In the early hours before dawn on the Thursday of my infamous birthday weekend, our doorbell chimed its melodious tune announcing the arrival of a visitor. It was our across-the-street neighbor, and she’d come over to inform us that, while we slept in unknowing slumber, she’d misjudged the distance from our curb – all the way across the street – to her driveway and plowed into the back of my 1998 Red Jeep Cherokee Sport.
So ends the era of the Jeep. Today her insurance company called me and told me that it was a total loss as the amount of damage is more than the poor thing is worth.
That Jeep and me have been through a lot. Blizzards in Colorado and torrential downpours in Missouri – two across three states moves in less than a year – the Jeep’s gender change, several fender benders (but only one that was my fault), quite a few speeding tickets, a new car and lots of good times.
I can’t help but feel this is my fault. After all, I’m the one that relegated her to the curb upon the new purchase of my silver shark.
I’m gonna miss that damn Jeep.
And while I felt for my neighbor that Thursday, today – I’m not liking her so much.
Wow…unfortunately, not many neighbors would admit of the accident at all. So for that, yeah for her. But if your Jeep is at a total loss, then she must have really pushed the pedal down to get out of her driveway. Much faster than the ….what…. less than 1 mph that she should have been going.
I am sorry for the Jeep. I think that I may have even taken a ride in her/him a few years back.
(moment of silence)
He will be missed.
I had to choke back a tear when I was cleaning out the xterra when I traded it in. She was reliable and never let me down..like a good pet. I know how you feel.
Christina… thanks for the moment of silence. I never did determine if my Jeep was a boy or a girl. After I saw the dangling parts underneath the Jeep after years of calling her a her… well it just felt to private to ask her/him since it’d never come up…
Kiko… can you believe she’s gone???