6/9/22 It's A Wonder We Don't Have More Car Accidents?

     Just about every day, most of us have a near miss with another vehicle while out driving, taking care of life.  Thankfully, we are paying enough attention to avoid the collision, but sometimes, with our best efforts, they still happen.  Girlie was out at Walmart, buying bins to store her possessions because like all apartment dwellers, there is always a move coming up.  Anyways, as she was reversing out of her parking spot, she said an oncoming car was not paying attention and just rammed her sideways.  She was hit so hard the airbags on the passenger side windows deployed.  Although, the ones on the driver's side did not, I think she might have actually been tossed against the door for a second, as she said she is sore from her shoulder to her elbow all of a sudden.

    She described the people, although she did not want to be mean, she said they were hillbilly as they come.  Missing teeth, ratty clothes, overbearing woman complaining that the car was a rental because her own car was in the shop as she had just been involved in another car accident.  That tells me that woman should not be driving at all.  I did not understand the story as she told me, but they did not hit and run, but there was a lot of "We'll be right back."  They went off to get gas first, then they left to get drinks or something.  Eventually, her BF showed up and he called the cops a second time, the first time they said they could not respond because of Defund the Police, they are short staffed.  The BF called because he thought they would leave without exchanging information, they took forever to produce the insurance papers.

    Today, she just found out her car is a total loss.  From the pictures I was thinking as much, seeing that the frame was bent in multiple places.  She was told the repairs would cost $20,000 and the car would not be as good, it is only worth $18,000 and she owes $14,000.  I don't know how those numbers work, but she said she had just made the 3-year mark owning this car and was wondering about replacing the tires, as they were getting old.  Guess that is one less thing to worry about, when they just trash the whole car.

    She is currently not working a full-time job and she is down to her last semester from graduating from Texas State, so she says her credit is not good, which will make it harder to qualify for a decent car.  But she needs something good to drive, her internship is supposed to be in Indiana, which she was leaving to in August.  I know it will all work itself out, but it just seems like a huge pain in the ass when things like this happen.