Well, my wife tells me I'm never spontaneous, and never just do anything. So for Christmas, one of my cousins sends a two DVD set of all the ancient 8mm movies my long deceased grandfather had taken, starting in the late 1930s, converted to DVD. My daughters (ages 15 and 11) were fascinated with the video, so I decided, what the heck, we'll drive to St. Louis (12 hrs one-way), and check out all the sites in the movies (zoo, ancestral home, grave of my Mom's big brother who died 10/28/41 at age 6, etc.).
So, on the way home, after a very cool one-day visit to STL, I'm just cruising down I-55, and from a flat bed several cars ahead, comes the infamous flying rock. I saw it coming, but there was nothing I could do to maneuver away. And this is what happened after the hit (which sounded like a bullet hitting us).
Alas, traffic conditions did not allow me to chase down the perp and impose accountability for their sloppy and careless loading of a rock-infested piece of dirt-moving gear. . .
So, for the rest of the remaining five hours, the girls and I watched the three cracks slowly expand further and further out into the glass. That was fun.
Looks like we'll be getting a new windshield. At least Florida requires all auto insurers to provide zero-deductible windshield coverage. The twist will be that Toyota specs a special noise-insulating windshield for the Hybrid Camry. It will be interesting to see if I get any pushback from USAA on the special glass.
Well, there, I've vented now -- thanks to anyone who bothered to "listen." Grrrrrrrrr.
So, on the way home, after a very cool one-day visit to STL, I'm just cruising down I-55, and from a flat bed several cars ahead, comes the infamous flying rock. I saw it coming, but there was nothing I could do to maneuver away. And this is what happened after the hit (which sounded like a bullet hitting us).
Alas, traffic conditions did not allow me to chase down the perp and impose accountability for their sloppy and careless loading of a rock-infested piece of dirt-moving gear. . .
So, for the rest of the remaining five hours, the girls and I watched the three cracks slowly expand further and further out into the glass. That was fun.
Looks like we'll be getting a new windshield. At least Florida requires all auto insurers to provide zero-deductible windshield coverage. The twist will be that Toyota specs a special noise-insulating windshield for the Hybrid Camry. It will be interesting to see if I get any pushback from USAA on the special glass.
Well, there, I've vented now -- thanks to anyone who bothered to "listen." Grrrrrrrrr.
