Wealth Today

My wife and I were previously traveling on our way home on LBJ Freeway’s HOV lane in Dallas. We enjoy ride sharing because the HOV lane cuts the trip’s duration almost in half. Since there’s no traffic, we get to move at 50-70mph when everyone else is stopped on the four lane parking lot. The lane is protected with double solid white lines and those lines occasionally change to an unprotected single dashed line where everyone slows down to allow people to change in and out of the HOV lane.

About a year ago we were in an accident when another person traveling at about 0mph, breaking the law, crossed those lines. We  were hurt and our car was pretty mangled.

It happened again. This time though, I did not hit the other person. Fortunately, no one was hurt. However, my tires were flat-spotted from the hard-braking action. I buy good tires, Yamaha YK420, and have always appreciated their road worthiness. I buy the free replacement filters as way of protecting those tires. Since the tires are destroyed, I have to replace them. The certificate doesn’t help because it’s not considered a road hazard. How frustrating! Last time the insurance took care of the tires. This time, there’s no insurance involved. That one person’s foolishness cost $190USD this time. Thankfully, I had some cash saved in my freedom savings account that helped with that.

Here’s some advice. If you do it to me again, get out of your car with a wad of cash. It would be better to at very minimum, have the courtesy of looking in the lane and not pulling in front of someone. Rather though, please wait for the single dashed line where other courteous driver’s have slowed down and given you freedom to safely enter or exit the HOV lane. This is where you’re not breaking the law and endangering your life or someone else’s.

Just when my track record for rebate fulfillment was going strong, Logitech had to screw it up for me. I purchased a Logitech, MX1000 mouse on 12/19/2005 and the rebate offer says I had to buy it between 12/18/2006 and 12/24/2005. Of course like any other rebate offer, you have to include a copy of the reciept. My HP PSC2110 All-In-One works great for photocopies. I don’t know if they can’t read it (mind you, the date is printed on there *TWICE*) from the photocopy even though I was able to read it. Maybe they didn’t understand their own terms. Unfortunately, there isn’t much help available via phone, but I’m using their online form for contact at this point. I’ve filled out their form and am awaiting contact. I sent Thursday night, so I’ll give until Friday before attempting to write again. Maybe by then I’ll receive the photo and it’ll have something helpful in it. I’ll update as it comes in.