Allison Plean: The Steamboat blues


Allison Plean



Allison Plean





Yeah. My interior light is permanently on because my car thinks the door is open, and I've got a nice winter breeze circulating through the cockpit.



The accident was actually my iPod's fault.

If Apple didn't provide such bad quality headphones with those ear pads that always fall off, then it wouldn't have been so easy for my dog to rip them out of my ears and smash them on the pavement. This prompted me to resort to eBay for a replacement. And maybe I shouldn't have ordered them from halfway around the world, because if they got here faster, I wouldn't have felt compelled to stalk my PO box for three weeks and therefore total my car.

It all makes perfect sense.


Someone, please sympathize with me. Lord knows my car insurance company won't. But I'm not alone in my bad luck this week.



Maybe the accident was more of an instant karma example.

At approximately 8:12 a.m. I went through a four-way stop intersection and almost hit a car that I didn't see through the one little square of ice I was too lazy to scrape off my car.

Lesson learned. (For at least a few weeks.)

The nice man at Custom Color said it would cost several thousands to repair my car. His direct quote is that there is an "ungodly amount of damage."

Does that mean it's beyond the help of prayers?

My new year's resolution should be to become a better driver.

I know we all have our bad "country song days," but it's extra hard times when it happens before noon.

Reporter Alexis DeLaCruz sent in this e-mail the same morning as my "fender bender."

"I am having a really bad day. I lost my debit card (had to cancel that), lost my Christmas list and my parents are like breathing down my neck. I hurt my neck snowboarding. I broke a nail, slipped on some snow ... and it's only 11:33."

I still don't have my headphones. But maybe I'll find them under the Christmas tree I don't have while I'm working on Christmas Day.



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