"This might as well happen" x100
My horrible month continues to be horrible. My car hit someone's car Friday. Because he sped up but that's unprovable so fault looks 100% mine. I haven't had an accident prior to this for over five years. No injuries at least.
I really don't need the expense of paying the deductible or renting a car, but what I need doesn't matter. Gotta be done.
I hadn't even had the Forte a month yet. The car's registration stuff arrived in the mail just the day before, which was great since the auto repair place asked for my driver's license and registration to make copies of.
It used to be that bumpers protruded out from cars so only the bumpers would be damaged. These days, it's all car. It's all the front of my car. This is so stupid. The damage is over $3,700. Of which I pay a $500 deductible via bank check or cash when the repairs are done. The scheduled completion day of the repairs is Friday the 29th because I was dumb enough to rack up my car a week before Thanksgiving.
My first rental car's seat was more uncomfortable than my Forte's uncomfortable seat. A comfortable seat seems like the very least thing a car manufacturer could provide. Along with real bumpers! But seats are cheaper.
First rental, you might ask. In more "this might as well happen" news, I had to trade in my first rental, a Chevy Malibu I disliked since everything was in counterintuitive places, because the remote fob stopped working the next morning, locking me out of the car. Due to previous "omg, my life" shenanigans with my Elantra, I knew there were other ways to get into some cars when the fob dies and looked up how to unlock and get into the car manually when the fob dies. Good thing I found this out around 11 am, because that Enterprise location closes at noon on Saturdays. I would've been doing workarounds to deal with the fob problems with that car until Monday. I drove myself to Enterprise in time.
The Chevy Malibu looks like a car, albeit a modern one.
The 2023 Kia K5 I'm now driving looks like it murders people for fun. (It's from Tennessee, so it doesn't have a front license plate like we New Yorkers are forced to.)
Not everybody gets to drive a car that looks a bit like a shark.
Ironically, aside from the somewhat uncomfortable seat--how have car manufacturers forgotten how to make comfortable seats?--I love this car. When I sit inside it, I feel at home. More than the Forte I settled for and am currently poised to get back Friday.
Am I alone in thinking that aside from the mandatory computer stuff, the interior is retro-styled?
I really don't need the expense of paying the deductible or renting a car, but what I need doesn't matter. Gotta be done.
I hadn't even had the Forte a month yet. The car's registration stuff arrived in the mail just the day before, which was great since the auto repair place asked for my driver's license and registration to make copies of.
It used to be that bumpers protruded out from cars so only the bumpers would be damaged. These days, it's all car. It's all the front of my car. This is so stupid. The damage is over $3,700. Of which I pay a $500 deductible via bank check or cash when the repairs are done. The scheduled completion day of the repairs is Friday the 29th because I was dumb enough to rack up my car a week before Thanksgiving.
My first rental car's seat was more uncomfortable than my Forte's uncomfortable seat. A comfortable seat seems like the very least thing a car manufacturer could provide. Along with real bumpers! But seats are cheaper.
First rental, you might ask. In more "this might as well happen" news, I had to trade in my first rental, a Chevy Malibu I disliked since everything was in counterintuitive places, because the remote fob stopped working the next morning, locking me out of the car. Due to previous "omg, my life" shenanigans with my Elantra, I knew there were other ways to get into some cars when the fob dies and looked up how to unlock and get into the car manually when the fob dies. Good thing I found this out around 11 am, because that Enterprise location closes at noon on Saturdays. I would've been doing workarounds to deal with the fob problems with that car until Monday. I drove myself to Enterprise in time.
The Chevy Malibu looks like a car, albeit a modern one.
The 2023 Kia K5 I'm now driving looks like it murders people for fun. (It's from Tennessee, so it doesn't have a front license plate like we New Yorkers are forced to.)
Not everybody gets to drive a car that looks a bit like a shark.
Ironically, aside from the somewhat uncomfortable seat--how have car manufacturers forgotten how to make comfortable seats?--I love this car. When I sit inside it, I feel at home. More than the Forte I settled for and am currently poised to get back Friday.
Am I alone in thinking that aside from the mandatory computer stuff, the interior is retro-styled?
