A bout of bad luck....

Over the past few weeks, Tom and I have narrowly missed a few certainly-ugly car accidents. The usual idiots not paying attention and swerving dangerously into our lane. The guy who blatantly ran a red light and would have t-boned us if I hadn't been slow to start on my green light. And most recently the woman in Porter Square who was more interested in eating her muffin and drinking her coffee than paying attention to our car which clearly had the right away. I find these altercations annoying at best, but Tom gets downright angry, given the nasty accident he was in two years ago.

Well, our luck ran out today, although thankfully neither of us were in the car. Our neighbor's construction worker lost the brakes on his van and, given the choice between hitting our car, a brick wall, or people, choose wisely and hit our parked car. Sheered the bumper right off the front.

No one was hurt, and the aftermath is more annoying than anything else, but oh, the ironies! We were supposed to be at the Pats game today, but gave our tickets away to Tom's friends. I was supposed to have left already to meet Tom at a local restaurant to watch the game, but was puttering around the house trying to get just a few more things done. I would have normally pulled in temporarily in the alley in front of my in-laws cars, but didn't want to get a nail in my tires from aforementioned construction. Sigh....the best laid plans!

Poor Tom -- I'm flying out to Atlanta tomorrow and he gets to deal with all the follow-up!