Truck Accident – can’t go home for xmas :(

     Well, Rob got into an accident. He had just gotten the truck fixed up for the trip, we were already delayed by 3 days and he was on his way back to my house from Midas. He was two freakin’ blocks away, when some guy decided at the last minute to make a left turn in an intersection when Rob was going straight.

     I guess the guy was hesitating a little bit, he was going pretty slow, and got stuck in the snow as he turned. Rob didn’t have enough time to stop, and he tboned the guy. Somehow Rob managed to get the truck into the Esso station at the intersection where it all happened and parked it right in the entranceway. The grill was smashed, headlights done too. The bumper is toast, and the right hand fender bent in so far that is obstructed the wheel from moving…

the only good news: the other guy got charged for an improper turn. However, we have no vehicle. But there I was, thinking maybe we could get a rental out of the deal. No.

Rob calls his insurance broker, and she starts freaking out, telling him that she forgot to switch his plan over and he’s not covered! Since all of this happened 2 blocks from my house, we just walked there and made all the phone calls we needed to make from there. This whole thing happened yesterday at 1:30pm…didn’t even get a tow truck until 7pm!

Finally got back to Rob’s house at around 8, where I could finally make some phone calls of my own.

to be honest, I wasn’t sure whether I was happy about not going home, or sad. I certainly was relieved that I didn’t have to face my mother…

Didn’t even realize until today that I really miss my grandparents. They are always there for me. We ended up at Rob’s grandparents house, and we had a great dinner. Pizza and squash soup. Very good. They always have pizza and soup.

But it was the dessert that did me in. Apple crisp. It tasted just like my Nanny makes it. I spent the whole time I was eating it trying not to cry. Then broke down at the end…and took the phone with me to Rob’s room and called my Nanny.

that only made it worse, really. I want to just take a plane down there…but at this time of year it’ll cost me $800 for a round trip. *sigh*…I’ll miss too much work if I take the bus…it’s a 17 hour drive.