Vick's Rental Car Woes!!!!

Well, I offered it as a 'teaser' to get you guys to come back so I thought i should follow through with the promise and explain my "bait."

Well, it sounds harmless enough...my mom has been driving a rental car for the past week. Harmless...yes. Harmless for Vick...no! Hilarious for KK and I...absolutely. And the story goes...

My mom was hit by a 16 year old girl on Christmas Eve day right in front of the Walgreens at 50th & France. The girl was going too fast and slid through a red light right into my mom's brand new BMW. So fast forward to today...this week is the week that her car finally is getting fixed, which means one thing...don-don-don...RENTAL CAR!

So, Vick drives her car over to Don Sear's to turn her car in and retrieve her rental car. Well, typically when you hit someone your insurance pays for them to drive a car from the dealership that you get your car fixed at. However, in my mom's case she was hit by a 16 yr old with horrible insurance that would only cover a lower-budget car...aka - a 1999 Ford Taurus Sedan.

Now, let me regress for a moment...my mom is an absolute doll. She is probably the nicest and most selfless human being i know, however, when it comes to her cars and her hotel rooms she wants/demands the best.

So to the say the least she was not so pleased with her rental car. Now, this may sound like a small and silly woe. I agree with you...yes. However, it gets better. Not only is this car a complete and utter 'eye sore,' ...(a nice hunter green/sparkle with gray cloth interior), but it also is as long as a boat and reeks to high heaven of cigarette smoke. So not only does this boat of a rental car barely fit in the garage...but my highly allergic and highly asthmatic mother is driving in a smoke ridden car.

Well, it all came to a head the other day when my mom walked into the house looking like the abominable snowman complete with a large Burberry purse. Dying of laughter at the sight of my mother in head to toe snow gear I managed to ask her, "what the heck are you doing?!" To which she simply told me, "I can't breath in my car because of the smoke smell! I have been coughing and wheezing all week so I have to drive with the windows down in the car! It's Asphyxiating me!!!!" (hahahaha!)

Now, for those of you A-holes that live in warm weather climates, it has been unbearably cold here! We are talking negative temps (TEMPS! Not windchills), and windchills that are so low that they have had "dog warnings" on the news as to how long you can leave your pooch outside.

So in the midst of these temperatures my mother, each and every time she gets in the car, rolls down her windows and drives there looking like a freaking North Pole Explorer!!!!!!It is quite possibly one of the funnier things I have ever seen! We are talking the whole gitup...a freaking scarf wrapped around her face, hat on her head, gloves and blanket on her lap.

Both KK and I have taken to watching her departures from the den window as the sight of her...well, of her snow gear because the only part of Vick you can see are her eyeballs and little blond wispies...is enough to cheer me up and keep me laughing all day!

The car has now been returned but whenever i see a hunter/forest green Ford Taurus Sedan I can't help myself but to start laughing. I apologize no photo. I will be a better journalist next time!

Absolutely priceless!!!!