Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Who knew it could happen to me

Things have been a bit crazy the last month to say the least. between finding out my office was closing and I would be without a job to trying to sell the Honda because Ryan got a company car. We had even more fun yesterday and Zach had his first time with a police officer (not the last I am sure). We had the Honda listed in the Tennessean and on cars.com. Well a guy called Monday and said he was interested. We talked for about 45 minutes and he said he would come up on Tuesday to look at the car. If he liked it we had a deal. I was so excited. Well he came up Tuesday. He looked at the car and said he wanted to take it for a test drive. I completely understood. I wouldn't want to buy a car I had never drive either. He said he was going to run by Regions bank and get the money and would be back with the car in about 45 minutes to an hour. Well that went by then another hour. Finally I called Regions but they were closed. So now it is 5:00, Ryan is out of town and I have no car. I called the cops and reported it stolen. When they came to get my statement they ran the plates and VIN on the truck he drove up in and it was stolen with plates from another car. The car is still gone and I am sure we won't ever see it again. Now I have to figure out with insurance what happens. This is the kind of stuff you see in the movies and I can not believe it happened to me. I keep thinking what if I did this... but I figure it probably would have happened no matter what. I was not going to get in the car with him to test drive it so I knew I was taking a risk. A word to the wise. Be VERY careful when trying to sell you car to an individual. Insist you follow them while they test drive it :)

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