G’day guys, not really a dull story unfortunately but I just wanted somewhere to vent my thoughts about the nights events.

I work for myself have for about 18 months, started my own heavy mobile mechanic company business has been good always busy etc.

My wife just lost her job due to being 9 months pregnant and they made her position redundant. So we are relying on my sole income from working for myself.

Stressful yeah but manageable.

Unfortunately that all brings us to tonight,

At about 0100 I hear my car start up and crash through my front fence and off it went.

All my work tools all my licenses access cards to places and my work laptop.

I was fully packed to go do a service in the morning leaving at 0500 so I prepared everything in the car in advance so I just had to get up shower and go.

Now I’m sitting here at home waiting to call insurance and see what little they will do for me regarding the vehicle and tooling.

My wife super stressed since being about to give birth any time now and no prospects for an income for either of us unless I go win the lotto and buy a new car and tools.

The car isn’t really a problem though, I mean it is but it’s the tools that I’ll miss the most. I can’t even go get a job working for someone else again without having tools to do my job. Really is a shit situation Unfortunately.

Anyway happy new year guys I hope everyone else’s year starts off better then mine so far

  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
    34·
    3 days ago

    Damn man sorry to hear that! Thats a shitty thing that’s happened to you. Understandable if you’re upset, angry, etc. how do you feel?

    One small idea, not sure if you’ve got renters insurance, but if so you may be able to claim your tools with that at least.

    Sorry again. Hang in there.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneOP
      27·
      3 days ago

      Yeah I’m very annoyed, less so about the car etc because it’s all replaceable in the end. My biggest concern is how i go about staying in business and keeping an income for the next few weeks.

      My wife is super stressed now especially since my house keys were in the car, so I’m sleeping on the couch by the door at the moment.

      Tomorrow we gotta get the door replaced all the locks and try get a new gate since they smashed the car through it