The damage

The car accident situation is getting more frustrating by the minute. I just got off the phone with the body shop and, would you believe it, there was about $4,000 in damage. They say all of the needed parts are on order, but that there isn't a lot they can do without the parts. Their estimated completion date?  11 October.

So let's do the math, shall we? I got the rental car 23 September. Keeping the rental until 11 October means that I'll have it 19 days. At $27.99 per day, that comes to a grand total of $531.81, probably not including applicable taxes, and I don't even want to think about the fuel costs of that gas guzzler I'm driving. Have I mentioned that I don't have rental car coverage?  Man, that has to be one of my all-time stupidest decisions.  (well maybe... add up extra premium cost over the course of my sixteen years of driving... which is more, the premiums or the rental?)

The body shop also said there was some slight frame damage, and that they would at least try to get the vehicle onto their frame machine while they were waiting for parts. This is all sounding increasingly unpleasant to my ears.

How's this for bad timing... my father had an extra car until the week before my accident. He's fixing up an old El Camino and giving his pick-up truck to my little brother that is about to turn sixteen. My little brother won't have his license probably until November, so I could have used the pick-up while my dad drove the El Camino. However, my dad just put the El Camino into the shop last week for a new paint job. It will be there a couple weeks. Figures, huh?