Definition of procrastination

Less than a month after I bought my new (new for me anyway) minivan, back in January of 08, I managed to scrape off the passenger side mirror on a circus truck. Which sounds wierder than it was, since it happened to be a Barnum & Bailer tractor trailer parked outside the Mariner Arena in Baltimore. Fortunately a bit of duct tape kept me going until I could find the time to bring it in for repairs. Said time got increasingly distant when the repair shop gave me a $300+ quote for parts and labor.

The situation became a touch more fraught when the repeated duct tapings finally failed and the mirror dissapeared somewhere enroute from my house to the local PetSmart. So I bit the bullet and bought a new after market mirror from eBay in July and for the past month have been losing hairs as I merge into traffic on I-395.

Finally I made it up to my brother-in-law's house and he helped me install it (ie: did all the work while I kibitzed) today. Total installation time, including electrical connections, 15 minutes, zero dollars. Parts cost $34 plus $17 shipping.

Time to affect repairs: Twenty months.