This One's Broken. Can I Get Another One?

Brian had his first accident driving here on the corner of our block on the way home from work on Friday afternoon.  Luckily it wasn’t his fault.  He was waiting to merge into traffic and a delivery truck took his rear view mirror off with its back bumper.  So what do you do when you have an accident?  Call it in and get a new car.

 

At least that is what we’re doing this time.  Our rental period on our temporary car ended today. We had a Honda Odyssey.  It’s nothing like an American version of the Odyssey to be sure.  It’s about half the size and still with seven seats. Look how short it is with Brian standing next to it. Anyway, the old company picked up the broken car and the new company brought us our new sweet ride.  Pictures soon of that one.  It’s red which is an unusual color here so we will be able to find it.  That’s great news to me.  Everything here seems to be grey, silver or light blue. 

 

Getting a red car was a stroke of dumb luck.  We literally had five vehicles to choose from.  No.  I don’t mean five makes or models.  I mean there were five vehicles in the entire country that we could have.  The lack of availability of things still floors me.  Three of the vehicles were totally hammered and looked really worn out – all three were either three or four years old.  They don’t build them to last here that’s for sure.  Of the two left one was normal and one was deluxe.  We went for the one with the better seating arrangement, seats that fold down into the floor for hauling more stuff, rear back up camera, GPS in the dash and a DVD player.  The kids are stoked about the DVD.  We wonder if it will even play US DVDs.  Kind of funny to think it might not.  The kids will be super bummed, but as far as Brian and I are concerned we weren’t planning to use it anyway.  DVD players are for 8 hour road trips not going to the grocery store.  And I can cross the island in an hour.  When they would use it we don’t know.  We’ll have to find some middle ground on this one.  Otherwise it is just plain mean to NEVER let them watch it.