Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Most People Just Trade in Their Cars...

It's true, right? Most people just trade in their cars. It's too expensive to keep, there's too much maintenance needed, you just don't need the extra car, you need a bigger/smaller car...take your pick. There are many reasons to trade in your car. We never seem to have gotten that MEMO about trading in our car. We just smash them up and hope it's the other guy's fault so we can replace them. (Who was in charge of sending out that MEMO????) Here's our history:

In 2004, Rick hit a cow on the dark highway coming home from river rafting the Selway. Luckily, the rancher was at fault and we were able to replace the car:
In 2007, Whitney was driving by the high school when a lady pulled out in front of her and Whitney hit her. The other lady was at fault so we replaced that car:
In 2009 (two days ago), Kendall was driving down Canal when she rear-ended a lady. Unfortunately, our luck ran out this time and it was all Kendall's fault. The car was totaled:Without c/c coverage, we're out a car. Now we have three drivers (four in May) who will need to share one car. Aaron will actually take that car with him when he goes to BYU-I in April, so we will have no car for those drivers. The good news is that experience in life makes you stronger and teaches good lessons. Maybe paying for their own cars will help my kids be even more responsible when they drive. Time to tune up the bicycles.

5 comments:

Shelli said...

Wow, from the looks of it, she's lucky she didn't get hurt. Poor girl. I love all your pictures, those are hilarious. Way to take it in stride! :)

Scott said...

Gives a whole new meaning to Go BIG OR GO HOME ! Im glad she is okay. It could have been worse.

Beth said...

Wow, I am so glad Kendall didn't get hurt. The car looks pretty bad! I'm glad she was wearing her seatbelt!! Otherwise she'd probably look like Jenn. Isn't life grand?

Trev said...

Take all 3 cars and cut em up to make one car! Ok, so that wouldn't work, would it. On my mission they would just hook a horse or mule up to the car and get around that way (no joke!)

Glad she's ok! She'll definitely be more careful out there. It's so easy to lose concentration for a second or 2 and then Bam! I almost got run off the road today by someone not paying attention. Last second they hit the brakes and nearly rolled their car trying to avoid hitting me. Good thing I have seat covers on there! :)

Tami said...

Bummer! I am glad that in all of those accidents that everyone has been okay! This same thing happened to Adam when he was a teenager. His parents saved their beater for Adam and his twin brother for when they turned 16. Shortly after his twin totaled the car and they were stuck without a car and taking a minivan on dates for the rest of HS.