Friday morning, I went out to my car to leave for work. As I approached, I noticed something unusual. It looked like my car had big, black bug antenna's. Weird. As I got closer, I realized what it was... I had accidently left my sunroof cracked open throughout the night, and the molding around it had snapped in half and was sticking straight up in the air.
Surprised and a little upset, I really didn't think much of it. I tried to bend it back into place (with no avail) and ended up tucking it inside the sunroof so at least I could drive to work without looking like a hug idiot.
It was a beautiful sunny morning and as I was driving, the sunlight came through my windshield. Wait... what is that... it looks like a... paw print. No. It can't be.
The sunlight came in through another angle and ... there were little paw prints ALL OVER my windshield.
The first thing that came to my head was a picture of some rabbid animal attacking me as I'm driving a huge SUV, going 70 mpg down the expressway. I have quite the imagination and I was actually planning my emergency exit strategy if needed.
After getting to work (unharmed by the ghost animal), I looked up the weekend weather and saw it was to rain the next day. Urgh. That means I needed to get it fixed today, not during the weekend. So, I called up my dealership and left work to go get it looked at. The guys were laughing at me (I'm sure I was the story of the day) and after they looked at it, it was determined that the entire freaking sunroof needs to be replaced. The stupid animal tore it up -- the side molding, the main molding, etc. trying to get inside (thankfully it couldn't squeeze inside) and steal a box of Cheez-Its I left inside. After closer examination, not only were there footprints all over the windshild, the guilty little bastard left footprints all over the hood of my car, too. The quote: nearly $700. So now I'm really mad. Little f-er is costing me a lot of money!!! (But, I can't help but laugh. It is a funny story). It's going to take a few days for the sunroof to come in, so the dealership put this sticky, saran-wrap type plastic over my open sunroof. Ghetto... :)
I later looked up raccoon footprints online and confirmed that it was, in fact, raccoon footprints covering my car. Later in the day, I called my insurance company to see if the damage was covered. The convo went something like this:Me: I believe a racoon destroyed my sunroof and I was wondering if it was covered by my insurance.
Insurance lady: (dead silence)
Me: It's okay... you can laugh
Insurance lady: (busts out laughing) what...!?!?!
Me: I believe a racoon tried to get in my car, through my sunroof, and it completely destroyed the molding around the window. The dealership told me the entire sunroof needs to be replaced. Is this covered?
Insurance lady: (still laughing) In all the years I have worked here, I have never heard this one before.
They're suppose to call me back today and let me know if I'm covered... please keep your fingers crossed that it is!
Seriously though... I live in the burbs. Raccoons should not be walking through the parking lot, hoping to find an open sunroof and find a box of Cheez-its. What are the chances!?!?!?!
6 comments:
This post kept me laughing from start to finish. Yes, it totally sucks that this happened to you and I feel for you on that, but the nature of it is just hilarious! Hope you get good news from your insurance so you don't have to fork out all that dough.
My favorite part is "it's okay, you can laugh." Good luck getting it covered!
Ha - that is soooo funny.
I had a cat slip into a TINY opening in my sunroof and SPRAY in my car. It took like a year to get rid of the rank ass smell.
Are raccoons an act of god? Maybe it will depend on the insurance agency's definition.
that is funny and I love that you okayed her to laugh. I hope it is covered, I'll be crossing my fingers for you!
That's just too funny!!! The conversation.... not the raccoon actually tearing your car up. I really hope that there's some clause that will cover that for you. 700 is a lot of money for something like that.
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