Ben's New Car

The day after his accident he took a day off from work just to take care of stuff.  That included calling his insurance company, talking to the woman's insurance company, the chiropractor, Korum (where he got his car), his bank, etc.  I got the rear view mirror from his Subaru and wrote its dates on it.

The Saturday after his accident we took the day to figure out where we could rent a car.  It just would have been really hard for me to drive back and forth to get him in Tenino twice a day.  I just didn't want to do the wear and tear if I didn't have to.  I would rather have him drive the crap out of the rental car.  He called a few places for pricing.  He would also have to pay out of pocket until the insurance kicked in and covered it.

The best local price we found at Enterprise.  Unfortunately, we didn't bring any bills mail to prove our address so we had to drive all the way back home, grab some bills with our names on it and head back to Enterprise.  It was annoying.  He got all of his paperwork filled out, the guy scanned his license and insurance, Ben paid for a week's worth of rental car and we headed back home.

He had the car for about two weeks until he had some time to shop for another one.  He went to Puyallup to have lunch with his mom and to find another car he could afford for now.  I got home before he did.  He called me about an hour later to have me come outside to see his new car.  He ended up leasing a black 2018 Hyundai Elantra because the monthly payments would be cheaper than outright owning the car.  Of course he wanted to own it but he just couldn't afford the payments at this time.  I found out that when you lease a car you have to keep it under a certain mileage each year so that meant we would be taking the Escape on longer trips rather than the car.  I walked outside expecting something else.  It totally reminds me of a mom car.  I now call it Ben's mom car.  He scowls at me every time I say it.

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