ahhhh
i don't consider myself a bad driver. on the road, in actual driving situations, like changing lanes, moving in a straight line, yielding....i've never had trouble. my three accidents read like a list of what happened to a driving-age charlie brown on a bad day.
1) backs into stationary landscaping truck in an effort to reverse direction on circular road. too impatient to wait for tractor in middle of road to move. two houses away from own house and driveway.
damage: smashed up left rear, bashed headlight, a BS court summons, over $300 in fines.
2) rear-ends car full of angry RFH track team members at red light (which had definitely turned green, and i really think so, and i'm not crazy, but everyone else said red.) on the way to get sean a smoothie, after switching smoothie destinations. if we had gone to smoothie king, no accident, but that last minute planet smoothie decision determined our fates. if you were to ask me how that accident happened, i honestly, truly do not know. i don't remember how i ended up hitting that car. and that makes it a lot worse.
damage: none to my car, but the car in front of mine gets a little banged-up in the back. i get off easy with the cop, because i think he pities me after seeing me bawling to the point of hyperventilation ("my dad is gonna kill meeeeeeeeeeeee")
3) scrapes yellow pillar in goddamn philly parking garage in the stupidest parking job ever. thinks that the scratches on the side are just yellow paint, but apparently, there is more destruction than meets the eye.
damage: really just looks like a lot of yellow paint on one of my passenger doors.
my father, in response to accident #3 on my list of extremely low-speed catastrophes, has decreed that, unless i get a full-time job and pay him the $3000 he thinks it will take to fix this most recent damage, i lose all driving privileges.
i leave for school in about eight weeks, and i'm on vacation for one of those weeks. i figure that most of the summer jobs have been snatched this late into the season, and that very few businesses looking for full-time employees will hire a student who can offer seven weeks worth of work before leaving forever over a middle-aged residentforlife.
i don't think i've earned $3000 at all my jobs combined. i've never held $3000 in my hand or seen it written on a check.
i'm so screwed.
can't even be mad, because my father is a fairly reasonable man who will give me $20 to go get coffee if he knows that i'm broke.
i'm just so done. my summer is over. at least i could have had exciting, car-chase-like accidents instead of these spilled-my-coffee-broke-a-shoelace headaches.
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1) backs into stationary landscaping truck in an effort to reverse direction on circular road. too impatient to wait for tractor in middle of road to move. two houses away from own house and driveway.
damage: smashed up left rear, bashed headlight, a BS court summons, over $300 in fines.
2) rear-ends car full of angry RFH track team members at red light (which had definitely turned green, and i really think so, and i'm not crazy, but everyone else said red.) on the way to get sean a smoothie, after switching smoothie destinations. if we had gone to smoothie king, no accident, but that last minute planet smoothie decision determined our fates. if you were to ask me how that accident happened, i honestly, truly do not know. i don't remember how i ended up hitting that car. and that makes it a lot worse.
damage: none to my car, but the car in front of mine gets a little banged-up in the back. i get off easy with the cop, because i think he pities me after seeing me bawling to the point of hyperventilation ("my dad is gonna kill meeeeeeeeeeeee")
3) scrapes yellow pillar in goddamn philly parking garage in the stupidest parking job ever. thinks that the scratches on the side are just yellow paint, but apparently, there is more destruction than meets the eye.
damage: really just looks like a lot of yellow paint on one of my passenger doors.
my father, in response to accident #3 on my list of extremely low-speed catastrophes, has decreed that, unless i get a full-time job and pay him the $3000 he thinks it will take to fix this most recent damage, i lose all driving privileges.
i leave for school in about eight weeks, and i'm on vacation for one of those weeks. i figure that most of the summer jobs have been snatched this late into the season, and that very few businesses looking for full-time employees will hire a student who can offer seven weeks worth of work before leaving forever over a middle-aged residentforlife.
i don't think i've earned $3000 at all my jobs combined. i've never held $3000 in my hand or seen it written on a check.
i'm so screwed.
can't even be mad, because my father is a fairly reasonable man who will give me $20 to go get coffee if he knows that i'm broke.
i'm just so done. my summer is over. at least i could have had exciting, car-chase-like accidents instead of these spilled-my-coffee-broke-a-shoelace headaches.
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