Damn Cats :(

[Riksta]

At around 5am this morning I was heading home from a LAN, along a nice stretch of highway (80k/hr zone).

I'm sitting on 80k/hr in the left lane, and I notice a cat in the right hand lane that had literally come from nowhere. Now, instead of doing something smart like waiting for me to pass, or heading towards the island in the centre of the road (two lanes each way with a couple of meters of island between), it absolutely BOLTS into the left hand lane (I don't think I have EVER seen an animal move so damn fast). Before I even have a chance to react, I hear "thud" on the bumper and felt something also hit my drivers side rear wheel.

Having the C2R/Havoc kit on my car, its put a fair crack near the driver's side foglamp and scratched it a little bit. I'm not happy. You might remember my previous post about scraping the underside of the kit parking against a gutter, I'm thinking now when I get some money together I'll get the scrape fixed as well as this cat-induced injury to my pride & joy. Unfortunately I don't have a permanent job, I just do temp/contract type jobs for an agency, and I'm out of work at the moment.

I'll see if I can get some photos up tomorrow, I guess its not really that bad - it could have been worse (kangaroo/cow/moose/ex girlfriend etc) that I hit, I guess I'm lucky it was only a small cat. Let's just say that to the people who know what they're doing repairing these kits, It'll probably just buff out! Also, I don't know the way the airbags work, but I was doing 80 when I hit so its probably a good thing it didn't hit a sensor!

Anyway, that's my slight rant for the night. Hopefully it won't cost me too much to get it back to the way it was!