Voluntary Surrender

My crunched up car has just been taken away to be returned to the dealer where I bought it. I must say that everyone involved in the process of recovering it was quite professional. You normally wouldn't expect such professionalism from a lender repossessing a car and the recovery company they hired.

It's good to have that eyesore gone and to have my garage back. It's one less item I have to report on the assets section of my bankruptcy petition. And one less secured loan that I have to worry about. The debt will now be easily discharged.

I took my son outside to watch the men hooking the car up to the truck. He asked, "They fix it, then it works?" I explained to him that it was being taken back where Daddy bought it. Talking with one of the men in the truck, I told him my son would have been more excited if they had brought a large tow truck. He told my son that the type of truck they brought is called a "sneaker." Which, of course, means they can pull up in it in the middle of the night, hook up a car, and sneak off with it. It literally took less than ten minutes for them to hook up and be gone, and I can see how it could have been much faster if they needed to be stealth.