The Mustang finally did me in…
Posted by Jake | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 05-02-2008-05-2008
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…Or something like that. Maybe the title of this post should read: “WAOW Channel 9 are nothing but paparattzi”. Well, there’s the Mustang in all it’s powerful glory. Maybe if I would have just stood my ground with Melissa we would have never gotten this deathtrap. But you know me…I’m a sucker for my wife.
So I decide it’s time to get rid of the Mustang. I really wanted to go test drive the Saturn Vue at Saturn of Wausau. It wasn’t snowing all that hard but once I got on the highway, it really started to come down. I slowed down to about 45MPH-ish. The WAOW truck was merging onto Hwy 51/I-39 and being the courteous driver I am, I slowed down and moved over to allow it to merge onto the highway. As I moved back to the somewhat clear right lane after the WAOW truck merged into traffic, he decided to brake and pull over rather quickly. There was a jacknifed trailer on the other side of the highway. As I quickly slowed down to avoid hitting the van, my wonderful RWD caused me to slide into the other lane and thus slamming into another truck coming pretty fast down the left lane.
What bugs me more is that instead of getting out of the van and seeing if we were OK, he just whipped out his camera and started filming the whole deal. I wanted to flip him off, but the state trooper was standing next to me. I didn’t feel like going to jail.
The worst part? I GOT A TICKET!!!??? I’ll definitely be fighting that one.
Isn’t it lovely? The pony deathtrap almost done me in. The claims adjuster thinks it’s borderline totaled, and we should know more tomorrow. I hope it’s totaled. I never want to drive that car again. I’ve had two near death experiences with that car and I never want to drive another foot in it. It’s done.
Since then, I’ve test driven the Jeep Compass, Saturn Vue and Chevy HHR LT1. And I never thought this before, but I think I like the HHR best. It’s not a speed demon, but it handles the best of them and has great gas mileage.
Now lets see what the insurance and the bank says…