errantember

So I recently had one of those "oh-thank-God-no-one-was-hurt-*AND*-they*didn't*ask*for*insurance-I'm-*so*-lucky - my-tags-were-out-and-Dad-was-in-the-car-it's-going-to-take-*HOW*-much to fix?!?!?"-kind of fender benders while scoping chicks or some other more-important-than-not-killing-people-while-driving activity, to the tune of about $2500.00. And this estimate was from a Christian missionary that's a personal friend of my father's, which is the next best thing to Mom honesty-wise. It was one of those "each piece is only bent two degrees, but you have to replace them all and there are twelve"-kind of estimates. There were three resulting problems, two of which I was able to fix today via a process that began with wrapping a chain around a nearby tree...
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