So, just when I though things were going good with the band, Jeremiah (bassist) sends all of us an email saying he is quitting. And then there were three.
My burn is still peeling and annoying the hell out of me when it is dry. Amy came over for the weekend but I pretty much ruined it since I didn’t feel like going anywhere or…well…moving my body.
I went back to her mom’s house to eat dinner with her. When I was driving home on the 10 west I came over the little hill about two miles before the Rosemead exit and saw a basket (or something similar) in the middle of my lane. I had a split second as it only came into view just over the crest of the hill. To my left was the carpool lane ($378 fine) and to my right was another vehicle. At 80mph in a split second I decided I had to take the hit (now I realize I should have just ducked into the carpool lane for 10 seconds). BAM! I hit the thing and it was all metal. I could hear it getting dragged underneath my car and on the road. I quickly took the next exit (Rosemead) and parked at the nearest parking space (a grocery store)…only after a million gawking fools laughed and pointed at my car saying “hey, you’ve got a shopping cart on the front of your car, retard!” When I got out of the car I discovered a huge metal (thick metal tubing) basket lodged into my lower front grille. I ripped it out and assessed the damage. It broke parts of the mesh in the lower plastic grille and knocked it completely out of place so that needs to be replaced, it punched and scraped the license plate (but who cares), and put major paint damage in the lower front spoiler.
So, to recap…. (I’ll do this by how many months old my car is…)
1 month old: Some retard keys my back left window
9 months old: back left bumper damaged by someone parallel parking behind me in front of my apartment on Cahuenga (no note or anything left)
10 months old: a large truck owned by Ridduk’s Extermination company has a metal flap (or something) come open and put a giant dent in my left front fender, scrape in front wheel, and paint damage to front bumper while I’m parked in front of apartment on Cahuenga.
16 months old: Somebody scrapes my back bumper again while trying to parallel park behind me at work (while I was inside working)
17 months old: some a-hole leaves a mini-lobster tank in the middle of the highway that impales my front grille. Luckily the metal spikes/tubes stopped about an inch short of poking a hole in my radiator or I would have had even more problems.
To see a shot of the basket in relation to the front of the car click here
To see a shot of the basket itself look here
to see the damage to the grille look here
to see the damage to the lower back bumper a month ago click here
