Today was supposed to be a good day. I took my writing exam, the last thing needed to complete my nursing application, and got it all turned in. In the evening I was going to take family names to the temple for baptisms with my sister Janessa and my Grandma and Grandpa Adams. It was in between those two really good things that I got myself into trouble.
I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to IKEA with Clint and Crystal in an attempt to buy these really cool vases for my sister as a graduation present. The IKEA website said the Draper store had the vases, and I took that as proof enough and proceeded with the trip. As it turns out, they had quit making the vases and had sent them to the "close-out" section just the week before. They had TONS just days before but by now had sold them all. I was pretty bummed.
And then we were driving home, sort of hurriedly, in rush hour traffic from a completely pointless, wasteful trip, and I just had to get into a car accident to make the trip even worse. Basically traffic went from 65 to 0 in a matter of seconds and I failed to realize that we weren't just slowing down, we were screaming to a halt. I rear-ended the car in front of me and then was rear-ended myself. Five cars in all were involved, but we were sort of two separate accidents because the fourth car in the mess has been able to stop in time, but he himself was rear-ended. No one was injured in the collision, thank heavens. The car that I hit had minimal damage--I think they were probably the only ones who didn't have to be towed. The front of my car was another story though. It was pretty smashed. The back looked mostly normal, but the rear hatch couldn't be opened. My airbags didn't deploy though so that's one good thing. The car that hit me though, a mustang, was in BAD shape. Their hood was all bent, their airbags had deployed, and it wouldn't even run. It had to be shoved by an incident management truck to the side of the road and, later, by a highway patrol car onto a tow truck. It's most certainly totaled.
My car is currently at a body shop and I'm waiting to hear if they're going to total it. The original damage estimate was six-thousand and something but they've found a bit more damage. If it isn't totaled, it's going to be dang close. I really hope they don't total it because I love my car and I definitely don't want to start over again on payments. Ugh. Poor Yaris.
If they do total my car, does anyone have any suggestions on what kind of car I should get? Right now I'm leaning towards just getting another Yaris...but I'm not entirely sure.
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