poll of the day:

ok. so you all heard the pheasant story, right? if not, scroll down to a few days ago. part one: basically my folks aren't too keen on my driving. part two: we are probably going to trade my truck for our friends' truck in the next couple days.

ok, you know that feeling when you JUST HAFTA do something? well, on Christmas night i JUST HAD TO go muddin' and get my truck dirty one last time. so some of us piled into E's truck, and the rest of us climbed into mine. we cruised up a couple logging roads that all were dead ends before we found one with the gate open. then the good times started. as we headed in, i had very slight misgivings about the whole thing. "Ah, screw it.", i said to myself.

so we cruised and cruised, and succeeded in sufficiently dirtying the truck. then. then E decided to head up a 4-wheeler trail. i decided to follow him. my truck, however, is larger than his S-10, and FAR larger than a 4-wheeler. so we slid into a bit of a rut. no big deal, i just backed down. and slid. into a stump. the damage is minimal, but not really fixable. it's on the extended cab part of the truck, at the very bottom.

here's the actual poll: what do i do? my parents haven't noticed yet, thank god. so do i do the grown-up thing and just tell them? but they will freak out, probably call the insurance guy, which will raise my rates, ruin my perfect record, and very possibly total the truck. or do i just call the guy with whom we are trading vehicles? send him digital pics of the damage so he can decide? just pretend nothing ever happened...after all if my parents (who are anal about their vehicles) have gone two days without noticing, the damage isn't all that bad. and the guy wanted the truck even with a big dent on the other side (someone backed into ME, i wasn't even in the car), but i have since fixed that dent. SO maybe he'll just think that this dent is the same old one!

the good little catholic girl in me tells me to just announce my faults to the whole world. but i am also trying to avoid confrontation and stress. hmm. i want to look at all my options...fixing the problem on my own, with minimal spaz-time is optimal. so, what do you think? what is the preferred mode of action? is it ok to avoid the parental conflict/excitement? maybe i should just cruise down to some auto body place and see if there's anything they can do. argh.