Wednesday, November 10, 2010

the rest of the story

so today . . . i was thinking about the whole "rollie chases bass amp across parking lot, but to no avail as amp hits porsche despite his best efforts at stopping it" incident. some of you have been wondering how things turned out. so as requested, here is the rest of the story. and of course, i had to put it into a top ten list.

TOP TEN THINGS I DIDN'T TELL YOU BEFORE ABOUT THE "INCIDENT."

10. the lawyer actually turned out to be very nice.

9. the porsche wasn't new. but it was newly restored.

8. it was, however, new enough to have an alarm system. or an alarm system was part of the restoration. because when the amp smacked into the car, the alarm went off. and kept going. and going. and going. fortunately there was no one in the parking lot. although, that kind of begs the question, how effective is a car alarm if it goes off and no one comes...

7. the spot where the amp hit had been previously hit, and repaired. that's why a big chunk fell off.

6. since the porsche had just been restored, the owner understandably wanted to take it back to the shop that had done the restoration. that seemed reasonable to us--if we were in his situation, that is what we would want to do too. so we had an estimate in just a couple of days.

5. the estimate is not in the thousands of dollars--it is only a few hundred dollars. (i hesitate to use the word "only" in front of the words "hundreds of dollars," but the fact is, that repair bill could easily have been in the thousands if it had been a brand new car.)

4. our car insurance probably won't cover it. but the church's insurance probably will, since it was a church activity. although, it will make the premiums go up, so we may not submit it to the insurance.

3. the amp is fine. it is big and heavy and solid. it was turned so that a corner is what hit the porsche. that may have resulted in more damage to the car, but probably also in less damage to the amp--like none. you can't even tell that it went on an adventure...

2. rollie is fine. this may seem obvious, but i can't help but wonder what would have happened if he had been able to catch up with the amp. that thing was moving FAST! and as i said, it is heavy! would he have been able to stop it? would it have thrown him over and onto the porsche? would it have flipped him onto the pavement and run over him? so many questions...

and the number one thing i didn't tell you before...

1. rollie never did play his bass guitar. so as it turns out, the whole thing could have been avoided--if we had just left the amp at home and gone in my car...

and there it is. just another one of those things that seems to have happened for no reason other than to supply material for a blog. or two :)

2 comments:

mom said...

Glad all turned out well when you think it could have been worse. Play on!!!!!!!!! Should have had that video camera running!!!!

Carroll said...

Thanks for the rest of the story. We've sure wondered. Rollie was fortunate to avoid personal injury as you say what could have heppened if he would have caught up with it. Such a lot of trouble for nothing! Love you Julie!