Wrecking My Car… Driving a Junker
So last Friday I wrecked my car in an odd series of events. While watching it all take place I simply could not do anything to avoid this incident. I was driving about 35 mph down Versailles Rd when someone two cars in front of me starts to turn into a gas station. The back half of his/her car was still out in the middle of the road and the girl in front of me stopped accordingly…or maybe just a bit too fast. She was driving a small sports car weighing around half of my car (if you know anything about momentum, you know what happened). She stopped about 3 times faster than my breaks could withstand and as I applied Herculean pressure to my tiny black pedal, the car simply acted as if on ice. I slid right into and under her car leaving my hood, grill (I sound gangsta), and radiator looking like that of an accordion. Luckily the cops and the tow company were right around the corner. The cop’s first question was “where is the other car” this seemed like a stupid question to me at first until I realized that they had pulled off unharmed into the turn lane. As the tow truck arrived he looked at my car and said “Prolly total itout” in which I looked at him and started it back up, he chuckled and started sweeping up the massive amounts of glass. I left discouraged and worried about making a car payment when I realized that there was probably a reason this guy was towing cars and couldn’t speak his native language, this guy didn’t know anything about cars and how they worked, every car he had ever seen was broken. So I took it to a mechanic (my future brother-in-law) and he says it’s fixable. Sadly enough it won’t have a latching hood, unless by a bungee chord, therefore I am officially driving a junker…hoorah
Bad News: you had a wreck.
Good News: you posted something.
haha get the word out… I tend not to post when I tell myself stories though t wirl is a good audience
Almost the same chain of events happened to me when I was in college, difference was I was driving my sister’s Honda CRV and I drove under a Ford F-150. It did total her car, which we were planning to donate to a fraternity for a charity car bashing anyway. The funny thing was her car had broken down so many times, the tow company knew us and the car. When he got there, he laughed and said “I guess this is the last time I’ll be seeing this one.” Sucks, I know!
coop! sorry to hear about the craziness on the road. that’s unfortunate. what is good, as taylor pointed out, is that you posted.
april 15, 2008 is world blog day, meaning that you have to post! do it. i dare you.