Yet Another Car Accident
This morning, on my way to work, I was stopped at a stop sign when I was rear ended by a sliding car. It was nothing major; nobody was injured and there was no visible damage to the involved vehicles. We did swap the necessary information in case anything was to come of this but all in all it was just an inconvenience. And surprisingly, I didn’t get angry. It did, however, spark a trip down memory lane. Specifically the events that resulted in my car being banged up.
For instance, last fall there was a big hail storm that swept the city. I remember that night because it set off the fire alarms in my apartment block somehow. Anyway, my car ended up with over 2 grand in hail damage.
In winter of 2006, I was driving on the highway one night and a deer ran in front of my path. Actually, it wasn’t exactly running. It was just stopped there in the middle of the road. I put on the brakes but it did no good as I slammed into the poor animal. I remember the deer running into the nearby woods where I assumed it died of the injuries. I’m assuming that it died because of the noises it was making; it wasn’t pretty but it sure was loud. My car was totaled.
A couple of months before that happened, my car was the victim of a hit and run. I was at a buddy’s place and I had to park my car a block away. A drunk driver ended up nailing the front end of my car with his truck and then taking off. One of my friends who was outside having a smoke saw the whole thing but didn’t realize that it was my car until the truck took off. The fucking asshole was never caught and I was left to pay my deductible. There was $1,300 in damages.
During the winter of 2003 I was involved in a 3 car accident. My car was in the middle. It began by my car getting T-boned by yet another car that slid through a stop sign. Only this time I was hit hard; hard enough to send me flying 2 lanes down where I was hit by a van. I was taken to the hospital by my friends who happened to drive by and recognized my car. I was fine; just a headache for a couple of days. But my car sure wasn’t. I remember the passenger side was completely caved in and the rear bumper was decimated. Needless to say, that car never drove again.
I’ve also had my car stolen once and broken into twice but those stories deserve a post of their own.
Posted by Frank N. Stein
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