Crash/Football

Sometimes I think to myself. . .  "nothing exciting happens to me".  Then something happens, and I think "this is all my fault for thinking nothing exciting ever happens to me".

This week I was going to my doctors appointment when I got in a car accident.  I'm 100% fine, but our car. . .  not so much.  I was driving along a nice one way street, the light was green I was going straight and suddenly someone made a left turn into me.  She wasn't going very fast so I'm fine.  Our car got crunched in the back passenger side door.  It doesn't open anymore.  Also after about a day later our car decided that it would turn on the security alarm every time we opened the door.  Then the next day the battery decided it didn't want to work anymore.  With the assistance of our neighbor I jumped our car (I am basically an expert at jumping cars), but then then alarm went off.  I have a theory that there is an electrical short where we got hit and the rain just messed everything up.  Another car I had had the same problem with dying batteries after an accident in the same area.

Also something weird, we called the police to come to the accident, because in Utah when the damage is over $1,000 you are supposed to call the police and they write up a report and give someone a ticket.  (It's actually pretty sad that I know so much about this)  Here the police guy came, made sure that we were fine, that our cars were drivable and made sure we exchanged information.  Then he said, "It's not our responsibility to decide who's at fault, that's what the insurance people do."  Then he left.

We are now part way through the insurance investigation and waiting to hear from the liability people.  I'm pretty sure there is no possible way to find me at fault, but we still need to wait and see what the insurance people have to say before we can move forward with fixing the car.

So that's what's going on with the car. . . that poor car has had a sad life.  But I guess it is making me become more responsible and capable and handling accidents and problems.  Andrew is lucky, no one wants to randomly crash into the car when he's there.

On another note. . . Andrew and I went to the University of Pittsburgh football game against University of Utah.  The first quarter was pretty exciting, other than that not so much.  It was really fun to be at Heinz Field where the Steeler's play.  It's HUGE.  We didn't really know who we were cheering for going into the game, and I guess we never really decided I just cheered for the team that had the ball, it's more fun that way.  Also I don't really care about either team that much.  We were in a section split pretty evenly among Pitt and Ute fans.

We had a fun time and it was nice to be able to see a football game in person this year, we are planning on going to a Carnegie Mellon game sometime, but they aren't so good--like high school. But that should be fun too.

The guy behind us is making a funny face :)

One funny thing is that they pat you down before you can go into the stadium.  The girl accused me of trying to smuggle something in under my jacket.  She felt pretty embarrassed when I showed her it was my pregnant belly.