I'm sooo pissed!!
I just got Jim his anniversary gift EARLY to surprise him (because he would expect something in June). I traded in our Ford Escape and got him a brand new, fully loaded Expedition. It's really hot. The exterior is a high-definition gloss black color with grey trim, black leather interior, moon roof, DVD-system with wireless headphones and remote control for people sitting in the back to watch movies (you can also plug in X-Box and otherr video games for long road trips), heated seats and air-conditioned seats (you can turn the AC on to cool off your butt in the summer LOL) and I can't even list all the other features because there are so many. As my friend Charley said, it's totally "pimped out" lolol
Jim has been wanting a new SUV for a looooong time and I wanted to surprise him so badly (he usually always finds out about his anniversary gifts or I give in and spill the beans lol). Anyway, I told him I was going out to get a manicure and pedicure but I really went to pick up the car. I drove home with it and it had a big red bow across the hood. When Jim saw it, he completely flipped out!! He loved it and he was totally surprised (which was my main goal lolol)! We drove it around to show our family and friends and then went out to dinner to celebrate.
But back to why I'm upset ... we don't even have the car 24 hours and it's been damaged! On the driver's side but by the passenger's door, it looks like someone threw a bottle at the car! It has 2 dents high up by the window (if it was any higher, they would have shattered the window!!
) and there's some sticky stuff (like soda or jucie) on the car. So we think someone threw a soda bottle or something like that at the car. Grrrrrr!!
I was so FURIOUS this morning!! I don't think it was done intertionally because we don't have any enemies where we live and we're pretty friendly with everyone in the neighborhood. We think it was just some kids fooling around or something. But still, I'm so upset!
Oh yeah, and besides the 2 dings some of the freakin paint came off!!
Anyway, Jim's been calling around all morning to get prices on fixing it. He's heard anywhere from $1,000 to $1,500 (because there's paint involved besiders banging out the 2 dents. Then Jim remembered that his friend owns a body shop and he called him and told him what happened. To make a long story short, he broought the car in and the guy looked it over and told Jim he'd do it for $325 (the cost of the paint). He isn't charging Jim for ANY labor. So basically we're only paying to order that special black gloss paint from Ford.
I can't believe what a great price we got for all the work involved. Because of where the dents are, the guy has to take the whole door off to bang out the dents. Then he has to paint the entire door (more than once) and do a few other things to do it treat it for that glossy finish look it has. This guy is going to get an amazing tip from Jim and I'm going to send him and his wife a really nice basket of chocolate and flowers from 1-800-Flowers to say thank you. It's the least I can do for all the money he saved us.
Oh yeah, not only is he saving up a lot of money, but he's fixing it TODAY. The car will be ready tomorrow morning.
I still feel really bummed about all this. It totally ruined that super happy feeling we were having yesterday.
