Brilliant Corners

You may have seen the stupid commercials where there’s some sort of important meeting—I think one is supposed to be a congressional hearing—and someone gets a note passed to them or a whisper in their ear. Then they stop the meeting to announce something like “Wow, I just saved a bundle on my auto insurance!” Well, that was me just a few days ago. Although I wasn’t in any important meeting, or in a stupid commercial.

For a while I've been thinking that our auto insurance premiums were too high, but I had no idea how high they were. My current policy was due for renewal on the 26th, so I thought it would be a good time to start looking around to see if I could find something better. I did find something much, much better. 425 dollars better.

I called up my current insurance agent and asked him what was going on and wondering why my premiums were so high compared to everywhere else. He couldn’t really answer, but said he'd “run some numbers” and see if he could get me a better deal himself. He couldn’t. He came kind of close, but nowhere near what Progressive and Geico and the like were offering.

So, I went with Progressive, who are going to save me about 850 dollars a year, and with much better coverage to boot.