Enjoying "Hamilton" Then Facing The Music

​   After the Sunday afternoon Chicago matinee of "Hamilton" a line formed behind the theater at the back stage door for the opportunity to talk to the actors, who would soon come out to mingle with their fans.

     However we opted to skip the line and just bask in the magic of the wonderful experience of having seen the musical.
​         Tommy, Emily, Justin and Maria decided to stroll around the Loop for a while, 

...while Callie, Theresa, and I headed back to the Holiday Jones to relax for a bit,

​ ...before hopping back on the "L" to Claire and Miguel's Logan Square neighborhood,

   ​...where we ran into the others,  who'd just returned, also via the "L,"  from downtown.

     So we all walked together to Claire and Miguel's house,

...where we dug into the tasty left-overs from our cook-out the day before.

​     In our family a party's not a party without some yummy "lefties" for later (see post from 3/11/2014).

     But as we all sat around enjoying that balmy Sunday evening, our last night together, I began to feel a nervous brewing inside, like wisps of internal storm clouds, as I realized that weekend was almost over and come Monday  we were going to have to face the music to the tune of we didn't know how much money and agita .for our injured car which we'd left at an Indiana garage the previous Friday evening (see post from 6/18/2017).

      The music arrived at 7:30 am the following morning in the ringing of Tom's cell phone, a call from the Indiana garage owner informing us that our car's under carriage was torn apart to the tune of at least $7,500 and three weeks or more in the repair shop.
       So at least we knew the prognosis.  And it didn't really seem so bad.   After all,  Tom and I reminded ourselves,  we'd walked away from what could have been a terrible accident miraculously unhurt, and as for the expense...so what, really?  We had the money in the bank to pay the $1,000 insurance deductible and another $1,000 for a rental car for three weeks.
       In fact what troubles me most about this event,  when I think about it, is the question of what we would have done if we didn't posses the means to give this story a happy ending, ..and  the troubling knowledge
that there are many struggling people out there who don't.

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