Unfuckingbelievable
TWICE. Fucking TWICE in just over a month. I have owned this car less than 4 months, and everybody on the road knows it, because they’re all out to destroy it for me.
Bonnie’s over tonight, and we’re watching Wallace & Gromit, having some popcorn, it’s shaping up to be a pretty nice evening. Unfortunately, I had to run to the store to pick up some shampoo and a couple other things for tomorrow morning. It’s all downhill from here, and unfortunately, my car was parked at the bottom of it.
I took Hobbes along for the ride because he doesn’t get out much, and I even picked him up a bag of snacks. Everything was going nicely until about 3/4 of the way home when I saw a car stopped up ahead with its hazards on. Something was laying in the street as well. A dog had been hit. Well, I love dogs. I couldn’t just sit there and do nothing about it. I had to park and get out and stand around and do nothing about it. After about 10 minutes, several cars had stopped and animal control was on the way to remove the dog from the middle of the street and get it to a vet. Oh, as far as I know, the dog is fine by the way. 30 minutes…30 minutes I’m standing out in the FREEZING cold petting this dog until animal control shows. They manage to heave the poor guy into the back of a truck, and the first guy that had stopped (the lady that hit the dog kept going…only to return about 15 minutes later) even donated his quilt to the dog so it wouldn’t be cold in the back of the truck. It was all very touching.
It was also a good thing that guy donated his quilt to that dog because he was going to be stuck in the back of that truck for at least an additional 30 minutes because as soon as I got into my car and started buckling up, the first thing the animal control truck did was back right into my car, smashing the rear driver’s side door.
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FUCK!!!! I have NEVER been in a car wreck in my life, but apparently that was only because I was driving a shitty ‘93 Tracer that I didn’t have to WORK to pay for. Now I have a vehicle I appreciate. I actually maintain the fluids in it. There isn’t 3 months’ worth of fast food wrappers on the passenger side floor. Hell, I’m actually even a little PROUD of it, and everybody else on the fucking road wants to ruin that for me!
Fortunately, since this was a city vehicle, they’re paying for damages. At least, I’m ASSUMING that. I have no idea how it works…they just took a bunch of pictures and about 30 minutes later told me I could go. I better be getting a call very soon about it because my car looks like absolute shit now.
What sucks is one of two things can happen to make this even worse: I have the money now, but my insurance payment was late this month. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a tiiiiiny little window of opportunity in which my insurance wasn’t effective? Or no, get this one: I haven’t QUITE gotten around to filing the accident report from the last bastard that ruined my day. And paintjob. Wouldn’t it be AWESOME if there were some legal complication surrounding that? I swear, the entire rest of the ride home, I knew for sure I was going to hit a dog. I couldn’t WRITE slapstick that good. Oh wait, I just did.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:46 am
You know you can go to jail for not filling out an accident report. Trust me, I did hard time for the same mistake.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:13 am
It’s only been a month. Yours was like…a year.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:49 am
…this is true
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:24 pm
*laughs* @ Chuck
Whenever you get in an accident, you should always file a car accident report to the police. Even if it’s something minor. That way, the police will have a legal accident report. You should also call your insurance agent as soon as possible.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Chuck’s accident wasn’t really…minor.
Also, if somebody approaches you and tries to make YOU gay, tell a teacher, policeman, or clergyman right away.
March 23rd, 2006 at 1:57 am
I don’t think paying late qualifies as an insurance lapse, I think insurance is like electricity; it’s not gone until someone gives you a red piece of paper and duct-tapes all of your light switches to the ‘off’ position. Also… it sucks that a guy that kicks puppies and clubs baby seals for a living turned out to be not just evil, but also incapable of operating a vehicle. Sorry dude.
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:15 pm
A guy that kicks puppies? He was doing his job by helping out a dog that was hit by a car…and when in the fuck was there ever a baby seal in WYOMING? It sucks that Bill’s car got hit, but fucking christ, cut Metro a little bit of a break. If that guy is so fucking evil, why the fuck isn’t Chris W. adopting the shit out of puppies and seals? I think he’s just as fucking evil. I would, but I’m not allowed to have animals at my property. Also, I think it depends on your insurance company, cause I sure as shit know it isn’t “like electricity” but they might cut you slack on your first cause of accident, like this…”When you make a claim on your first at-fault accident, you might not see any increase in your auto premium at renewal time. This practice — sometimes known as forgiveness — is not industry-wide, so if your insurance company holds your rate steady, consider yourself lucky.” Bill got in one accident that was “his fault” but this one wasn’t. He shouldn’t have to worry about it, and if he does decide to worry about it, he should worry about his car being fixed by the city and not his insurance rate going up from this wreck. Chris W. is a shitfuck.
March 24th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Haha, you’re an idiot, Shawn.