Tuesday November 23, 2010

 

 

Nate & Deb’s 2010 Car Saga

March to November 2010

 

 

I took this picture on March 31, shortly after our grandson Nate bought his first car. 

 

 

This is what it looked like on April 16. He had been going a bit too fast  on a back country road (on the way home from school), got off the edge of the road, and flipped it on its roof. We praise the Lord that he was not seriously hurt. His right hand and arm had some serious road burn because he had the sun roof open.

 

The injured hand did work out to his advantage the next day when he needed the help of a cute friend to cut his meat at a wedding reception. (I forget who took this photo, or I would acknowledge the photographer.)

 

After several months of driving his dad’s old pickup truck, he bought another car in late August. Then on October 17 (while driving the speed limit ) a young woman pulled away from a stop sign right into the path of his car. He did not have a stop sign.

 

 

Consequently this was his second totaled car of the year. He had a few minor bruises – and the woman’s insurance paid the replacement value of the car.

 

 

This was the scene the next day (Monday) when our daughter Deb was rear-ended in a construction site. The really sad thing for Deb was that she had just gotten her car back from a body shop on Friday. She and Roy had been rear-ended a few weeks earlier (in stopped traffic on I-95) when driving home from the Baltimore Airport. Now this car was also totaled.

 

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Back to Nathan.

On October 26 he bought another car – one he really liked – and had it only ten days when someone backed into it in our church parking lot.

 

 

He had it scheduled to be repaired at an autobody shop when…

 

 

Can you guess what totaled the car this time?

 

 

Nate had just left our house on Sunday evening November 14, and traveled about half a mile when this nice eight-point jumped off a bank onto the hood of his car. The Game Commission issued a permit number which allowed him to keep the deer, and although most of the meat was bruised and damaged, they did get some tenderloin.

He is going to have the antlers mounted as a memorial to the deer that demolished his car.

 

 

We are looking forward to the end of this car saga, but are grateful that in all of this no one (but the deer) was seriously injured.

 

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God is good – All the time!

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