So far, May has been a month of endings:

• Enterprise and Jack and Bobby broadcast their final episodes
• Episode III finally arrived, bringing the saga to a triumphant middle (or so I’ve been told — Jeff’s seen it, but we won’t until Sunday)

And now our 2002 Prius has come to the end of the road. The insurance company called this afternoon — the estimate from the body shop had reached $13,000, and they hadn’t even taken the dashboard off yet, so they decided to total the car. I wasn’t surprised, but I’m still not happy about it. We’ll find out next week how much they’ll pay us for the car, and whether they were able to rescue the CD that was in the player.

I had hoped that if the car was going to be totaled that they would have told me yesterday, because Kehillah was auctioning a 2005 BC at the first annual gala, and we would have bid. But we didn’t know, and decided to be optimistic that the 2002 could be fixed. Oh, well; if we had bought, we would have wound up with two silver Priuses, and that might have been confusing.

We’re now on the queue for a Seaside Blue 2005 BC, and I will be calling more dealers over the weekend in hopes that there’s one available in the wild.

This morning, I visited Hertz and swapped the Cavalier for a Prius. I am much happier, even though the car is missing some of the bells and whistles that our new Prius has (like the Smart Entry/Smart Key system, the navigation system, and Bluetooth). But it’s wonderful being able to sit in the car without hurting!

And the insurance company called me — they needed me to contact the towing company to have the car moved to the body shop of my choice. Since I have no body shop experience, I asked them for a suggestion, and they suggested Swanson Collision Repair, which, by strange coincidence, is in the same building as Hertz. So I called the towing company, who told me I’d have to come in and sign a form before they could move the car; fortunately, they were only a few blocks away. And as long as I was there, I grabbed everything I could out of the car (including one of our garage door openers!), and took a picture of the damage:

I’m waiting to hear whether they’ll repair the car or not. I hope they let me know soon.