The Toyota Chronicles

It is no surprise for anyone that pays attention to current affairs that there has been some resistance to buying Toyota brand vehicles recently. My wife and I purchased one in 2008 and despite the pushback, have been Toyota advocates ever since. After today’s story, maybe you will be also…

A typical Saturday morning began with my wife heading off to volunteer at the library and me putting off the honey-do list. (This week's list consisted of finding the plastic Easter eggs that mysteriously dissappeared this Easter season, cleaning up the apple pie and vanilla ice cream I left all over the kitchen counter the night before, and changing all the light bulbs around the house that no longer worked; like those obnoxious fluorescent ones in the kitchen.)

Even with a bad back, I couldn’t get out of tasks as simple as these, and so my Saturday began. And then I heard a crash that sounded suspiciously like Optimus Prime throwing our dumpster against the concrete, amplified by 100. I figured I better get outside and investigate this situation. Here is what I found out in the parking lot outside of our door:

Some poor guy bumped the carport with a U-Haul truck (not even his U-Haul truck mind you, he was just helping out a friend) and the whole thing came tumbling down like a Tiger Woods house of cards. As I looked closer I could see the tail lights of a Toyota Corolla that looked exactly like ours. Kelly had taken ours to the library, but someone else wasnt so lucky.

The main beam also pierced the rear passenger window of a Nissan Maxima parked one spot from my own very reliable Ford Ranger.

The whole ordeal began around 10am, and the clean-up crew finally had most of the debris moved away by 6pm that evening. After all that, the Toyota came away ready to rock n' roll. A few dents and dings, but still in operable condition. Well done Toyota, well done.