Just moved to a new house, and today was our first car commute ever for either one of us, outside of in college internships. Used to just take a train, now it's a car ride+different train ride. (I know, going backwards in mustachian ways to many of you folks, but it is right for us! In the summer we're going to try out biking it.)
Well, we were rear-ended by a large commercial truck within sight of the train station. Not an ideal start.
The pros/silver lining:
1. Other than some back/neck pain (we think quite minor, but we're crossing our fingers on it for the next 2-3 days as we see, took some advil but that's it so far), no injuries.
2. We have cash to buy a new (or new to us) car.
3. We can borrow a car from family in the meantime.
Unfortunately:
1. We think the car will be totaled, because it was a 2002 Honda Civic. If it's not, it's now worth a lot less for a later sale/trade-in after having been in a major accident.
2. We had planned to drive the car another 2-3 years at least until we have kids, and then were talking about possibly keeping it as a second car.
3. Getting out to where we can borrow the car tonight, with the blizzard hitting at that time, is pretty bad timing, and we likely still need to work tomorrow. We can't work from home tomorrow really easily because of not having internet set up until Sat.
4. There's never a good time for this to happen, but in general, this is pretty bad timing. We have enough to deal with right now in terms of getting settled in the new house (unpacking, getting internet set up, getting plumber in tmw to hookup dryer, getting permits for the dump - now to a car not registered to us for a while, etc) and selling off the condo.
Just really sucks.
/vent over