Just not meant to be....

Tonight was one for the books. Ronnie and I have been in the process of buying a new car. We picked it out last Wednesday. We picked it out knowing that it was "on its way" to the dealer but may not make it there until morning. With the crisis in Japan, so few Honda's are coming to the dealers and we had to jump on the chance. We weren't terribly crushed as they gave us a nice rental for free.

But it did not come in the next day.
Instead, it had to be detoured because of the [almost] Hurricane in the Gulf. So it would be in by Friday or Saturday.

But it didn't.
Instead it was detoured via the rail system and would be possibly five more days.

But, much to our surprise, it came in this evening!
Ronnie and I hurried to the dealership to pick up our new red car.

But...
when we were just two minutes from the dealer, our salesman called with an odd tone in his voice. "I don't know how to say this, but...."
OUR CAR HIT A DEER.
A tech guy went to fill up the car before we signed the papers and on the way, HE HIT A DEER. The car was ruined and we could not purchase it. The only one.

The dealers were really apologetic and everyone was gathered around the computers looking for options, but truth be told, they did not know if or when they could get another red CRV.

They did however have two more that came in the with the shipment in a different color. So we went to look. I liked the "urban titanium" version quite well so we agreed to purchase it despite it being not quite as bold as I had hoped the red would be.

I'm sure we will be quite happy with our new purchase. Obviously, the red version was just not meant to be.