, nothing is ever in the middle of the circle. Yesterday, this just happened to be directly in the center.


Just waiting to kiss my car's rear end...
NOT against a curb, in the CENTER of the circle. Who does that?!?!

So, + my
=

OUCH!!
After I got my couple thousand $$ estimate, I did this
and

Although it did not make me feel any better at all.

The worse kind of accident is when you're at fault. When you can't blame any one but yourself. When it is not a quick fix. Especially when is it not a quick, cheap, fix.

Ugh.
E took me to dinner and I ate every bit of this. I felt a little better after tater tots and good company.

Why is that greasy delicious food taste so good, yet is so terrible for you?

So my day of leisure (my summer is coming to an end shortly) has turned into dealing with this incident of pure bad luck and poor judgment (on my part and the driver of the truck with steel bumpers in the middle of the circle. Again, who does that?).

On the plus side:
- I have time to handle this without interrupting work
- There was not an inch of damage done to the truck
- There was no one in the truck
... that's really it.. but I'm trying to be positive.

Hope your day is better than mine - and beware of steel bumpers because according to the parts tech at Toyota "they crush anything in their way" see above picture.