Who else got into an accident today :( :( :( :(
PART ONE
I'm a fucking idiot for waiting so long to get my snows on. Not that it would have mattered.
I fucking was driving SOOOOOOOO carefully this morning; slower and more careful than I have EVER driven in my life. I took my sweet fucking time getting to work this morning; 1.5 hours vs. normal 20 minutes.
I'm at the home fucking stretch, literally 30 seconds away from my office parking lot at 404 and Highway 7. As I'm travelling west on Hwy 7 right through the 404 overpass, there's a traffic light right there, where people exit off the 404 southbound.
It's green and we're all cruising at like 50 km/h. Then, as the stupid fucking lady in front of me is about to approch the intersection, the light turns amber and I'm expecting her to go through as it IS fucking ice and snow everywhere and she was literally 10-15 meters away from the light.
No. She slams the brakes and comes to a stop. I wasn't expecting this so like a second later after having my foot on the gas, I react.
But it was too late. I slid right into her ass with no place to turn. Car on my left and I was in the right lane with no room on the right.
I fucking blanked out and just braked and prayed I would stop, but I didn't stop early enough. I went right under her bumper (Nissan Pathfinder) and now am left with $5000 of damage. New hood, new right headlight, new bumber, and new fender.
Why didn't I take out the suspension and just ram the car into the side? Why didn't I leave more space between me and the other car (I was only about 10 meters away)? Why did I have to damage the other love of my life?!?!?!
Cale, I'm in an emotionally unstable state right now so PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE no quips about the Prelude It's a '97 so it's only worth about $7k and the damage is fucking $5k.
Lessons learned:
1) no matter how careful you think you are being you can never be careful enough
2) leave 10 fucking carlengths of space between you and the car ahead of you in the snow, whether you're wearing snows or not
3) PUT YOUR FUCKING SNOWS ON FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST FORECAST!!!!!!! 
My beloved TAs, can you please make me feel better right now? I've never been so depressed, not even when I get into bitter fights with my family or fiancee. My poor car didn't even do anything wrong. It was all my fault 
P.S. Swamper please don't ban me for the damage I did to the best car in the whole wide world. 
PART TWO
So I get out and check out my disaster and I go, shaking my head and completely overcome with guilt (even though I strongly believed that lady shouldn't have stopped in that circumstance)...she didn't even look in her rear-view when I was honking like a crazy mofo for about 3 seconds, the time I had as I was quite a ways behind her--I'm sure it was 20 meters, not 10.
Anyway, I walk up and she didn't speak a word of English. Her Nissan had practically no damage to its bumper, just a few scratches and some red from my paint. So she just says it's all okay and notes my license plate and drives off.
I was so fucking depressed that I didn't even write down her license plate, or get any info. I just couldn't believe what I did to my beloved car.
Further proof of how stupid I am. 
PART THREE
And I was in SUCH A FUCKING GOOD MOOD this morning. I had a super-important presentation I was supposed to give to a Regional Vice President (my boss's boss) and I was totally prepared and dressed to the nines, and just thankful for my blessings...
Sometimes, I'll randomly be really thankful for what I have in life. My family, my religion, my education, career, my CAR...and I'll just be cruising along at the speed limit, thinking I'm such a good, law-abiding citizen. I know it's gay but that was exactly the moment I was in when the accident occurred.
What a fucking joke! 
I don't know how I kept my composure but the presentation went really well, to the point that the RVP congratulated me and said with my permission he'd like to share my presentation with the other VPs in the GTA. That was nice, but I'm still so fucking depressed about my car 
I'M SO PATHETIC!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY please put me out of my misery 
Last edited by on Dec-10-2005 at 00:57
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