SHIT

[rynne]

I did not need this. I SO did not need this. And I don't know HOW THE HELL IT HAPPENED.

Okay. So a couple weeks ago my friend Rachel calls me to ask if I could come to her party tonight. And last night she calls me to ask me if I could buy a couple liter-bottles of soda. I said sure, I could pick it up on the way home from work.

So I go to work today, and coming home, I pull into a parking spot in the little shopping center just down the hill from where I live. I buy the soda, go out to my car, everything's fine. I'm pulled in straight, and the people on either side of me are pulled in straight, though a little close to the line.

Then I start backing out--straight--and I see I'm close on one side, and pull back into the space and try to correct myself. Only somehow it kept getting worse each time I tried to correct myself, and my back bumper hit a glancing blow on this other person's (parked) car.

Bad enough, right?

Then I pull forward to get away from the car so we can look at damage (the owner of the car just came out), and somehow in pulling forward, I hit the back bumper of the other person's car.

So both owners were standing outside yelling about how I shouldn't be driving and demanding to see my license and insurance when the other person was looking at it and calling insurance companies and I was just standing there trying not to start bawling in the parking lot because this is my second accident in less than a year and my insurance is going to skyrocket and I DON'T KNOW HOW THE HELL IT HAPPENED. I just don't.

I'm also really tempted to blame my friend for asking me to buy her soda when it's her job as hostess to get it, only this was somehow my fault, and even if I don't know how it happened, I have to pay the price.

I didn't need this. I really didn't need this. Shit shit shit shit shit.

Comments

[antosha-c.livejournal.com]

This was an utter brain-fart.

Please forgive me; I was actually beta-ing someone entirely different's story.

I hope the rest of your evening was a vast improvement over the afternoon.

:blush:

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's all right. It just gave me a bit of a "WTF?" moment :p. And thanks, it was.

[antosha-c.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad.

I may be old, but I'm not quite senile yet. :nods:

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I'm sorry, Rynne. They shouldn't have been that rude, although it is understandable. You have my emotional support. *sends hugs to Rynne*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Sigh. The worst thing is my insurance, though...But thanks!

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Not really anything I can say, except that I feel for you and lots of virtual hugs are being sent your way.

Also, try to have fun at the party anyway?

*more hugs for good measure*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

I had fun at the party. :) Thanks for the virtual hugs; I needed those.

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I totally understand about insurance, I just hope that the damage isn't too high and maybe you should call you insurance and talk to them about it. I've been there. :(

[rynne.livejournal.com]

The damage is less than $1000 for both cars put together, thankfully, and my car just has a few new scratches on the bumpers. Probably won't make that much of a difference with the insurance, though.

...I love that icon.

*hugs*

[anya-writer.livejournal.com]

Sorry that you had such a bad experience. Really, though, the other drivers were idiots for ganging up on you.

Re: *hugs*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much the drivers, though I wanted to yell at them when one kept saying "Give me your license" and the other one had it. That was momentary. It's my insurance that's the worst part...

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* Oh, that royally sucks. Those guys who yelled at you were jerks. I mean, accidents happen and no one was hurt. *hugs you more* I'm so sorry that happened.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Accidents happen, yes, but the first one I was in, I knew what I should have done to prevent it, and this one I didn't. I thought I was doing everything all right...right up until my bumper scraped the other person's car. But it wasn't so much the drivers as my insurance rate that's bothering me most about this. Thanks for the hugs, though!

[elfianjoy.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* That sucks, so very much. I'm sorry.

[troubadour118.livejournal.com]

*offers hugs and Spellotape! with which to fix cars* :(

[sheryll.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Accidents are accidents. Some people just don't get that. Don't let the behaviour of jerks get you down.

[vixenette.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor you! That sucks! I've gotten in quite a few (ahem) accidents in my lifetime, but no one has ever yelled at me or insulted my driving or anything. The very first accident, the guy was even really nice to me. Maybe it was because I just looked young and scared. I think I was 18 or so, though.

But I'm sorry that it happened. You really CAN'T blame Rachel, since you DID agree, but it still sucks that it was something that was unintentional. It's why their called accidents, though - no one plans for them to happen.

Gah, I wish I could do something for you to make you feel better. Accidents take a lot out of me, emotionally, so I know how you must be feeling. :(

Could I offer you anything? A ficlet? A beer? (heh) A plane ticket to Atlanta so that you could come to Dragon Con with me? :P

*hugs*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

The first accident, the guy was really nice to me too, and that one was worse than this one.

I know I shouldn't blame Rachel, but I can't help being a bit resentful. *sigh*

Plane ticket to Atlanta would be nice...couldn't make it to Dragon Con without missing school, though. Damn.

[latentfunction.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry. Definitely been there, too. Wrecks are no fun at all, especially when they're something like that, that you feel like you shouldn't have done at ALL. (In a Target parking lot, I hit the car next to me when I was backing out. I got my truck, like, stuck to the side of their car. Like, when I tried to move it away, it just got more stuck, and I had to sit in the parking lot for like 20 minutes waiting for my dad to come and unstuck it. Not fun.)

[chessie-reeves.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Sorry to hear about the accident. *sends more hugs*

[genarti]

*hugs*