ouch!

the estimate on the car won’t be ready until thursday, because when the insurance adjuster looked at it, he decided that they would have to completely dissasemble the damaged part of the car – which is the entire passenger side – to determine exactly what needs to be replaced… apparently it’s close enough to the line that they want to be absolutely sure, before they total it. another interesting fact: when i dropped it off at the shop, the guy asked me if it was an ’05 or an ’04, and i said i wasn’t sure and called moe… meanwhile he went out to look at the car, and came back and said it was an ’04 at almost exactly the same time that moe was telling me it was an ’05… that we paid for an ’05… so i wonder if it was really a leftover ’04 that they were selling at the ’05 price to naive buyers who didn’t know any better… 8/

bottom line, we can’t afford the rental car, so i’m taking it back.