queenmama
12-15-2012, 09:51 AM
These two are unrelated but I figured I'd condense.
DH has been driving my car because his had the timing belt go out and he hasn't had time to mess with it. He was in a car accident yesterday (thankfully there were no injuries) and my car is likely going to be totalled. We have to wait on insurance to sort it out because there were witnesses but they can't say for sure who had a green light.
DH swears his was green -- and he wouldn't lie to me or anyone else about it, he is an honorable person and also very much the type to own up to his mistakes, unlike myself (lol) -- and one car turned left in front of him then the car he t-boned followed suit. I don't know how insurance will prove fault, but at any rate, we have gone from two cars to zero in less than a week.
ETA: Do we need to replace an infant seat base? We do have a second but the seat is borrowed so I need to know if we need to replace the one that was in my car at the time. Thankfully it was just the base at not the whole seat!
The bank thing started with us at fault... We had a couple of things go kaput in the past month or two, first the heater/thermostat and then the washing machine. We have hardly any savings so we had to skip our HELOC payment last month to make repairs and were waiting on this week's paycheck so we could get caught up.
The bank VP has tried getting in touch with us but I haven't made an effort to return his calls and DH is unavailable (working nights and sleeping days) so VP has resorted to calling MIL. Is this even legal??? She's not on our accounts at any bank, but we live in a small town and she banks there, so I guess he knows we're related. It just seems improper if not illegal, and it's also frustrating to have our parents up in our business.
I remember the recent BP about the bank giving the DH private info and this somehow seems worse... I just can't believe a bank feels like it is okay to involve third parties!
DH doesn't see it as such a big deal, and he is planning on going down today to settle our account, but I am super frustrated and feel like something should be said to the VP.
Again, it is our fault for getting behind, and maybe if we'd spoken to him to explain he wouldn't have felt compelled to call MIL (twice!), but I feel like that was out of line regardless. Am I wrong?
Lara
DH has been driving my car because his had the timing belt go out and he hasn't had time to mess with it. He was in a car accident yesterday (thankfully there were no injuries) and my car is likely going to be totalled. We have to wait on insurance to sort it out because there were witnesses but they can't say for sure who had a green light.
DH swears his was green -- and he wouldn't lie to me or anyone else about it, he is an honorable person and also very much the type to own up to his mistakes, unlike myself (lol) -- and one car turned left in front of him then the car he t-boned followed suit. I don't know how insurance will prove fault, but at any rate, we have gone from two cars to zero in less than a week.
ETA: Do we need to replace an infant seat base? We do have a second but the seat is borrowed so I need to know if we need to replace the one that was in my car at the time. Thankfully it was just the base at not the whole seat!
The bank thing started with us at fault... We had a couple of things go kaput in the past month or two, first the heater/thermostat and then the washing machine. We have hardly any savings so we had to skip our HELOC payment last month to make repairs and were waiting on this week's paycheck so we could get caught up.
The bank VP has tried getting in touch with us but I haven't made an effort to return his calls and DH is unavailable (working nights and sleeping days) so VP has resorted to calling MIL. Is this even legal??? She's not on our accounts at any bank, but we live in a small town and she banks there, so I guess he knows we're related. It just seems improper if not illegal, and it's also frustrating to have our parents up in our business.
I remember the recent BP about the bank giving the DH private info and this somehow seems worse... I just can't believe a bank feels like it is okay to involve third parties!
DH doesn't see it as such a big deal, and he is planning on going down today to settle our account, but I am super frustrated and feel like something should be said to the VP.
Again, it is our fault for getting behind, and maybe if we'd spoken to him to explain he wouldn't have felt compelled to call MIL (twice!), but I feel like that was out of line regardless. Am I wrong?
Lara