Our mazda-aka- the Pickle

I got in a car accident today. I was at the Gold's gym parking lot, going straight, when I reached a sort of intersection, where another guy was going straight, we didn't see each other, and we hit. There were no stop signs or anything since it was a parking lot, and it was both our faults, in my opinion. I should have slowed and looked, and he should have slowed and looked, but neither of us did, and we hit. My front passenger corner of the car got hit, and his driver side front got hit.

The airbags deployed, ugh, and both cars had to be towed. The girls are fine. They were in the backseat, tucked and buckled nice and tight in their carseats. They were shook up of course, my nose hurts a little from the airbag, and my shoulder from the seatbelt, but other than that we're fine.

The other guy. You know how there are some people that milk situations? I think he might be one of them. First, he didn't speak any English, so I couldn't communicate with him in any way. That doesn't help things much. Then he complained about a head/shoulder injury and went away to the hospital in an ambulance. Personally, I think he's fine. He had an airbag, so I think he'll be okay. But who knows? I'm not him, so I can't say for sure. I don't know if he was wearing a seatbelt. I don't think he was...

In parking lots on private property, they split the costs 50/50 for the insurance. At least that's what they say. We'll see. At least we both have insurance. And we have good insurance through Allstate, so with accident forgiveness, even if for some strange reason I'm found at fault (even though like I said, with parking lots, they don't assign fault), our insurance rates won't go up. We have a deductible to pay, but that's it.

But our car, oh our car. Our nice little Mazda, in perfect condition, bought new in '07, is now hurt. It makes me sad. I hope they fix it up nice for us. And we're not planning on ever selling it, so we don't care if it has an accident on its record.

If I were destined to get in an accident, this was an ideal one to get in. The part of the car that was hit was the only part of the car that didn't have a passenger in it. I was only going 10mph, so there weren't any injuries, at least on our part. I'm so glad my car wasn't hit anywhere toward the back. My babies are in the back. I just don't even want to go there.

I've spent my morning crying and bawling, because that's what I do in any kind of emotionally intense situations. I'm mad that I have to pay the deductible, even though that really is a minimal cost. I'm mad that I spend most of my time trying to save money, and then this happens. Ugh. I'm done complaining.

Then I spent a lot of time hugging my kids, thanking my Heavenly Father that they are fine. You know there are some times where you are more relaxed about the carseat? You think, oh we're just going to the store. They don't need to be buckled. I'm so glad they were buckled.

There. The end. That's the story. We don't have a great history with the Mazda. Remember back in March when the crazy lady towed it and we had to spend $200 to get it back? This is not a good sign...