In which I am an idiot.

[la_marquise]

So, yesterday, it being fairly bright and crisp here, the marquis and I decided to go for a walk in a local country park. It was lovely -- waterfowl, trees, happy dogs and lots of mud (fun for the under-fours, if their behaviour can be trusted). However, the mud was also in the car park, and, leaving, I skidded and went into a fence post. Result: dented bumper and associated damage. The idiot girl strikes again.
Car is now at the car spa, awaiting mending. Bill anticipated as around £800 (around $1250, for the USians). That about accounts for the payment for the sale of the German rights of Living With Ghosts, then. Bah, humbug.
Of course, this run of poor luck that I've been having this new year may be good in other ways. (I have a theory that luck is limited, and there is only so much to go around, so me having rubbish stuff may be good for others. Well, I can hope.)

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Oh, too bad. Cars just know when you have new money (as do major appliances), and love to help you spend it.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Hey, as long as no-one was hurt.
And congrats on the German rights sale. I think LWG would go down very well in Germany.

[fireun.livejournal.com]

Bad luck comes in batches, but the good luck that follows is always refreshing as a result.

So sorry to hear about the car! That seems to be going around lately.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Oh damn.

Bearing in mind the exceptional count of crashed cars we saw yesterday (on average one per 5 miles!!), I think it may have been a good day not to drive at all.

(It's not much consolation for the damage you did have, but at least your car was only lightly dented - I expect all the ones we saw were write-offs, and at least one had an ambulance in attendance, so your luck could have been worse.)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Given that I understood "skidded and went into a fence post" as "and am in hospital, I am mightily relieved, but still, rotten bad luck.

[muninnhuginn]

Oh dear, poor you and poor car. (I'm really glad I didn't know how slippery the conditions were yesterday until after M and Looby Loo had driven to Royson and back: it's bad enough worrying about my tiny wee offspring doing rugby practice without stressing over the travel as well.)

But, hurray for foreign sales!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yet another car fixing due here, too, and no payments to balance! Wah!

[stina-leicht.livejournal.com]

Okay. German rights sold = Yay. Car ding = boo. I prefer to look on it as making room for all the good luck *you'll* have in the coming year.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Not a good start to your year.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Well, the German sale is good luck, so think positive.

[attimes-bracing.livejournal.com]

Fence posts need to be punished...

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Oh poor car (but am relieved to know that you are in one piece).

[glass-mountain.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that, K. Mind you, it does sound as though skidding was pretty unavoidable. Will insurance cover it?

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

And who, might I remind you, reversed merrily into your car thus denting the bumper for the first time? (For which I still owe you).

*Not you*.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your car, but glad you're not hurt.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Is it worth claiming on the insurance?