What’s New? tiggerprr’s Last Few Months in Pictures!
Our adventure has been well…eventful for the last few months.
First, Ashlyn turned 18 on October 2. She informed me she was going to “ride that ass!” then she giggled as I picked my heart & jaw up off the floor. She was of course, referring to the donkey at the Fiesta del Burro Loco. Ai yi yi.
Then on October 5, she wrecked our Cadillac…
I received a phone call from Ashlyn beginning with “Mom, first let me say, it’s not my fault.” You can imagine my thoughts at that moment. I have to say, I’m quite proud of how she dealt with her first wreck. She was calm as a cucumber through the whole ordeal and not one tear was shed.
As she was leaving school, the girl driving the car behind Ashlyn was fumbling with a radio or something and plowed into the back of Ashlyn, sending her into the car ahead of her. In total, 4 teenager vehicles were involved, and ours was the only one that had major damage. Most importantly, no one was hurt. Cars can be replaced, kiddos can not.
The insurance company totalled our car. ::mourn paid-for Cadillac::
Halloween was fun. We got a new jack-o-lantern kit courtesy of Mr. Potato Head. Ashlyn and her boyfriend (also acquired during my blog vacation) Elliott assembled our “Pirate” with the help of one of our neighbor kids.
And I hung out in the yard again…
Ashlyn bought her first car in mid-November with some help from Grandparents and us!
She wrecked it 6 weeks later…
Amazingly, this one wasn’t her fault either. However, the jackass who backed in to her while on his cell phone and not looking (a 44-year old man, no less) lied to both the police and his insurance company that she had hit him, defying the laws of physics…his insurance company initially denied our claim…
I should have been a detective/lawyer…they say that pictures are worth 1000 words. In this case, it was worth just over $1200. There was a perfect mirror image of her tire and the word “Rotation” on his bumper. We argued how could this image be so clear if her car was in motion? He clearly, hit her. He also was paying so little attention, he didn’t even realize which side of his truck was involved. I also pointed out that inaccuracy. End result: a check to repair her damage and a rental car voucher for the time it’ll be in the shop. Lesson I hope that jackass learns: Don’t F*** with tiggerprr’s daughter and stop being a big, fat liar!. Lesson I hope Ashlyn learns: Honesty and a billion pictures of everything is the best policy.
And she wonders why I hesitate to let her drive my car…
Hubby has a growth coming out of his head…
And Ashlyn and I get to go to the Democratic Presidential Debate held here in Myrtle Beach this coming Monday…woo! I’m more excited for her, since this is almost like being a small part of history.
How have YOU been? 
January 19th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Wow! Uh…how’s the hand?
January 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Life sure has a way of happening, doesn’t it?
I forgot how much your cat looks like mine!
January 19th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Songbird: In the grand scheme of things, your “opportunities” are far greater than ours. My hand is getting better, still hurts when I do “too much”. This too shall pass.
Travis: They really do look like they could be littermates almost! Except Mr. Tucker is quite a bit bigger.
January 20th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
So sorry to hear about your diminished opportunities. We shall have to chat soon to discuss the potentials.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Wow… some life you have been living… good detective work there … glad no one was hurt in either accident, though I have to say the girl that hit your caddy must have been going pretty fast…
January 24th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Poor Ashley! Thank goodness she wasn’t hurt.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Checking up on you.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Aww man, that reminds me the year of when I first got my license. I was hit a few times…. once I was at the red lights, and some guy decided he wanted to go to my lane but I think he misjudged how close the front of his car was to the back of my car and I heard this smash… then he reversed and then went back to his lane. I ended up trying to chase the guy but he sped away.
The second time I was leaving the McDonald’s car park at 11pm and our car was stationery as we were waiting for someone to turn in to the lane we were in. He hit our car. He lied to the police, and the police couldn’t do any thing about it as they claimed it was on “private property”. As if. They police are just too lazy to do any thing. :p
But yeah stuff is stuff, as long as people aren’t hurt it’s all good!