You put $1200 into a great car that runs near perfect but just happens to be about 12 years old, and what do you think happens? It gets totalled.

It's a good thing that's the only thing we can complain about though.

I was at home. I had just got in from de-flowering the garden and was in the process of emptying the dishwasher and ran outside to have a smoke. And the phone rang. It was the cabana boy, who asked if I wanted to good news or the bad news. The good news was he was walking, the bad news, the Subaru was totalled. Some kid pulled across two lanes of stopped traffic into the third lane where Nate was moving at about 35mph.

I had to drive 30 minutes. Some things about living in BFE really do suck. I knew he was okay and talking, but that's all I knew. I had my mom on the phone with me (on speaker phone, I wasn't taking any sort of chance) to keep me calm while I drove there.

Nate's okay really. A lot beat up, some bruised knees and sore muscles. Thank Subaru for making a good safe car.

It just sucks a lot to have our wonderful safe car is now totalled, and it's going to be a hard task to find another just like it for what pittence I'm sure they'll end up giving us for it. Oh, but we'll be making sure they know that in the past month we put over $1200 into our baby.