|
I've Got Something to Say
|
I took a half day’s vacation this morning to go down to Cape Girardeau in order to sell & sign the title of Goldie (Andrea’s ’97 Buick LeSabre) to a salvage yard. It was two weeks ago today that Jacque & I received a phone call as we were finishing up our dinner, in which Andrea informed us that she had just been involved in a car accident. Obviously she was shaken up, but had no major injuries, but Goldie was seriously damaged from hitting the side of a Ford Expedition.
Goldie was really a gift to us a year and a half ago, from Jacque’s cousin, Lynn, after her father had passed away. Ideally, my plan would be to spend a few thousand dollars to get her looking OK and usable for a couple more years. However, after contacting a body shop, their estimate was in the neighborhood of seven to eight thousand. So, the most viable solution would be to sell her for scrap/parts. I submitted an online form to a cash for cars website over the weekend (heard back from them today as I driving back to STL), called another internet cash for car company Monday morning (not hearing back from them in the quoted time frame) and also called a salvage yard outside of Cape and received an acceptable offer, thus the trip to Cape today to complete the transaction.
Over the past few days as I pondered this scenario, my mind kept going back to a scene towards the end of the movie Apollo 13, as the crew got settled back into Odyssey, and jettisoned Aquarius in final preparation to reenter Earth’s atmosphere. A couple of lines uttered by the crew in those few moments were, "She sure was a good ship." and "Farewell Aquarius, and we thank you."
The Aquarius served as a lifeboat, though that is not what it was designed to be. And though Goldie was not a lifeboat in the sense that the Aquarius was for the crew of Apollo 13, she was a life saver in her final moments as the air bags deployed and her structural design provided protection for Andrea in a moment when it counted most. We didn’t have a long history with Goldie, but she will still be missed and hard to replace. She was a good car.
Farewell Goldie, and we thank you.
0 member views | 6050 total views
report problem |
|
|
|
|
more...
