the glory and the horror

Kathleen’s sturdy Honda Civic may have met its demise. She was in a car accident this past week (not at all her fault) and someone hit her from behind, causing her to hit the car in front of her, causing that car to hit the car in front of him. So when it was all said and done 4 cars were involved. She’s just fine, but it was a bit scary, especially since this is the car I see:

She’s had this car since high school, and it’s really been a reliable and trusty vehicle. We’ve driven it all over Texas, back up to Wyoming a few times, and generally had great experiences in this car. Even with all that, it only has about 130,000 miles on it. The engine probably still had another 100,000 miles to go! Oh well. We haven’t heard back from the estimator, but when we took it to the body shop, they weren’t optimistic. The other thing I didn’t mention is that there was a pool of blue-green fluid accumulating under the front of the car – radiator fluid!

So if that’s it for little Syzygy, so be it. We will miss her great gas mileage (still getting 30+ mpg on the freeway, 25+ in the city) right up until the last tank.