Matt On The Lamb

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I just got home from Christmas shopping. Man is Sugar Momma a slow shopper. I would blame it on her being sick but she has always been that way. I like to buy stuff and go. Actually it was nice to see Sugar Momma well enough to go shopping. She's gonna try to go into the office again tomorrow.

2010 Sugar Momma Health Watch Update

As far as the 2010 Sugar Momma health-watch - she went to a specialist today and he said she doesn't have asthma. I guess her esophagus is not working properly and stomach acids are backing up into her lungs so she cannot breath properly. Now she has to have surgery, non-evasive surgery, within the next two weeks and then she will supposedly be fine. I wish we had gone to this doctor first so she didn't have to take all of these medicines that did absolutely nothing. I was not at the appointment today because I had to pick Fabio up at school after the Winter Mixer. So my facts may or may not be 100% accurate but that's how I heard it and if it's wrong it's just slightly wrong.

I saw a Progressive television commercial today and it had a commercial for the new Tron movie within the Progressive commercial. How can there be a commercial within a commercial and how could I possibly have watched it? I was cleaning the kitchen while watching television and got stuck. Double whammy because that Progressive lady drives me batty. I liked her at first but not any more. I am sick of insurance all together - (we all say) I AM SICK OF INSURANCE!

I hope they have collision coverage

I have been going through an auto insurance ordeal for the last couple of months that I thought was done until I got the mail today. I received a letter from a collection agency today that says I owe Allstate Insurance a little over $1,400.; I have NEVER had Allstate Insurance. Here's what happened...I got a letter from Allstate Insurance in mid-November stating that I had been in an accident with a guy (name withheld by me). Firstly, I have had State Farm Insurance, not Allstate, since I was 18 and don't think I have ever had an accident to speak of and I may have had 3 tickets in 31 years (none in the last 20+) and you know that I am the best driver in the world (see previous blogs). Anyway, I called the number on the Allstate letter and left a message for the woman that it said that I should contact saying I did not have an accident. I heard nothing back. A couple of weeks later I received another letter and I called the number and left another message though her voice-mail this time said she'd be gone for a  couple of weeks. At that time I also wrote on the sheet that they sent me that I had been in no accidents and no one else had driven my cars and I mailed it to them on the postage-paid envelope they provided. I also called my State Farm agent at that time and told them what was going on and they said not to worry about it. Now, today I got the collection letter and I immediately took it to my agent and they thought it might be a scam and they gave me Allstate's 800 number to call. I called and was informed that supposedly I had been in a hit and run accident on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on October 15th at 6:17PM. That's the day that Sugar Momma, Fabio and I were on the way to Carbondale for family weekend at SIU with Splenda. We go south of  Rochelle on 39/51 and angle over from Bloomington to Champaign and then straight south...nowhere near Chicago. I have quite an alibi as, if necessary, I can produce gas station receipts and hotel receipts and dinner receipts and SIU bookstore receipts... for that entire weekend starting around the same time that I was supposed to have been hitting and running in Chicago. If I ever hit someone I would not run. That's why I have insurance..so I don't have to run. Now I have to go back to my agent tomorrow and take the original letter with my notes. Luckily I am the kind of CYA guy (Cover Your A$$) that documents everything. I think this still may be a scam but of the guy who filed the claim not of the insurance agency. I asked Jason at Allstate that if I supposedly hit and ran why did the police not contact me so I could have straightened it out with them or been arrested? He said Chicago police don't do that because they are too busy with other things. Sure, until I get pulled over for a taillight out or something and find that I have a warrant out for my arrest. I may be a fugitive...cool! Look for the one-armed Matt.

They'll never take me alive!

See why I have a blog? I am a story magnet. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...actually you do because I blog it all. I guess that's all I can blog today because "you're in good hands with MattInTheMiddle." I'll be on the lamb at my hideout but I will still blog from my get-away van down by the river. Sorry it's so long - another thing we can blame the insurance companies for. Have a nice Friday morning and I will blog you sometime throughout the day. TTTT...MITM (from an undisclosed location)