About 6 weeks ago Tim and I bought a new car. Nothing special, just a 2008 Chevy Aveo that gets about 35 mpg.
Tim drives 26 miles one to Redmond everyday and since we aren't planning to move closer anytime soon we needed to find something more economical than the Jeep. The Jeep gets roughly 18-20 mpg, the Aveo payment and gas usage work out to be cheaper than filling the Jeep up every 5 days, add in the insurance and it is only slightly more expensive than the Jeep's gas usage alone.
We tend to take the new car everywhere. Better gas mileage and all that, plus the girls think it is fun. Well, Tim and I took it out on Friday morning to run some errands. We ran to Lowe's, the mall and stopped for a crappy lunch at Applebee's. After that Tim dropped me off at home so I could run get my hair cut off (more on that later) and ran do to an errand for me and pick up something from the game shop in the same parking lot.
When I came in that afternoon I had the unfortunate luck of finding this:
Oh yeah, this is the rear driver bumper of the Aveo. It isn't actually dented, that is a reflection. But the paint is completely gone and we are now sporting some additional white paint. As you can see the light needs a little correction as well.
Tim hadn't even noticed it. I freaked out and am still pretty darn pissed off. There was no note, no nothing.
How is it that we can have a SUV for 6 years and never get hit, then we buy a subcompact and it gets hit on the same day the first payment is due?
Asshole drivers.
