Michael Bevilacqua

My Rav4 was in a hit and run recently when Elizabeth borrowed it and was staying overnight at a Friend’s house. She couldn’t exactly place at what point in time the car was hit. According to her it was because of the snow on the car. As you can see most of the damage was on the front drivers side of the vehicle.

http://princessleia.com/images/accident/

I just received the total estimate on what it will cost to get my car fixed: $2276.46 - we will owe the $500 deductible to the insurance company. I hope my plan’s rates do not rise due to this.

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Top Gear is a BBC show starring three ‘blokes’ that do strange and unusual things to all sorts of cars. It’s very entertaining. Especially show three in season nine where they get chased out of a gas station in Alabama for having the following words written on the junkers they purchased in Florida.

Country & Western is rubbish
Hillary for President
Man-Love Rules Ok
I’m Bi
Nascar Sucks

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It will become apparent in some future time why I have had such a bad month with my 2005 Honda Civic. Like I mentioned, Coyote is tripping me up and testing me. These are all very good tests, very challenging patience wise. I can honestly say that I’m handling them in a more mature manner than before I embraced Shamanism.

So, Saturday May the 20th I headed over to the gym in the AM in Fort Washington, did my workout, showered and headed over to pick up my friend Juliana for a wedding we were going to attend. As we were driving to the wedding someone turned into my lane as he wasn’t paying attention as he attempted to make a left into a parking lot entrance at the furniture stripping shop on Glenside Ave. Fortunately I was going 25 in a 25 so I was able to avoid any serious damage and didn’t deploy the airbag. The car was driveable, so after going through the police report/insurrance process once again, we drove up to my house in Schwenksville to get the Rav that way we would only be late to the wedding.

On Monday I called Progressive again to get the car back into the body shop. I have to admit, I’d be lost without the team at Grand Sport Auto Body in all of this mess. They do top quality work in such little time. It only took them 5 days to repair the civic again. And fortunately for me, I don’t have to pay the deductable this time around as the person at fault was insurred by the same company I am. I should also be receiving the reimbursement of the first deductable for the prior work shortly according to my contact at Liberty Mutual.

I was still shaken up on Tuesday though. Elizabeth wanted to travel into Philadelphia for a Linux Chix meeting at a Sushi Bar in West Philadelphia. We were going to take the train to avoid driving but the stress got the better of me. I didn’t see the point of an hour train ride and 20 minutes of walking just to for sushi and geek women. I also didn’t want her walking around West Philadelphia by herself late at night. So we ended up not going. I feel sort of bad about this, yet, I had my reasons for not wanting to put myself through any more potential stress or annoyance.

The rest of this week turned out to be wonderful though and I’m happy this situation didn’t turn out to be worse.

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In Shamanic terms, coyote has been very present with me these past few weeks. Coyote is the trickster animal. He causes trouble, trips you up, and tests your maturity.

It all started with my left knee hurting one day after a run around the mountain. It was unfortunately the day after my health insurance coverage was dropped. I’m figuring it will get better by itself, but I also have to stay on goal with my current workout, so instead of the treadmill I’m using one of those cross-country type stepper machines which surprisingly work very nicely. Funny thing is my hip hurts less than my knee does.

The SanDisk Sansa e140 arrived. This is really a great little $75 mp3 player. I’m happy I was patient while the prices dropped and the quality increased. And just as I was hooking it up to my laptop to get some music moved over I noticed a short in the laptop’s power supply. So I’ve ordered a replacement for that as well.

And finally last evening I went to meet up with Elizabeth at the LA Fitness in North Wales which is the closest to her work in Lansdale. After our workout I was approaching my car and noticed the right rear window was shattered. Upon further investigation, there was also a very long slash just under the window impact area. Due to how high this damage was and that there was no damage underneath it I immediately assumed it was an SUV or truck.

I called Progressive Insurance and then the Montgomery Township police. As I was on the phone with the police a man showed up and said he was waiting for me. He was very apologetic about the situation. I was very happy he waited for me. He was driving a Suburban Propane company truck, a Ford F450 with an extended cab housing a lot of heavy machinery. The Civic didn’t stand a chance. He was backing into the parking space next to me and miscalculated his rear corners. No damage occured to his truck.

So I filed a poilice report, got a claim number, took the car over to the body shop this morning and just received a call with the estimate for $950.61 worth of repairs that should be complete by Tuesday of next week.