I forget who's blog I read earlier in the semester about that unique breed of drivers who feel the necessity to multi task behind the wheel. I think it was in an in class assigment that we had to correct actually, but that's besides the point. What I am trying to get at is that my girlfriend belongs to that breed and tonight i suffered the consequences of her distracted actions.
Im sitting in the library passing time waiting for my 6:00 class to start when I recieve a phone call from what sounded like a danzel in distress. Sobbing, chocking and crying is all that i could make out on the other end of the line. After repeating "hello baby" almost 5 times, I finally heard from what i could make out through the tears and sobs, "Baby....(sob sob)....mad....(sob sob) your car!" Though i didn't hear a damn thing she said i just put one and one AND one lol together; she has my car, she can not drive, and she is balling. She got in an accident.
At first i was panicing because i thought it was major and i knew she also had my brother in the car, but after talking to her and eventually talking to my brother, who was extreamly calm like he always is, i realized they were fine.
My brother had to speak on her behalf becasue she couldn't controll her crying. Basically she rear ended a SUV during rush hour. My car being a civic ofcourse got smashed and the SUV (literaly guys no joke) walked away with nothing but surfacew damage, not even a dent!
Well come to find out that the reason she ended up driving my car into the back of an SUV is because of a CELL PHONE. SHe was replying to an incoming text and while she briefly looked down, traffic had come to a stop and consequently she couldn't stop in time. It only takes that 1 second of diverting your time from the road to something else to end up in an accident. Thank God that nobody was hurt, but this is just another testimony on how dangerous it is to text and drive. It left me carless.
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Let us take an alternative look on the situation though! Perhaps (while it is most likely not the case) if she had not rear-ended the SUV a giant semi could have rear-ended her! Maybe that extra 2 ft forward saved her life and your brother. Or, maybe even worse, the weight of the car on those particular dimensions of the road could have been just enough to form a sink-hole, and instead of some damage to your car the result could have very well been the total destruction of your car and perhaps horrible injuries to both her and your brother. Perhaps it was fate? Hmm?
ReplyDeleteMarailnot, things can ALWAYS be worse. Justifying anything by trying to say how it could have been worse is silly. Though your ideas are immensly humorous, and I hope to take it as that was how you meant it. I'm sure his girlfriend will own up to her mistake, and it was pretty bad, and bad luck too. I am one of those awful people who sometimes answers a text while driving, though I have never been in an accident yet for any reason. I try to only answer when stopped though, and other than that have been very lucky. Now I think I will not text for a long time while driving. It was too potent an example why not to.
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