A new adventure in cars

So Hayley decided recently she wanted to sell her car and get something newer. She said she wanted a Nissan Altima and we had been looking online to get an idea of prices, etc.


Last weekend, I made her go get hubcaps for her Sentra. Her car parked in my driveway without hubcaps was making my house look bad anyway. 


MONDAY'S EVENTS

• Lunch - Go to bank and get preapproval for car loan.
• Afternoon - American Express happens to send me an email about their auto purchase plan that I didn't even know they had.
• Afternoon - I find a nice car on AMEX site and email to Hayley and she really likes it and its about 4 years newer than what we had seen in our price range.
• 4pm - Call Hayley and tell her I'll meet her at house in the evening so we can wax her car before taking pics to post on Craigslist.
• 4:45pm - Driving home and see a 4-car accident. It is Hayley. Easy to spot because this week she is blond with blue streaks. Fortunately, she is not at fault and the faulty driver has great insurance.

The timing of this is all so uncanny.


I stopped and snapped this photo. Notice the new hubcaps.  


So the car is totaled, but the GOOD NEWS is that insurance gave us $1K more than what I probably would have made selling it, and I don't have to meet up with a bunch of bozos and/or ax murderers to show the car. 


We test drove the car we had found through American Express and it is awesome.  It's at a great price and newer than we had hoped to get.  She is very excited and I'm happy that she can actually get the car she really wants and the payments meet her limited budget. This is quite the upgrade for her. She is going from a 2000 to a 2011....so a complete decade. I'm so happy for her.  


I just came in from getting my mail. To top off all this uncanniness,  a dealer sent me a letter asking to buy Hayley's Sentra.