Earlier this evening, as we were driving home from a visit to my in-laws, I thought it would be funny if I posted this pathetic but true-to-life tip on Twitter:
Lifehack: Can’t afford repairs needed to pass inspection? Make sure you have washer fluid. Pass cop, wash windshield, sticker date obscured!
Within about ten minutes of sending that message, my cell phone rang. It was our houseguest, who had been borrowing our truck. He asked for my husband, so I handed the phone to him, then watched as Jeff’s facial expressions moved through various phases of alarm, and thought aw, fuck, what NOW?
Here’s what he was alarmed about:
Thus, my follow-up ‘tweets’ (1, 2) upon arriving home:
Fact: If you have 2 vehicles (one w/ valid inspection, one not), & you tweet about the one w/out the inspection? Guest will wreck other one.
ALSO, the vehicle that gets totaled (almost exactly as you were tweeting about the other one) will have just had $600 worth of repairs done.
At least the Henrico County cop at the scene did not find our friend (the houseguest who was borrowing it) at fault. (And, most importantly, he wasn’t hurt. Freaked out and terribly remorseful, but not hurt.) The insurance situation is still going to be a mess though.
Oh well, at least my husband’s unemployment checks finally started coming in.
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* UPDATE, TUESDAY JULY 22: And now the Jeep’s transmission has died. So other than my husband’s motorcycle (of which I am mortally terrified, and have never been on; nor have I been on any motorcycle in approximately a decade), we’re down to zero vehicles. No, I’m not kidding.