I am assuming this car is NOT paid for? Otherwise, you could have congratulated him, on having a used car and its first dent to show how not to care (use it to get from point a to b and the fun should be in the driving experience as well as the experience your going to/coming from, rather then how it looks).
So ......you know you are going to get another insurance check right? Just when you needed a vacation.Originally Posted by Float On
With tire, rim, and wheel damage it's all going to the repair. Have to keep us safe on the road.
Float On: My "Happy Place" is on my little kayak in the coves of Table Rock Lake.
Are you saying a good minimalist doesn't spit shine his/her car and get upset if it gets dinged? Be cause if that's true, I have no hope of being a real minimalist. My Toyota Tacoma shines and there is not one hint of a scratch anywhere. It gets parked as far away from every other vehicle as possible. I like walking.
I am not saying that. I don't think my coworker was saying that either. I mean, simple living and minimalism have core characteristics, but I don't think that SL or Minimalism do not allow for a person to like their car to be shiny and well-groomed.
But for this guy, my coworker, I think that for him he realized that the car was not as intrinsically important to him as he thought or perhaps once thought. So either his values changed, evolved, or were revealed to be different than he thought once his car got dinged up. I am sure there are some minimalists who would look at my fishing gear -- rod, reel, minnow bucket, cooler, tackle satchel, stringer, filet knife, catfish skinner, etc. and say: "How minimalist are you?! A real minimalist fisherman would fish with a wooden spear and gut the fish with his teeth!"
So I got my car back today. Their insurance company issued me a check for the repairs. I repaired everything except two small scratches that you can barely notice. The check was for $520 more than the repair. The $520 will go to a new muffler on the truck and the rest on the credit card bill.
Float On: My "Happy Place" is on my little kayak in the coves of Table Rock Lake.
So... I heard from a different coworker that the coworker who approached me about minimalism is making moves. I guess he is talking about going for experiences in life rather than stuff now. He apparently mentioned that he is considering minimalism to others. I don't know if any of this has to do with me, or with the recent popularity of minimalism, or both. But this is still an interesting development to me.
That's neat, Ultralie. Float, I'm sorry about the car but it seems to have worked out okay in the end--good use of the money!
Here's my favorite car dent story--my husband was at an AA meeting and this older guy, a real staunch member of the group, who was always kind of a know it all but a solid guy, was late coming to the meeting and ran into my husband's truck in the parking lot, twice, leaving a big dent in the door and on the by the wheelwell. He comes in, all white, and says to my husband, "I ran into your truck, I'm so sorry."
My husband says "not to worry, but you look bad, sit down, what's happening?"
Turns out the guy had had a heart attack in the car. The paramedics are called, they take guy away from a stretcher, as he is leaving room, his last words to my husband are, "I will have my insurance company call you and fix your truck."
He goes into hospital, in coma for 3 weeks, then dies. His wife has Alzheimers, no one to ask about the insurance, so now truck has big dent in side.
The truck had no body damage or rust whatsoever--and it was an '88. My father gave it to my husband when it wouldn't run and he was too old to fix it.
So my husband works to keep the truck alive and we sorta feel like once he goes, we can move truck along, as it is always needing something and we can't drive long distances with it. Yet it is the perfect farm truck and we use it all the time.
My husband has decided to fix the dents and repaint it and make it new again. We love the truck, but the paint was a bad batch and completely evaporated and fell off over the years, so it really has no finish.
for now, the dents are like a reminder of the guy and how important AA was to him--heart attack and he still shows up at the meeting, and that was his last action in the world, after 40 years of sobriety. Pretty darn cool.
Anyway, we are like william and I like my cars to be clean--i just drove to indiana to see my son and he said, "Did you just wash the car today?" (I wash it every week and it has 105k miles and is 5 years old). I love having a clean car--on outside, anyway, lol. Gotta clean the inside now.
He is my only neat, fastidious son--he once took a comb to show and tell in preschool and showed the other children how to comb your hair to "look cool."
Rodeo....
There are websites devoted to what is called the $50 paint job. (uses Rustoleum or tractor paint) Might be a good, keep the rust off the farm truck, inexpensively, trick.
My own car story
I came out from a store and a guy was out walking around trying to find me. His box truck's bumper was the exact height of my subcompacts tail light and he backed into that (no other damage). He was expecting me to send him some large bill and instead I send him the bill for the $5.00 light out of the junk yard Festiva. I remember he sent me more ($15 or $20) and a thank you/sorry note. That car was hit, five times, all under 5mph and people couldn't believe I drove it. Saved me money and got me through the worst time of my life, sometimes I still wish I had that car.
I really want my current car to be my last car ever. Ever! haha
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