It's hard to find the words to describe our day-after-Christmas fluke accident.
Jon was leaving the house to take Alyssa to the doctor to have her sledding-accident stitches removed from her head. Our street had recently been plowed by our inexperienced city snow plowers, leaving a bit of a snow bank in front of our driveway. Our Pilot had been handling our abnormally large quantities of snow beautifully, but for whatever reason, when it came in contact with the ice that morning, something went terribly wrong.
It seems that something in the undercarriage of the car got caught in the ice and pulled some (we have no idea which) parts of the car completely apart. The tension caused some metal-arm type broken parts (shows our total lack of car-part knowledge) to come breaking through the center console of the interior of the car, protuding into the driver's side. 
In a matter of seconds, the car was rendered completely undriveable. Just like that, we were without our main family vehicle.
We watched, stunned and saddened, as our car was hauled away.
It's been three days and we still have no word on the status of our car. We have no idea when we'll get it back.
We're frustrated and we can't believe this happened. But at least we're all healthy and safe.
And we had a great Christmas.
5 comments:
Oh, man that stinks! I am sorry to hear that happened. Knowing FULL well what it's like (three months to be exact) without the family car I feel your pain. I hope they return it very soon AND in good working order. That sounds like recall issue to me.
P.S. The reason you all of a sudden see more posts is because I back dated in order to get in some journaling. :)
I would have thought that automobiles would be exempt from the infamous Hatch Family Curse! This really is horrible! I hope your car is returned soon. Wish we lived closer so we could lend you Spencer's rarely used Camry.
Holy Cow! That is horrible. We hope everything is repaired and returned quickly. Keep us updated.
Totally stinks. So, so sorry. I hope it's fixed sooner than later.
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