Day 208 - It's Always Something!

Okay, this isn't my truck, but it's representative of what happened to my SUV last night at about 12:30 a.m.

My husband and I were sound asleep when there was a huge crash and horn honk. We were instantly awake and rushing to the bedroom window to look out towards the street. We both expected to see a head-on collision at the intersection near our home.

What we saw was a red minivan backing away from the front end of my SUV, then slowly driving down the dimly-lit street.

We kind of looked at each other with a look of bewilderment...and then it hit us: The driver had struck MY truck!

Sure enough, he had. And he had slowly driven away. Too bad we weren't more alert at that time of night to get our act together and run out to get a license plate for the police who arrived within minutes.

I jumped into my husband's rig and went driving around the neighborhood looking for the slithering snake of a man but couldn't find him anywhere. He was gone. Poof!

After filling out the police reports, my husband and I lay back down to bed, our heads reeling.

I swear to God, if it's not one thing it's another. Just when I think I'm finally coming up for air, I get pulled under by a deep undercurrent. Who knows when I'll come back up from this one. My husband figures it'll cost about $4,000 to fix the truck. It isn't even drivable today.

We do have insurance...but that comes with a high deductible...which we DON'T HAVE! $500! I don't even have an extra $20 bill after payday...which was just today, LOL. Ho, hum...

I lay in bed last night fighting a migraine and beginning to spiral down into depression.

But then a song played in my mind: "I will praise you in the storm." So I lay there humming this tune to myself, and then prayed to the Lord and said, "You know what? I will praise Your name through this, too." And I did.