This one’s parent company is State Farm, and the last I checked for prices on my BB SUV for NV coverage, they have rates quoted for it, for the little ol’ lady from Hooterville who only drives it on days ending in “y,” beginning at $168 a MONTH.
I checked a couple of others since getting the notice that I was being dropped by my current company, and the cheapest I could find was $136 a month. My question, for all of these companies, is “WHY???”
I have a clean driving record, a really old vehicle, and I’m a really old lady. OK, not THAT old, but they’re basing their quotes on the driving records of people like me all over the country. Not fair to those of us who are defensive drivers.
Now, they expect us old fogies to take a “senior driving class.” What???? I’ve had a license since I was 21 and though I’ve been in three accidents, none of them were when was I driving.
“beginning at $168 a MONTH.”
That’s about what we’ll pay for Elen to drive the Avalon. It will go down when (NOT IF!) she has a clean driving record for a year, and then it will go down again a few months later when she turns 21.
Maybe you can take Senior Driving online? My parents were at the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office taking Senior Driving when Dad keeled over from excessively low heart rate. EMS in the same building; they had him to the hospital in about 10 minutes, and he got his pacemaker within 36 hours.
We’ve had several inches of snow today, but the temperature was above freezing most of the day, so the roads are clear. CPCC was closed, dog-walk not required because the owner is a home-security installer and nobody wanted installing in the snow. CPCC will be closed again tomorrow, but I hope the gym will open!
It’s been a day of Academic Instruction and/or Learning Activities here at Deo Vindice Christian School. We watched History of the Ottoman Empire videos, watched a dozen species of birds dealing with snow, practiced algebra, and made cards. Pat got a new math-puzzle book; we’ll probably only see him for meals until he’s completed all 200 of them.
James started American History on Khan Academy, because he has to wait 24 hours for another try at mastering Systems of Equations. Poor James, it’s upsetting them. I keep pointing out that this isn’t the first time we’ve had to work on a skill for quite some time ... just be patient. Patience is not the James’ strong suit. Vlad is learning World History as a break from math.
Various children went out in the snow, but most of the didn’t stay long. I think Sally has gone over to her friend’s house, and Elen may have gone to wander around in the snow again, although it’s starting to get dark.
I wrote to my seminarian in India, Brother Henry K+23otherletters. He seems like a sweet young man, has a sister and brother-in-law in Houston. He was worried about passing his first year of Philosophy, so maybe he’s not a top student ... but just being able to read and write Malayalam, his native language, as well as English, seems like a real achievement to me! I was sitting next to an Iranian friend at a church luncheon on Saturday, and he said, “It’s great that you can speak Spanish. You’re so smart!” I said, “Hamid, you speak Persian and English.” “That’s different!” (Yeah, it’s harder: Spanish is easy to learn.)