[Noah930]

Grrr. OK, my turn to *****.

I was driving through a residential neighborhood at 7 am this morning when a German Shepherd ran out from a driveway and T-boned the 911 in the driver's door. I didn't even realize what I had hit; just that there was a loud "boom" from the left side of the car. I looked in the rear view mirror on the driver's door to see something brown tumbling. Huh? WTF? How did I miss something like a tree trunk or brown box in the middle of the road? And was that my jackpad cover bouncing down the street? I glanced in my windshield mounted mirror and noted a dog scampering off to the side of the road.

So I stopped to check on the dog. Some guy is in his driveway right where this all happened. Said there was no way I could have seen the dog, as it came running out of a long hedge-lined driveway. It wasn't his dog, but a stray.

So now there's a conglomeration of shallow dents in the driver's door. Not so much that you can look at the door and see them, but shallow like door dings that take just the right sight angle to visualize. There are two baseball-sized ones just under and aft of the rear view mirror, and another larger one (6-8") just above the jackpad receptacle. And there's a little downward bend to the piece of sheetmetal just below the jackpad hole.

Grrr. I'm thinking PDR. Apparently my insurance has no deductible, but there's a $1000 limit whereby if I go over $1000 in repairs it gets noted on my file, even if I'm not at fault. What a PITA.