Tuesday/ broken side mirror

So .. how did this happen? (Broken rear view mirror on the driver side of my venerable 1996 Toyota Camry Driving Machine).  Well, it really wasn’t my fault .. I had the car parked flush to the curb while I was at dinner on Friday night.  When we arrived back at the car, I noticed the damage.  The perpetrator left a note and a phone number on the windshield, though, explaining that she clipped the mirror while driving, and damaging it.  (Which I really appreciated.  It makes a big difference knowing it was an accident and the person is owning up to it, as opposed to me thinking it was a random act of vandalism). She will send me a check for the damage.  The Toyota garage is ordering a new mirror and housing.  There are only two such mirrors with metallic blue housings left in the country, said the spare parts guy.  Which makes me wonder what I would have done if there had been none.  The options would have been 1. Pick another color. (Maybe);  2. Go hunt in scrap yards for blue 1996 Toyota Camrys. (No); 3. Do nothing. (No);  4. Use it as an excuse to get a new car?  The straw that broke the camel’s back. (Maybe!).