{"id":379,"date":"2006-07-17T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2006-07-17T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T15:41:05","slug":"you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have Got To Be Kidding Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to think of a useful reason to keep talking about my misfortunate series of events this summer.\u00a0 And, perhaps at\u00a0the end of today’s blog, I will feel as if I have provided information that is relevent and helpful.\u00a0 But for now – I am only capable of ranting and telling you that I now believe that I am one cursed mo’fo.\u00a0 Yes, I said mo’fo.<\/p>\n

Here we go:<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we were bopping down Gallatin Road here in Nashville – on a sponteanous milkshake run to shake some of the summer heat off.\u00a0 Gallatin Road is a four lane road famous for lousy drivers and desperately misplaced parking lots that only allow you to pull out into oncoming traffic.\u00a0 Anyhoo,\u00a0one of Nashville’s finer citizens, with\u00a0a lovely gaze of someone who had been hittin’ the juice a little earlier than he\u00a0shoulda’ been,\u00a0was pulling out of one of these parking lots – strangly enough, right in front of a car going forty miles an hour (that would be us).\u00a0As much as I tried, I couldn’t stop in time to prevent us from ramming him nearly head on.\u00a0 He was less than concerned with the fact that this was our brand new car and only mildly concerned that there were two children involved – he was more concerned that his\u00a0rusted out 1970 Buick whose bumper was, literally, dangling by a piece of rope was “damaged”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our brand new car is now undrivable and in the shop.\u00a0 Not sure if its totaled yet – the wheel and axle\u00a0are pretty bent – so we just have to wait to get the word from the mechanic.\u00a0 But it looks pretty awful.<\/p>\n

Ahhhh, here’s an educational twist:\u00a0 Get the gap insurance<\/a> when you buy a new or used\u00a0car.\u00a0 We didn’t.\u00a0 We knew, when\u00a0we bought the car that we should, but couldn’t afford it – it was a pretty high premium that they were quoting us.\u00a0 So now\u00a0we are incredibly nervous about the fact that we may be paying for a car that is damaged beyond repair.<\/p>\n

Aside from that, I am just wondering what the deal is.\u00a0 It seems like, since things have been looking up for us as\u00a0a family that we have had the worst occurances around us – things that seem completely out of our control.\u00a0 When we were poor and could barely eat and not making art and working too hard at things we didn’t love and not able to spend time with our kids or each other, it seemed that everything else was great – no accidents, no death, no illness, no tragedy.\u00a0 Now, we are happy and making it and getting closer to our goals and everyday we feel lucky – and it seems that the more of this we have the more we are faced with completely uncontrollable ickyness.\u00a0 Do you have to always\u00a0give something up to be happy?\u00a0 Is this some way of making sure we don’t get too comfortable or at ease with our lives?\u00a0 Is there always going to be some big disaster or heartbreak that we are going to have to deal with if we keep living a comfortable life?\u00a0 I am starting to think yes.\u00a0 I am starting to think that this is how things keep its balance.\u00a0 I am starting to wonder if being financially unstable and overworked wasn’t a better gig than this.\u00a0 How crazy is that?<\/p>\n

Better go get back on the phone with the insurance company.\u00a0 Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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