TOTAL LOSS

How many of these have you walked away from?  Don't be afraid to admit it.  If you come clean, you'll get to know how many I had.  Of course,you know that I'm going to tell you anyway.  Just relax, sit back and listen to my story.  It's not really too bad.  I was thinking about this today and I really do not know why.  There was no outside stimulus to excite me into flowing my mind one way or the other.  So, without provocation I started to think about the cars that we in the family have returned to the scrap heap.  I got to thinking about the many times that it has happened to me and I can't believe that it was so many.  There was one stretch in my life when I got worried about my ability to concentrate and after the third total loss event in four years, I decided to seek professional help about my mental abilities.  Those of you who know me can surmise that I saw the professional one time.  During that one time I decided that I was a lot more competent to take care of my mental equipment than this soppy individual.  I save the insurance company a lot of money on that one.  I still think that something in the space of about five years there, stuff was not firing right in the belfry and all of a sudden, wham, iron was flying all over the place.  Through it all, I wrecked five cars, only one of which was anywhere near valuable.  It was only three years old, and a small one.  I was coming back home from work at about 12:30 midnight when in an intersection just 200 yards away from home I smacked into a huge Yukon, head-on.  I wasn't wearing my seat belt and at 35 mph I came out of it without a scratch.
What I did get out of it was enough money to buy a nice Honda Civic Hybrid with enough left over to get number one son a down payment and better loan interest on a brand new car as well.  
Despite the many cars that I have recycled, I have been blessed in that no one was ever hurt and in the end things went well.  It is something that impresses me, this impersonal, wreck a car and get a better one attitude.  There has to be a lesson there about our way of life.  Be that as it may, all's well and our Honda is now going on 7 years and at 136,000 miles, we still like it a lot.  And I haven't hit anyone in all that time.