Gather round kiddes, it's story time.
Maybe if I tell this here I won't have to tell it again. Remember I absolutely love Amelia Cragle and her Mom, and her whole family.
So this morning I take the sunfire to go and pick up Brian-Ryan, then I picked up George. My next stop was Amelia's, after Amelia's I was supposed to get Lauren. I pull into Amelia's Driveway and beep my horn so she knows I'm there, then I put my car into park so I don't have to keep my foot on the break. Kevin decides he's going to let Amelia have the front so he starts to open the door so he can get in the back. All of a sudden we see the Cragle family mini-van backing down the driveway, at quite a very fast pace. George and I started laughing "Oh that Mrs. Cragle, what a jokester!" because she we figured she had to know we were there, we beeped for Amelia and we were, I mean..just.. THERE, but then as she is 3 feet away from plowing into my car I say "Oh shit, she's not stopping!" and with that I heard the horrible crunching of metal; which, might I add, is NOT a pleasant sound. My car was pushed back about a foot and the back of her van was on my now crinkled hood. (Supposedly the headlights were smashed too, and basically the whole front of the car, but I never got to get a good look at it because I refused to get out of the car.)
My mouth, of course, was totally open at this point because I was in complete shock. Then on came the tears. My Dad told me that if I was to get into an accident our car insurance would go up and he would take my license away for three years!Mrs. Cragle then got out of her car to make sure we were all okay. We all were fine, so was she, thankfully. I was at this point hunched over the steering wheel clutching it, bawling my eyes out. I took my license and threw it exclaiming "Goodbye license see you in three years" like an idiot. She called my parents and I thought they were going to kill me, but they were relatively calm. Mrs. Cragle claimed it was all her fault, although I should've beeped my horn as she was coming at me, I was just frozen once I realized she wasn't shopping. After I stopped bawling my mom took us all to pick up Lauren and go to band camp. We were only 18 minutes late. Everything is kinda okay though, I get to keep my license. The Cragle's insurance company is paying for the damage which is about 5 thousand dollars.
I am still really upset...kinda like depressed. I don't know I can't really explain it, I guess you wouldn't know unless you were in an accident like this. I'm not afraid to get back into a car again, but I don't really want to for the next few days. I'll get over it. It wasn't a horrible accident, just really shook me up I guess. I don't remember the last time I cried so much.
That MAJOR upside to this is that, because of the accident, my sister can't take the car back to school with her next week, so I get it for a while after it is fixed!
I'm sure I'll look back on this after my car is fixed and have a good laugh...just not right now. This is one to tell the grandkids haha!