2010 Dodge CaliberSince our car is still @ the tow lot awaiting it's fate we are stuck with a rental car. This is our rental car, the 2010 Dodge Caliber. Jesse hates it, but I don't mind it as much as he does. I think we're both a bit prejudice since we were so in love with our car. Its hard getting used to a new car that is nothing like your car. We've been describing this car to people as a station wagon and a tank combined. It's a boxy big tank of a station wagon. When comparing our Mazda to the Caliber it appears that our car costs more, but that our car has better ratings. The Caliber comes with Satellite radio, but we prefer our heated leather seats and moon roof. Thanks! Hopefully we'll get this all figured out sooner rather than later.
The accident...
Jesse was driving to work and I was along for the ride, so I could take the car home for Cody and I to have for the day. We decided to stop and get cinnamon rolls to share. *note: they are some of the best cinnamon rolls ever, but we're not really sure they were worth ruining our car for. On the way from the cinnamon roll place to his work it was really snowing good. You could barely see 2 car lengths in front of you. I remember seeing the back end of a green truck in front of us and then all of the sudden there was a tire coming at us. The truck had a full size spare underneath and it apparently wasn't attached well, because it came off. The traffic was bad, because it was rush hour, so we had no where to go. Jesse stopped the car just before we ran over the tire. He had plenty of time to stop, so we didn't run over or hit the tire doing damage to our car. I remember seeing the tire on the ground and having a sense of relief. Then 2 seconds later we were slammed from behind by another truck, who apparently didn't see us stopped. My neck was instantly in pain and from there it was chaos. We are both very lucky to only have some minor cases of whiplash. Headaches, neck pain, and Jesse's arm hurts from gripping the wheel so hard, but other than that we're doing fine. We went to the hospital to get checked out and were prescribed some muscle relaxers, aspirin, ice and then heat for our muscles, and lots of rest. I've been taking the lots of rest thing to the max. I pretty much slept the last 2 days away. I'm trying to get back into a routine, so I can feel normal again. This daze I've been in for the last 2 days is driving me crazy. Hopefully we get our car situation figured out soon. The options are it is fixable and we get a salvage title or it's scrap metal and we get to do the whole car hunting thing over again. Either way it's not an ideal situation, but everyone is lucky that it didn't turn out worse.
The accident...
Jesse was driving to work and I was along for the ride, so I could take the car home for Cody and I to have for the day. We decided to stop and get cinnamon rolls to share. *note: they are some of the best cinnamon rolls ever, but we're not really sure they were worth ruining our car for. On the way from the cinnamon roll place to his work it was really snowing good. You could barely see 2 car lengths in front of you. I remember seeing the back end of a green truck in front of us and then all of the sudden there was a tire coming at us. The truck had a full size spare underneath and it apparently wasn't attached well, because it came off. The traffic was bad, because it was rush hour, so we had no where to go. Jesse stopped the car just before we ran over the tire. He had plenty of time to stop, so we didn't run over or hit the tire doing damage to our car. I remember seeing the tire on the ground and having a sense of relief. Then 2 seconds later we were slammed from behind by another truck, who apparently didn't see us stopped. My neck was instantly in pain and from there it was chaos. We are both very lucky to only have some minor cases of whiplash. Headaches, neck pain, and Jesse's arm hurts from gripping the wheel so hard, but other than that we're doing fine. We went to the hospital to get checked out and were prescribed some muscle relaxers, aspirin, ice and then heat for our muscles, and lots of rest. I've been taking the lots of rest thing to the max. I pretty much slept the last 2 days away. I'm trying to get back into a routine, so I can feel normal again. This daze I've been in for the last 2 days is driving me crazy. Hopefully we get our car situation figured out soon. The options are it is fixable and we get a salvage title or it's scrap metal and we get to do the whole car hunting thing over again. Either way it's not an ideal situation, but everyone is lucky that it didn't turn out worse.
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