After weeks of haggling, the dealer finally won charging an extra $1,000+ not including tax, the day we went to pick it up. $19,088 for a car that I am comfortable in. Don't like the color but I'll get used to it. Seems like almost all cars are black, grey or white these days. Boring and really hard to find in a big store parking lot!! Start looking for a big horn decal to put on top the roof so I can spot MY dark car, lol! 2015 Prius
Thanks for all your help folks throughout the process. Got $10,627 from Travelers after haggling with them for two weeks. Also ended up paying $135 for my rental which exceeded insurance coverage. I just changed my daily rental to $40 from $30. You can't even get a car for $30/day anymore. Sheesh!
On the road again and basically happy!!!

Well, as I said earlier, PawPaw's farm was not too far and I was there often . On the farm was a little branch that held small puddles of water almost year round wit lotsa crawdads. PawPaw had a barb wire fence along the branch for the cows he ran there. I don't know when the fence was built, but when I was about seven in 1951, the fence was old. It was built of Bois D'Arc post and barb wire and at best was rickety. The cows would some times get out into the cotton field. One day, as I entered the lane leading to the branch I notice a battery with a brand new shiny wire on the fence. I followed the lane and the shiny wire all the way down to the branch where the fence turned and followed the branch. I had my string and bacon and I crawdaded for a while. In a couple of hours I had a bucket full of crawdads and start back up the lane to the barn and house. But, when I entered lane the shiny wire caught my eye again. What was that wire? I just couldn't figure this out. To this day I don't know why I did what I did next. Young and dumb I suppose. I pulled out my thing and I peed on the wire. Oh, My Good Lord, I knew that death was about to take me away. I was seven, I had never seen an electric fence before, how was I to know? It was a pain I had never felt before and haven't felt it again to this day. There was something I did learned that day. I learned I didn't want to be an electrician though. A few weeks after this, my cousin Steve from California came to visit for a couple of weeks. Steve was a month younger than me. I thought I'd have some fun. I'd get him to pee on the fence. But, try as I would, I could never got him to do it. I guess they teach their kids better in California than they do in Texas. What dumb things did you do?

Rather than bonnets, I have embraced the "LureLock" boxes. They have a "gel" lining on the bottom of the box on the inside. For both spinning lures, like Panther Martins and Roostertails, and crankbaits like Rapala and other "lipped baits", these boxes are stellar, imo.
The ability to place lures where you want them in a box, regardless of size or whatever metric you choose, and have them be right there when you next open the box....with no tangled mess, is worth the double $ they usually cost over typical "Plano" boxes. Even lures with marabou (feathers) are fine. The feathers might stick to the gel, but zero damage. And the fact that hooks can be "stuck down" without piercing anything is very practical,as well as kinda cool. I rarely even use the dividers supplied, though if you are gonna be just "tossing" the box around, might be an added separation factor for the good.
My problem with bonnets is that they are an added "pita", not only expense-wise, but often fall out, get lost, or ....and this actually happened....will be blown away in a stiff breeze. They look nice, certainly maintain the hook's tip, but just add to the plethora of "gadgets" that often clutter up your gear boxes.
For the typical "bass crankbaits" like "Booya" etc., the kind with the "house profile" or triangular blades and the wire spreader, w/skirt on the single-hook, I still hang them by their hooks in a box made for just that type of lure.

Only my personal opinion, but hey....you asked.

Years ago the wife and I were at our summer place in south central Ohio
We got up early to drive into town for eg mcmuffins and coffees
While driving the stretch of road that bounds the north end of the lake directly in the middle of my lane was the biggest snapping turtle I’ve ever seen! And I’ve seen my share of turtles having helped my neighbors for a couple of summers trap them when I was a kid
This thing was HUGE well in excess of 100 pounds
I swerved to miss it and decided to turn around for a closer look.
By the time we found a place to turn around and get back to it , two really disreputable looking guys were wrestling this thing in to the back of a small pick up .
Really struggling and trying to avoid its chompers.
It’s neck was easily as thick as mine , and I a pretty big guy.
Funny to watch. And no, I didn’t offer to lend a hand. No thank you.