Monday, December 17, 2007

Oh. My. God. You will never believe what happened to me.

See, I was going Christmas shopping and I got this gift for my grandmother and this car -- mall security believe it or not -- came tearing around the corner and slammed into me. So, that's it. I'm dead. Mowed down by mall security!

No, I'm kidding. I thought Sue would appreciate it though. :-P

Anyways, to start off with my life since Thanksgiving.....
I got back and immediately started hardcore prepping for tech week for my short play that I was directing. Tech week came and went and my show was good, if I do say so myself. It hit a few bumps in the road on the way there, but it was good.

One of those bumps in the road, however, was a bump in the road for all areas of my life.
You see, it snowed and iced in the middle of tech week. And driving home from school, I slid off the road and into a speed limit sign. Ironically enough, I wasn't going as fast as the sign said.

The car won't even begun being worked on until January. As you can imagine this has caused several headaches. How was I gonna get home for Christmas and New Year's??? We worked it out though! I have this rental (we have rental on our insurance!), and I am taking that home to Rhode Island!!!! I'm going home!!!!
Tomorrow, actually.

Anyways, it's been a nightmare trying to get this sorted out. But all's well that ends well, right? Right!
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2 comments:

Sue said...

That is so weird! I slid my car off the road on my way back to work from home one year just after I graduated from college and I WAS going over the limit! but the trooper decided not to give me a ticket because I totaled my VW Dasher and he figured that was enough punishment. I was not hurt. I spun out on some slush that had formed when snow blew across the otherwise clear road. The car hit guard cables with every corner as it spun 360 degrees and those cables cut into the car right up to the engine block, then the car hopped over the cables and hooked the exhaust pipe, gutting the exhaust system up to the manifold. So it was totally fucked. I was completely unharmed but totally humiliated. So, I called my Mom and told her that I had an accident and broke the lights on my car. I didn't want her to worry.

Later when I told her that the insurance company totaled the car, she said "But you told me you only broke the lights!" To which I said "Yeah, but all of the lights."

I was so young and stupid. So that is the story of my first MVA. Sigh. Live and learn. Then I took it to the Porsche/Audi dealership and the owner told me that they make cars every day that I cannot afford and he had a customer that bought a brand new top of the line Audi and flipped it end over end, totaling it, but lived. He said that the important thing is to live and be unharmed. That cars are just a big hunk of metal and can be replaced, we cannot.

8:31 AM, December 18, 2007
Steve said...

You had me at 'hardcore.' Sorry to hear about the car, but glad you've got the holiday trips worked out.

4:15 PM, December 18, 2007

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