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I hate Murphey.
as in, Murphy's law of life. you all know what i mean... its the one that says "you need to get somewhere in five minutes, and you'd be able to do any day no problem except for the fact that today its important so you get stuck at all the lights and a cop pulls you over so your late" law.
Today was the first day i had to pay my new school payment. 100 a month, seems reasonable problem was today was also the first day i could get to the bank and the first day of the week and i happened to be working from 10 am to 3 at one job and 4pm to close at the other job. k, fact 1: its Monday so its quite easy to theoretically get home before midnight. fact 2: that hour between jobs is great for depositing checks, we do it on this day in that hour quite often. its practically clock work. thing is since it was important today to get this taken care of and paid for, i made sure to tell Sonja yesterday that this is what needed to happen.
Ok heres where Murphy comes and bites me in the proverbial ass.
We get to the bank fine, we get the checks in fine, we get to work fine, we get outta work no trouble.. i even got an hours nap in while waiting for my sister's shift to finish, seeing as she's my ride home. spending these last moments chatting with my friend who busses at olive garden, which is the second job. i offer him a ride seeing as he has none and were going in that general direction anyways so why not.
k, now we need more facts... fact 1: Sonja drives fast. and has road rage. Fact 2: she wasn't under the influence of any drugs or alcohol after work today... which is also important.
k, so we drop of eric, after stopping for my brother in law's beer and some gas, and head home. its now 10:40ish? no problem so far definatly getting home before midnight right?
.....
then we saw the brake lights. my sister, after cresting a hill to see a sudden stop slams on the brakes however it doesn't look like we'll make it. so she moves to pull around the stopped car...
so now where has our sense gone? the car is stopped for a reason... why might you ask? perhaps cuz the car in front of it is turning left. yes... left... which happens to be the same side in which were pulling around the stopped car. oh shit. what to do, were going to collide. basically.
my sister in a last valid attempt to sneak past this car speeds up managing, instead of going nose to nose with this vehicle, to cause us to collide where the passenger side, where i am, is where they run into us and we, still trying to slide by, scrape off their bumper.
i believe it is this act that saved both cars. the other car, from here on referred to as "car B" where my car is A, only loses its bumper. the head lights are ok and the engine appears to be ok as well. our car however >___< its awful. the passenger side door is dented so bad it pops when you open it. there is no way to open it from the outside, because the handle is crushed. the paint is scraped basically from nose to rear passenger door, and the collision threw out the alignment more the it already was. you can't put the window down.
i will not forget the sound of that crunch. i hear it loud and clear reverberating in my right ear.
i was sitting right there... had we been going faster... it coulda been bad.
they decided to settle it without the insurance getting involved. my sister takes full responsibility... but now we have car B to fix as well as car A.. and we just really didn't need this stress right now... not with everything else >___<
i needa go to sleep though, im calling into work tomorrow to help watch the kids so they can run damage control. o___o hopefully my sore body will be better tomorrow. i think i tensed up a whole bunch when i saw it all happening...
when i remember it, it feels like i was outside the car watching it all happen in slow motion.
were all mostly glad that no one was hurt. my sister still wonders where her brain went i bet.
as in, Murphy's law of life. you all know what i mean... its the one that says "you need to get somewhere in five minutes, and you'd be able to do any day no problem except for the fact that today its important so you get stuck at all the lights and a cop pulls you over so your late" law.
Today was the first day i had to pay my new school payment. 100 a month, seems reasonable problem was today was also the first day i could get to the bank and the first day of the week and i happened to be working from 10 am to 3 at one job and 4pm to close at the other job. k, fact 1: its Monday so its quite easy to theoretically get home before midnight. fact 2: that hour between jobs is great for depositing checks, we do it on this day in that hour quite often. its practically clock work. thing is since it was important today to get this taken care of and paid for, i made sure to tell Sonja yesterday that this is what needed to happen.
Ok heres where Murphy comes and bites me in the proverbial ass.
We get to the bank fine, we get the checks in fine, we get to work fine, we get outta work no trouble.. i even got an hours nap in while waiting for my sister's shift to finish, seeing as she's my ride home. spending these last moments chatting with my friend who busses at olive garden, which is the second job. i offer him a ride seeing as he has none and were going in that general direction anyways so why not.
k, now we need more facts... fact 1: Sonja drives fast. and has road rage. Fact 2: she wasn't under the influence of any drugs or alcohol after work today... which is also important.
k, so we drop of eric, after stopping for my brother in law's beer and some gas, and head home. its now 10:40ish? no problem so far definatly getting home before midnight right?
.....
then we saw the brake lights. my sister, after cresting a hill to see a sudden stop slams on the brakes however it doesn't look like we'll make it. so she moves to pull around the stopped car...
so now where has our sense gone? the car is stopped for a reason... why might you ask? perhaps cuz the car in front of it is turning left. yes... left... which happens to be the same side in which were pulling around the stopped car. oh shit. what to do, were going to collide. basically.
my sister in a last valid attempt to sneak past this car speeds up managing, instead of going nose to nose with this vehicle, to cause us to collide where the passenger side, where i am, is where they run into us and we, still trying to slide by, scrape off their bumper.
i believe it is this act that saved both cars. the other car, from here on referred to as "car B" where my car is A, only loses its bumper. the head lights are ok and the engine appears to be ok as well. our car however >___< its awful. the passenger side door is dented so bad it pops when you open it. there is no way to open it from the outside, because the handle is crushed. the paint is scraped basically from nose to rear passenger door, and the collision threw out the alignment more the it already was. you can't put the window down.
i will not forget the sound of that crunch. i hear it loud and clear reverberating in my right ear.
i was sitting right there... had we been going faster... it coulda been bad.
they decided to settle it without the insurance getting involved. my sister takes full responsibility... but now we have car B to fix as well as car A.. and we just really didn't need this stress right now... not with everything else >___<
i needa go to sleep though, im calling into work tomorrow to help watch the kids so they can run damage control. o___o hopefully my sore body will be better tomorrow. i think i tensed up a whole bunch when i saw it all happening...
when i remember it, it feels like i was outside the car watching it all happen in slow motion.
were all mostly glad that no one was hurt. my sister still wonders where her brain went i bet.