February 17, 2013
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I was in a car accident yesterday
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So, I got into a car accident yesterday
I was driving to the post office, and the building was on the left side. I was looking for a parking spot, because the parking lot was full. The lane was wide, but it was NOT a two lane street, so I was driving in the middle of my lane, and I was driving kind of slow, like 10-15 miles an hour… I saw a parking spot on the left side, on the street. I was going to turn left into the employee parking lot for the post office so I could turn around, and then parallel park on the street. There wasn’t any oncoming traffic, so I go to turn left, and BAM! My drivers side front scrapes along this other car that went OVER the DOUBLE YELLOW line, which means that you aren’t supposed PASS, in order to pass me on the left. What the FUCK. I wasn’t going fast enough for you or something? The speed limit is only 30 anyway!!
So we get out of our cars and he starts screaming at me, like it was my fault!! He tried to say that my car was all the way to the right, which it wasn’t, because if you looked at the broken glass on the road from my fog light, I hit him a few inches to the right of the double yellow line, meaning his car was almost completely over the yellow line, and my car was pretty much in the middle of the wide lane. So he screams at me for like 5 minutes, and I argued against him, calmly, and he goes, “Okay, do you want to deal with this through insurance,” and I said yeah, whatever. Which, that SHOULD have been my first clue that the asshole didn’t want the cops involved, because you’re always supposed to call them where there’s damage involved, because insurance companies like the police reports of the accident. So I turn to go get my insurance card, and the motherfucker gets in his car and fuckin drives off!!! He probably didn’t have insurance, AND he knew that it WAS his fault.
So I park in the post office parking lot, and call the cops and a police officer comes to make a report of the accident. He was very nice and everything, took pictures and details of the vehicle and the guy, which, I didn’t get a plate number, so the case itself is pretty much useless, except for helping my insurance claim. It will go on my record as not being my fault, so it shouldn’t raise my rates.
My fog light is a little broken, and from the end of my headlight until the wheel well of the car, it’s a little scraped up and dented, and the wheel has some scrapes on it. The side mirror is also busted off. Then when I started driving, I noticed that in order to drive straight, my steering wheel has to be rotated a little to left, and as I’m driving, it wants to pull to the left, and when I keep it straight, something in the steering mechanism ticks. It also feels loose to steer my car…it just doesn’t feel safe to drive. I got it home, though, and I have an appointment for an estimate at the service center that my insurance has.
The thing that really sucks is that I have a $500 deductible, and I’m not sure how I’m going to swing that. I have some candle orders that will help a little, and if some people could maybe grab a candle or two? That would certainly help! I listed some new things this morning in the shop:
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Comments (34)
yikes, glad you’re ok!
I am glad you are OK and that no one was hurt.
I’m so glad you’re ok
Send one to theo for me. Do you have a white flavor?
At least you are safe and unhurt.
glade you ok
Damn, glad you’re okay! Did he leave any of his car paint on your car? Maybe repair shops can keep an eye out for people of his color car looking for repairs that would match what would have happened to his car in the accident.
Ouch. That’s rough. Just bought some candles from you. Hope it helps a bit.
Effing asshole! But I’m glad that you’re okay.
At least you’re alright.
Sounds more like a fender bender than collision. Glad it wasn’t too bad. Last accident I was in, my friend totaled her car.
@BandoHobbit - @Erika_Steele - @LKJSlain - @buddy71 - @James2012 - @jasonwl - Thanks everyone..yes, I’m okay, but my poor car isn’t
@RulerofMasons - The vanilla candle is white. You can get one from the shop and I can send it to Dan instead of to you =]@randaness - It doesn’t look like there’s any paint on mine :/@randomneuralfirings - Thank you so much!! It definitely helps, yes
I’m getting those boxed up and they’ll be sent tomorrow ^_^@Marica0701 - I know!! I was so pissed…I was calling him worse names in my head, lol.@Dame_Delirium - Well, the definition of “totaled” in insurance terms is if the cost to repair the damage is greater than what the car is worth, which mine may very well be..it depends on how messed up the steering situation is and what exactly is wrong with it…I know some of those kinds of things can be really expensive, and my car isn’t worth much anymore because of it’s age…probably only a few thousand or something like that. And, it wasn’t *exactly* a fender bender because there wasn’t any fenders involved, lol. It sounds like your friend’s car may have been completely smashed, which would be really scary :/
@crazy2love - I guess I meant to say it didn’t sound scary and I’m glad it wasn’t that big of a deal. *shrug*
Boy this blog sort of makes me glad that I don’t drive. I hope there is no delayed reaction to the crash and you don’t suffer any later injury.
That does suck about your car. But I hope you’ve learned valuable lessons to apply in the future. If you could’ve gotten a plate number the insurance folks would’ve had something to go off of.
Any chance that jerk had NY/NJ plates since that typically how people drive around here?
I probably would have whipped my phone out like a mideval sword, called them up like an FBI informant, all after explaining the situation, and watch his face. There can only be one, biatch! Well, it’s not lie that is going to happen so quickly. I still have my learner’s permit.But…I’m glad to see that you are okay. Good luck with the money issue.
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Sorry to hear about the accident though. At least it wasn’t your fault though
. I can’t believe people just run off like that. It’s crazy.
You make candles? That’s pretty neat
I’m glad you weren’t hurt though. I guess the first thing I should do if ever in an car accident is grab a pen and paper and write down the license plate number in case the person runs off.
People just suck so much sometimes!! What a dickhead. Glad you’re ok though!
I am sorry about your accident. Hope things get better for you.
That sucks, but I’m glad you are okay. Not too long ago, we got hit and my wife’s van totalled. They had insurance, but it only paid half what the van was worth.
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Sorry about the accident! But at least it won’t go on your record.
Sorry to hear about your A-hole experience. Glad you stayed slow and safe though.
Glad to hear you weren’t severely hurt or anything, yikes!
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