Jul 21, 2005 10:17
Yeah so today marks a really really sad day for me. I mean I knew it was coming for the last few months, but the reality didn't sink in until today. I was supposed to be insured for one more month...we'd find it somwhere, I was told...just bc the one we have wont insure me anymore. Well, it was too expensive everywhere, and my dad put an ad in the paper to sell the one tangible gift I adored appreciated and care for more than anything else.
The first accident in December was a hit and run. Someone was in my lane around a curve on Highland, and to avoid them we went off the road. Simple? Not when you run into a bricked electrical box.
Costs were high so any more accidents within the next two years and they wouldn't insure me anymore. That's fine, I learned to drive responsibly and not neglect the road or driving even once, bc i realized whats on the line every time.
I'm driving down the interstate one day and I need to switch lanes. The lane next to me is completely clear, so I start switching. Three fourths there, a Ford who probably looked like effin 10 seconds before is about to merge RIGHT into me. So I hold the horn loudly, and stall my merge for 2 seconds so he could see I'm already there. He moved back, and things were fine.
What's NOT fine is the girl behind me who's going at least 90 mph down the lane i was in, and doesnt even wait for me to complete switching lanes. She's in such a hurry she's ready to pass me up, and the second I had to stall so the truck would see I'm merging, she had to swerve to the left to avoid rear ending me. Loses control of her car cuz of her excessie speed, and partially hits the wall. for the future,
1) slow the fuck down
2) wait for the person to finish swtiching lanes before u go ahead and pass them up
because of you i cannot drive for 3 years and lost my car. because of your negligence.
but honestly, if you learned from the incident like i learned from my first, i dont hold any hard feelings or any grudge against you at allll. im glad u were able to understand the potential for losing everythign with negligence to the road, like I did in my first time, and hopefully itd prevent anything that might have come in the future. its a blessing to learn a lesson without getting hurt.
but if you didnt learn anything and're still running around like that? argh.
at first i just somewhat wept at the fact that im losing my most prized, valued, and cared for materialistic possession. I was sad about the fact I won't drive for the prime years of my younger ages.
but it didn't take me long to realize i was being extreeeemely selfish. who am i to cry about losing a car when SO many people dont even have the opportunity to ever drive one, and some proudly earn theirs at a later age. forget losing a car, many people lose things much greater. i feel horrible for feeling bad or sad about losing just a car. i honestly feel selfishly horrible. i'm sorry, i am. God bless,
a very fortunate individual.