Paying the karmic reaper

A few weeks ago, following my car accident, I found myself not purchasing insurance on my rental car and then having an "incident".

Well, today, I found myself in another rental car, and purchasing rental car insurance, though in the end it was not needed. I had to think long and hard, but I just knew that I had to restore balance to the karmic forces, and that if I had not purchased rental car insurance I would have simply been begging for another incident to occur.

So why was I renting another car? No, not another accident. But yes there were more Vue repairs needed, though not previous accident related.

On Saturday I took the Vue in for routine maintenance and asked that they check on a couple other things I was worried about. Sure enough my concerns were well founded and there was a few hundred dollars in repairs needed. Fortunately, I had previously purchased an extended warranty, so all but $90 (for "rotor grinding" -- not covered as it is "normal wear and tear") of that few hundred was covered. HOWEVER, the extended warranty company was closed on Saturday, so the dealership could not get authorization for the repairs. They needed to bring me back in on Monday, but agreed to rent me a car for the day because the repairs would take 5+ hours and I had many things to take care of I explained.


So here's the breakdown of the crazy Monday that justified a rental car:
- 7:45am departed home
- 7:50am dropped the kids off at school
- 8:00am arrived at doctor's office for appointment
- 8:30am dropped off prescription order
- 8:45am arrived at Saturn dealership to drop off Vue
- 9:15am drove away from Saturn in a rental car (Hyundai Accent)
- 9:35am arrived at Tinker AFB pass and ID to get a base car pass
- 9:55am arrived at pharmacy to pick up prescription
- 10:00am arrived at Shelby's school to pick her up for a doctor appointment
- 10:20am arrived at Shelby's doctor's office
- 10:30am spent several minutes calming a screaming/kicking Shelby down after she got a flu shot
- 11:00am arrived at a lunch place of Shelby's choosing (her treat for having to get a shot)
- 12:00pm dropped Shelby off at school, headed to work (finally)
- 4:50pm Saturn called, the Vue is fixed
- 5:00pm left work to get the Vue
- 5:20pm filled up the rental with gas -- I put 45 miles on that thing in just a few hours!
- 5:30pm turned in rental car (no damage!), picked up Vue
- 5:50pm picked up girls from school
- 6:15pm girls and I grabbed some dinner
- 7:15pm got a haircut while girls did homework
- 7:50pm stopped at the library to get research material for Darby's science project
- 9:00pm left library as it was closing
- 9:10pm home at last


So, a slightly more hectic than usual Monday... very glad it's over.