2020 keeps on 2020ing.

My wife traded in our old car that our daughter was using to Auto Nation when our daughter bought a less-used car from them. Before Auto Nation got the title transfer completed, someone got into an accident with that car, injuring several people and running away on foot. We apparently had left an old insurance card in the car, so a claim was filed against our insurance.

Thank you, Auto Nation.

No problem, since my wife had called our insurance company and told them to take the car off the insurance they day she sold it, right? Turns out they also didn't complete the paperwork, so the car was still on our insurance.

Fortunately they had a record of our request and the date of it, and Auto Nation gave us a copy of the paperwork to give them, so it should all be ok. It only took repeated phone calls and multiple hours for my wife to get it all -- we hope -- straightened out.

Not sure what the actual status of ownership of that car was at the time of the accident. We traded it in because the blue book value was a few hundred and it needed a minimum of $1500 worth of work to repair oil and gas leaks. So did Auto Nation dump it quickly on some low-life who couldn't afford better and also couldn't afford insurance? Did someone steal it? Did an Auto Nation employee go for a joy ride? We'll probably never know. And that's ok, as long as the claim against our insurance goes away.