Saturday, January 16, 2010

A Demolition Two-fer

The other night, our third daughter, A, needed to go to the store to pick up some items for her upcoming trips. She is in basketball, and has been nominated to go to State Choir. She wanted to take our Yukon to the store, so I gave her the keys. Two minutes later, they were back in the house crying. "I hit the van." Great. We quickly went outside, and the first thing I did was look at the Yukon. No damage. Then I looked at the van. The front left fender and driver's door were all dented in. Then they told me she hit it with my truck. What? She was driving the Yukon. It seems that the truck was parked behind the Yukon, and she was quickly moving it so they could leave. The back right tail light--gone. Tailgate dented so it won't open.

Luckily, a two pound hammer, a crowbar, and some tape (colored and clear) got both vehicles up and running again. It's not pretty, but it was cheaper than a body shop. We hope she learned something.

Keep on keeping on. Stick.

5 comments:

Delirious said...

erm.....

Delirious said...

When I first came to this post, there was nothing there! You must have still been editing. :)

Nene said...

I'm glad you could fix it and that it wasn't any worse. Sorry you have dented cars now though.

Inklings said...

Isn't it fun to see what kids manage to do???

Mr. Giggles said...

At first, I thought you were going to tell us she pushed the truck into the van WITH the Yukon! Glad things weren't worse, and that nobody was hurt!